linuxtrade(1)

NAME

linuxtrade - A stock tracking console with real-time

quotes

SYNOPSIS

linuxtrade [options] [symbols]

DESCRIPTION

There are a number of free and subscription streaming real

time quote services available on the web, such as scottrader.com

(free) and money.net (subscription). They offer visually slick

looking Java based applications which suffer from all the usual

problems: too big, requires a graphical user interface, requires

a web browser where Java actually works, can't save and replay

the data, etc. In addition, they are rarely designed to offer

convenient access to stock news and other information.

linuxtrade is a Curses (text-based) implementation of a

stock streamer application, plus additional features inspired by

the excellent MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own

set of unique features. linuxtrade is lightweight yet has all

the cool features: portfolios, real time quotes, charts with live

updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical indicators,

top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, option chains,

the Briefing.com In Play and Up/Downgrades lists, earnings,

splits and quiet period calendars, and Level 2 market depth indi

cations from the Archipelago and the Island ECN's.

linuxtrade currently supports scottrader.com, schwab.com,

money.net, quotemedia.com, sonictrading.com, and other streamer

servers; see the complete list below.

QUICK START

First, you should go to http://www.scottrader.com and sign

up for a free account. They will send you a password by email.

This takes only a minute or so.

Now, start up an xterm(1) or a gnome-terminal with as many

lines as will fit on your screen. Then run the application and

enter your password:

$ linuxtrade
Please sign up for your own FREE Scottrader account

at:

http://www/scottrader.com

Enter password (JPY9747 for demo): XXXNNNN

Now save these settings by pressing [P], then [c], and

then press [s] twice. If you entered a password that is not the

demo password, then you won't need to enter your password again.

NOTE: see sections Preferences and Changing Streamer Preferences

below.

Press [?] to popup the main help screen.

For more complete installation instructions, including

other packages you may need to install, please refer to the IN

STALLATION section at the end of this manual page.

COLOR MODES

LinuxTrade has 4 background color modes. You can set the

mode on the command line with the -c option or on the preferences

screen (press P). The color mode takes effect only when the ap

plication starts, so if you change it on the preferences screen,

save the preferences and then quit and restart. The default col

or mode is 3; the color modes are:

0 Force black background
1 Force white background
2 Use users 'dark-colored' xterm background
3 Use users 'light-colored' xterm background

SCREEN SIZE

LinuxTrade will work with an xterm size as small as 25x80.

However, much more information can be presented if the number of

lines or columns is increased.

Increasing the number of lines will allow you to see larg

er charts, more time and sales windows, the top 10 lists, and

news windows without obscuring the main quote display.

Increasing the number of columns to at least 86 will allow

you to see the percentage that the stock price has changed today.

Increasing the number of columns to at least 124 will al

low you to see your stock holdings and portofolio value without

having to use holdings mode.

Increasing the number of columns to at least 160 will al

low you see the time and sales windows on the right side of the

screen, while other information, such as a chart or a L2 book can

be shown on the left side of the screen.

HELP SCREEN

+-------------------------------- Help

---------------------------------+
| STOCK COMMANDS.................. INFO COM

MANDS...................
| a Add Symbol(s) c/C Popup Stock

Chart/LiveChart
| d Delete Symbol(s) e Popup Earnings

Calendar
| j/k Move cursor down/up g/G Browse all charts

in this list
| 0-9 Display stocklist # i Popup Fundamental

Info
| s# Save current list to list # I Popup Technical

Info
| S# Save current symbol to list# n Popup News
| A Set alerts for stock p/u Popup InPlay/Up

grades list
| ^A Clear alert, ^A^A clears all b/B Popup Archipela

go/Island Book
| H Show/don't show holdings l/L Popup L2 Book
| * ... by total or share cost o/O Popup/Browse Op

tion Chains
| # Enter holdings (shares,cost) M Popup NASDAQ 100

heatmap

| MARKET COMMANDS................. MISC COM

MANDS...................
| E/N/Q Show AMEX/NYSE/NASD top 10 P Change pass

word/preferences
| $/% ... by net/percent change U Upgrade this

software
| m Show Market Movers ^N/^P Switch to

next/prev streamer
| t Toggle Time & Sales windows ^R Restart current

streamer
| ^b Start broker browser W Record session to

file
| ^L Refresh screen q Quit/Quit popup
| :? Help for : extended commands F12 Print

+----------------- linuxtrade 3.51 by Rick Richardson

------------------+

Press [?] to popup the main help screen. Press any other

key to hide the popup. This complete manual page can also be

viewed from within linuxtrade using the extended command :man.

Each screen and function is described in the sections that

follow.

EXTENDED COMMANDS HELP SCREEN

+----------------------- Extended Commands Help

------------------------+
| :sort p|P|v|V|g|G|c|C|n|N Sort stocklist by

price/vol/gain/nam
| :<number> Switch to stocklist

<number> (1-99)
| :list [<string>] Switch to stocklist

name <string>
| :save [<number>] Save the stocklist as

<number>
| :label <string> Label the current

stocklist
| :comment <string> Add comment to current

stock
| :heatmap [etf|pmi|100] NASDAQ Heatmaps: ETF,

Premarket, 100
| :heatmap [market|heat|sector] Money.net heatmaps
| :carpet [sector|market|index] Stockcharts.com car

pets
| :carpet [fidelity|rydex|toronto] more Stockcharts.com

carpets
| :lc [<symbol>|all] Lycos.com LiveChart

Applet
| :pf [<symbol>|all] ProphetFinance Chart

Stream Applet
| :earnings [<symbol>] Display full earnings

info for stock
| :news/mnews/snews [<symbol>] Display news for <sym

bol>
| :onews Popup old (saved) news

window
| :halts Display NASDAQ trading

halts
| :pre / :after [<symbol>] Pre/after-mkt trades

for <symbol>
| :wc [<symbol>] Display web chart for

<symbol>
| :name [<symbol>] Full name for <symbol>
| :pe [<symbol>] P/E ratios for <sym

bol>
| :pivot [<symbol>] Pivots for <symbol>
| :players [@][<symbol>] Players/Components for

<symbol>
| :range [<symbol>] [<days>] Daily range for <sym

bol> <days>
| :shortint [<symbol>] Short interest for

<symbol>
| :ts [<symbol>] [0|1] T&S for <symbol>
| :whisper [<symbol>] Earnings whisper #'s

for <symbol>
| :arca [<symbol>] Display ARCA book for

<symbol>
| :island [<symbol>] Display Island book

for <symbol>
| :econ Briefing.com economic

calendar
| :ipo Alert!IPO upcoming

calendar
| :lookup <string> Lookup symbol for

<string>
| :mmid <string> Lookup full MM name

for <string>
| :qp ipo.com quiet period

calendar
| :splits Briefing.com splits

calendar
| :indexes Display all canonical

index syms
| :majors / :dow Display major indus

tries/dow stocks
| :spiders Display S&P select SP

DRS
| :wide / :Wide Same as 'g'/'G' but

wider charts
+----------------- linuxtrade 3.50 by Rick Richardson

------------------+

+----------------------- Extended Commands Help

------------------------+
| :ibdvol Get IBD unusual volume

list
| :bwkvol Get BWK unusual volume

list
| :frb Display Fed Reserve

Bank $$$ input
| :!<cmd> Fill stocklist 0 by

running <cmd>
| :clrcom Clear all comments in

this list
| :clralerts Clear all alerts in

this list
| :clrhold Clear all holdings in

this list
| :total Display total holdings

value
| :streamer <type> Switch to streamer

<type>
| :manualpage Display full manual

page

| :homepage Browse linuxtrade home

page
| :grouppage Browse linuxtrade

group page
| All commands and arguments may be abbreviated
+----------------- linuxtrade 3.50 by Rick Richardson

------------------+

Press [:] [?] to popup the extended commands help screen.

Note that any extended command can be abbreviated with the short

est substring that makes the command unique.

Each screen and function is described in the sections that

follow.

PREFERENCES

+----------------------------- Preferences

-----------------------------+
|streamer scottrader.com
|alert_mail demo@localhost
|colormode 3
|news_alerts 1
|alert_ext linuxtrade.audio
|alert_synth default
|top10_mkt Q
|top10_mode %
|showtotals 0
|print_cmd a2ps -q
|mouse 1
|fill_charts prophet.net
|web_charts stockcharts.com
|java_charts livecharts.com
|lc_user demo
|lc_pass demo
|lc_geom 700 x 350
|lc_opts 5,1,2
|pf_user Guest
|pf_pass Guest
|browser gnome-moz-remote --newwin %s
|broker_browser mozilla -P linuxtrade -width 400

-height 630
|broker_URL https://pb.schwab.com/dwp/loginwiz
|optchain_URL http://www.pcquote.com/op

tions/string.php?ticker=%s
|arca_host tools.tradearca.com
|arca_port 80
|island_host newgritch.island.com
|island_port 80
|island_URL /SERVICE/SQUOTE?STOCK=%s
|live_quotes 5
|inplay_URL http://www.briefing.com/dlj/inplay.htm
|inplay_poll 5
|inplay_alert 5
|updown_URL http://www.briefing.com/dlj/updown.htm
|updown_poll 5
|updown_alert 5
|splits_URL http://www.briefing.com/print/FreeSer

vices/fs_splits
|exthours_poll 15
|timezone US/Eastern

| c=Change f=Reset to Factory F=Reset All s=Save

q=Quit
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Press [P] to popup the Preferences screen. Use the [up]

and [down] arrow keys or the [j] and [k] keys to move the high

lighted line to the entry that you want to change, then press [c]

to change the line.

When editing the entry, use the [left] and [right] arrow

keys to move the cursor. Use [Backspace] to delete the character

to the left of the cursor. Use [Delete] to delete the character

under the cursor. Press [Enter] when you are done making

changes, or [Esc] to discard the changes.

Press [f] to reset the highlighted entry to its default

value. Press [F] to reset all entries to their default values.

Press [s] to permanently save your preferences, or [q] to

quit the popup without saving. These keys will also hide the

popup.

Passwords are normally obscured with asterisks. Press

[Ctrl] [p] to display passwords, and again to hide them.

Here is a description of the preference items that you can

change under normal circumstances. Changing the other prefer

ences might cause unusual behavior.

streamer This is the source of the streamer data.

Press the [c] key on this item to popup the Change Streamer

screen where you will be able to change the streamer source and

the username and password associated with it. This is fully de

scribed in the next section.

alert_mail This is the email address for alerts.

colormode See the COLOR MODES section above.

news_alerts This value controls news alerts on a global

basis. If the value is 0, then news alerts are completely dis

abled. If the value is 1, then news alerts are enabled on an in

dividual stock basis according to the settings in the news alerts

popup. If the value is 2, then news alerts are enabled for all

stocks in the current portfolio, regardless of what the setting

is for an individual stock.

alert_ext This is the name of a program to run in order

to deliver an external alert. The default is to use the

linuxtrade.audio script to play a speech synthesized alert mes

sage. However, an alternative program or script could be written

to deliver alerts many other ways, such as flashing the house

lights on and off using an x10 controller.

The external program will be passed 6 argu

ments on the command line. The arguments are: symbol name, last

trade, last volume, alert variable, comparsion operator, compari

son value.

alert_synth The voice synthesizer to use for voice

alerts.

top10_mkt This is the default market to display on the

top 10 list. A value of 'E' means to display the AMEX. A value

of 'N' means to display the NYSE. A value of 'Q' means to dis

play the NASDAQ.

top10_mode This is the default display format for the

top 10 list. A value of '%' means to display the top 10 percent

age gainers. A value of '$' means to display the top 10 net

gainers.

showtotal If non-zero, portfolio totals are continuous

ly displayed underneath the current stock list.

print_cmd This is the command line to use which will

print plain text to the print spooler. A command that can handle

overstrikes for bold and italics is preferred.

mouse A non-zero value enables mouse support.

fill_charts This is the source to use for backfilling the

charts displayed with the [c] command when not using the streamer

based charts. The source can be prophet.net, quote.com or

askresearch.com.

Some streamers, such as the schwab.com, esig

nal.com, and scottrader.com streamers, can also backfill charts.

Streamers that can backfill charts will have a usecharts streamer

preference item. Set usecharts to 1 to use the streamer to back

fill the charts.

web_charts This is the source to use for the printable

web browser chart pages displayed with the [g] and [G] commands.

The source can be stockcharts.com, quote.com, pcquote.com or

yahoo.com.

java_charts This is the source to use for Java live

charts displayed with the [C] command. The source can be

livecharts.com (a.k.a. finance.lycos.com), money.net, or two

types of chart applets from prophet.net.

lc_user This is the user name to use when logging in

to finance.lycos.com. This is needed if you want to get real

time updates with the Lycos LiveChart java applet which is dis

played with the [C] command.

lc_pass This is the password to use when logging into

finance.lycos.com.

lc_geom This is the desired applet geometry (width x

height) for the Lycos Live Chart java applet. The default is 700

x 350.

pf_user This is the user name to use when logging in

to prophet.net. This is needed if you want to get real time up

dates with the ChartStream java applet which is displayed with

the [C] command. It is also needed to get real time chart back

fills from prophet.net. If you don't have a subscription to

prophet.net, set the user name to Guest.

pf_pass This is the password to use when logging into

fBprophet.net.

browser This is the command line to use when starting

a new browser window.

broker_browser

This is the command line to use when starting

a small browser window for quickly accessing your brokers trading

website using the [Ctrl] [b] command.

broker_URL This is the URL of the brokers trading web

site. It is used in conjunction with the broker_browser prefer

ence. For the least amount of graphics bloat and quickest entry

of broker orders, use the brokers "web-clipping" (PDA, cell-phone

compatible) lightweight web page.

optchain_URL This is a URL to use when getting option

chains, for use with streamers that do not support option chains

themselves. This URL will be shown in your web browser.

inplay_poll This is the period in minutes between re

freshes of the briefing.com In Play list. A value of 0 disables

this feature.

live_quotes This is the period in seconds between updates

of the live quotes in any of the displayable web documents, such

as the In Play list or the Up/Downgrades list. A value of 0 dis

ables this feature.

inplay_alert This is the period in minutes between checks

of the briefing.com In Play list for new updates when the In Play

list isn't displayed. A value of 0 disables this feature. If the

In Play list changes, you are alerted by the red INPLAY indicator

that will appear at the top of the screen.

updown_poll This is the period in minutes between re

freshes of the briefing.com Up/downgrades list. A value of 0

disables this feature.

updown_alert This is the period in minutes between checks

of the briefing.com Up/downgrades list for new updates when the

Up/downgrades list isn't displayed. A value of 0 disables this

feature. If the Up/downgrades list changes, you are alerted by

the red UPDOWN indicator that will appear at the top of the

screen.

CHANGE STREAMER PREFERENCE

+--------------------------- Change Streamer

---------------------------+
|streamer scottrader.com
|username notneeded
|password XYZ7820
|hostname 63.240.138.21
|port 443

| c=Change f=Reset to Factory F=Reset All s=Save

q=Quit
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

LinuxTrade currently supports six streamer data sources;

see the table below for the list of supported streamers. From

the Preference screen, position the cursor on the streamer item

and press the [c] key to bring up the Change Streamer popup.

When the cursor is positioned on the streamer item, you

can use the [c] key or the [left] and [right] arrow keys to cycle

through the streamer data sources: none, scottrader.com, ameri

trade.com, datek.com (obsolete, use ameritrade), esignal.com,

freetrade.com, money.net, quotemedia.com, schwab.com, sonictrad

ing.com, moneyam.com(uk), and swissquote.ch.

Use the [up] and [down] arrow keys to move to the username

and password items. Press the [c] key to change these items to

your username and password.

Passwords are normally obscured with asterisks. Press

[Ctrl] [p] to display passwords, and again to hide them.

Finally, press the [s] key to save your username and pass

word and begin using this streamer as the data source. You will

then be returned to the Preferences popup. You should press the

[s] key there if you want to make this streamer your permanent

default streamer.

NOTE: When you enter your password for the money.net

streamer, LinuxTrade will immediately authenticate you and dis

play a hashed password in the encpasswd item. Under normal cir

cumstances, do not change this value.

Quick Streamer Change. From the main screen, you can use

[Ctrl] [n] to select the next streamer and [Ctrl] [p] to select

the previous streamer. Each time you press [Ctrl] [n] or [Ctrl]

[p] the streamer data source will change to the next or the pre

vious streamer that has been configured with a username and pass

word. This lets you switch to a backup streamer very quickly.

The extended command :streamer type can be used to switch to a

specific streamer as for the -t command line switch (below).

SUPPORTED STREAMERS

Here is a table of the LinuxTrade features which are sup

ported with each streamer.

------------------------------------------------------------------------Streamer Top Live Charts Info Option

News Cost

10 Quot Chains

------------------------------------------------------------------------scottrader.com Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Free
ameritrade.com No No na No na

No Free
esignal.com No Yes Yes No na

No (t)7.95
freetrade.com No No na No na

No (c)9.99
money.net No Yes na No na

No 14.95
moneyam.com(uk) No No Yes No na

No Free
quotemedia.com No Yes na No na

No (*)12.95
schwab.com Yes Yes Yes No na

Yes (c)Free
sonictrading.com No No na No na

No Free
swissquote.ch No Yes na No na

No Free
------------------------------------------------------------------------(*) Delayed quotes are free with simple registration.
(c) Must be a customer.
(t) Free trial.

MAIN SCREEN

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |LinuxTrade - [FreeStreaming5] LIST 1 01/02/2002

09:38:39 AM EST
|INPLAY UPDOWN
|STOCK TIME BID/SZ ASK/SZ LAST/SZ CHG HIGH

LOW VOL

|DJI 09:38:38 0.00 0 0.00 0 10005 0 -6.88 10038

10004 1022
|COMP 09:38:28 0.00 0 0.00 0 1962.9 0 12.52 1965.3

1961.0 0
|SPX 09:38:33 1146.0 0 1147.7 0 1147.0 0 -1.05 1150.0

1147.0 0
|CSCO 09:38:36 18.47 11 18.48 20 18.48 32 0.37 18.53

18.26 33477
|SUNW 09:38:36 12.57 10 12.59 10 12.57 68 0.27 12.64

12.50 20816
|INTC 09:38:36 31.85 50 31.88 10 31.87 7 0.42 31.95

31.73 23266
|MSFT 09:38:34 66.40 1 66.43 9 66.41 4 0.16 66.72

66.30 12722
|ORCL 09:38:35 13.91 15 13.94 25 13.93 89 0.12 13.99

13.80 22652
|JDSU 09:38:34 8.76 25 8.77 10 8.76 10 0.08 8.88

8.66 33940
|DELL 09:38:35 27.73 10 27.76 50 27.74 15 0.56 27.80

27.56 11280
|JNPR 09:38:36 19.18 1 19.20 6 19.20 23 0.25 19.26

19.07 4937
|CIEN 09:38:34 14.81 5 14.82 11 14.80 93 0.49 14.85

14.57 6864
|WCOM 09:38:33 14.29 50 14.30 10 14.30 128 0.22 14.41

14.26 12769
|GE 09:38:33 40.25 15 40.33 11 40.27 5 0.19 40.44

40.25 6764

|NASD Top 10 Volume NASD Top 10 Pct Gainers NASD Top

10 Pct Losers
|DIMEZ +0.00 34755 THTL +3.91 20 SWIR

-3.85 558
|JDSU +0.10 33938 MTMS +0.85 79 XNVA

-1.77 348
|CSCO +0.36 33376 QXLCD +1.49 1 IINT

-1.05 384
|BNKUZ +0.00 32938 SKYE +1.34 23 GVHR

-0.30 117
|GSBNZ +0.00 31940 MDLK +0.39 36 SYKE

-1.13 506
|CCPRZ +0.00 26278 BIKE +0.31 59 MPWG

-0.25 15
|INTC +0.43 23259 SEMX +0.27 10 DIAN

-5.76 1143
|ORCL +0.11 22629 ORCC +0.29 5 UTCI

-0.30 129
|SUNW +0.29 20745 EPMN +0.33 22 FCGI

-1.46 48
|MFNX +0.02 18115 MTLK +0.60 415 QVDX

-0.85 249
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

This is the main LinuxTrade screen. At the right of the

first line of the screen there is an indicator that shows when

the program is connected to the streamer server. If the indica

tor is a red X, then the program is attempting to connect to the

streamer. If the indicator is blue or green, then the program is

connected and the name of the server (e.g. FreeStreaming5) is

displayed.

The top center of the screen shows the stocklist that is

currently being displayed. There are 100 stocklists numbered

from 0 to 99. Stocklist 0 is a temporary stocklist which is pop

ulated from the command line or from various popups such as the

In Play data. Stocklists 1-9 are permanent stocklists which can

be selected with a single keystroke. Press the number keys [0]

to [9] to change the displayed stocklist. Press the [a] key to

add one or more stock symbols to the currently displayed list.

Press the [s] key twice to save the currently displayed list.

Press the [s] key and a list number [1] to [9] to save the cur

rently displayed list to a specific list number.

Stocklists 10-99 can be accessed using the extended com

mands :<number>, :save [<number>], and :list <name>.

On the second line of the screen are red INPLAY and UPDOWN

indicators. These appear when new information is available on

the In Play and Up/Downgrade popups.

The next several lines show real time quote information

for the stocks in the currently selected stocklist. The bid

size, ask size, and volume are all in units of 100's of shares.

Many of the other LinuxTrade operations work on the stock

that is currently highlighted. Use the [up] and [down] arrow

keys or the [j] and [k] keys to move the highlighted line to the

entry that you want to work with.

Press the [d] key twice to delete the stock that is high

lighted. Press the [D] key to delete stocks by entering their

names.

The extended command :label can be used to give a descrip

tion to a stocklist, such as :label Cup and Handle Stocks.

The extended command :comment can be used to attach short

notes to the currently highlighted stock, such as :comment

Possible Short

width is 140 columns or more, but the full comment for the current stock also appears on the message line at the bottom of the
screen. The :clrcom command can be used to clear out all comments in the current stocklist.
The extended command :sort can be used to sort the current

stocklist. Only the portion of the stocklist beginning with the

stock at the current cursor location is sorted. The argument

supplied to the :sort command selects the sorting criteria:

:sort p Sort by price lowest to highest
:sort P Sort by price highest to lowest
:sort v Sort by volume lowest to highest
:sort V Sort by volume highest to lowest
:sort g Sort by gain lowest to highest
:sort G Sort by gain highest to lowest
:sort c Sort by % change lowest to highest
:sort C Sort by % change highest to lowest
:sort n Sort symbol names alphabetically a to z
:sort N Sort symbol names alphabetically z to a

FIELD COLORS

If the bid or ask is higher than the previous bid or ask,

the bid or ask are displayed in blue or green.

If the bid or ask is lower than the previous bid or ask,

the bid or ask are displayed in red.

If the bid is greater than or equal to the daily high, the

stock symbol name is displayed in blue or green.

If the ask is less than or equal to the daily low, the

stock symbol name is displayed in red.

If a new daily high or low is reached, the high or low is

displayed in orange.

QUOTE TREND

The quote trend indicates the direction of the last 5 or

more quote updates the program has received. If the terminal

window is 80 columns wide, only the last 5 direction indicators

will be displayed, but if the terminal window is wider than 80

columns you will see a longer period of trend data.

A colored symbol is added at the left while the trend

scrolls to the right.

If last sale is higher than the previous sale, a green +

sign is added.

If last sale is lower than the previous sale, a red - sign

is added.

If last sale is the same as the previous sale, an equals

(=) sign is added with the color of the most recent + or - sign.

TOP 10

The final ten lines of the main display show the Top 10

stocks by volume, gains, and losses. Press the [E] key to select

the AMEX Top 10. Press the [N] key to select the NYSE Top 10.

Press the [Q] key to select the NASDAQ Top 10. Press the [%] key

to display the gainers and losers by percentage. Press the [$]

key to display the net gainers and losers.

HOLDINGS MODE

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |STOCK TIME SHARES TOTCOST GAIN LAST CHG

HIGH LOW ..

|DJI 12:50:00[ 0] 0.00 0.00 10130 56.46

10152 10052 ..
|COMP 12:50:00 0 0.00 0.00 2026.3 47.04

2031.3 1987.1 ..
|SPX 12:50:06 0 0.00 0.00 1158.0 3.36

1161.9 1154.0 ..
|CSCO 12:50:14 100 10.00 2015.00 20.25 1.02

20.26 19.50 ..
|SUNW 12:50:13 100 2000.00 -653.90 13.46 0.42

13.53 13.16 ..
|INTC 12:50:14 800 10000.00 17976.00 34.97 1.97

35.00 33.40 ..
|MSFT 12:50:14 100 500.00 6374.10 68.74 1.70

68.94 67.09 ..
|ORCL 12:50:14 200 5000.00 -1980.00 15.10 1.12

15.13 14.10 ..
|JDSU 12:50:11 300 4242.00 -1392.00 9.50 0.37

9.68 9.22 ..
|DELL 12:50:14 400 6900.00 4660.00 28.90 1.40

29.05 27.61 ..
|JNPR 12:50:14 100 300.00 1897.00 21.97 1.18

22.12 21.09 ..
|CIEN 12:50:14 500 6789.00 961.00 15.50 -0.09

16.05 15.32 ..
|WCOM 12:50:14 100 5426.00 -3988.00 14.38 -0.12

14.75 14.33 ..
|GE 12:50:08 50 2500.00 -482.50 40.35 -0.60

40.92 40.15 ..
|+-----------------------------Holdings Data En

try--------------------|| Enter the number of shares in your portfolio and the

total cost of
|| those shares in the SHARES and TOTCOST fields. Use the

arrow keys,
|| tab, space, or enter to move between the SHARES and the

TOTCOS
|| fields. Enter short positions using a negative TOT

COST. To enter
|| by cost per share, type '*<cost-per-share>' in the TOT

COST field.

|| Press 'q' to quit or 's' to save and quit.
|+--------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Holdings mode allows you to see the net gains and losses

for stocks that you hold in your portfolio. You can switch to

view your holdings at any time by pressing the [H] key. Press

the [H] key a second time to return to the normal display. NOTE:

If you have a wide screen display, your holdings are always dis

played and holdings mode won't be needed or available.

Press the [*] key to change the holdings display to show

the per-share cost instead of the total cost of the position.

Press the [#] key to enter your portfolio holdings. For

each stock, you can enter the number of shares that you own and

the total cost of those shares. Use the arrow keys, [Tab],

[Space], and [Enter] keys to move between the fields on the data

entry screen.

Prefix an amount with [*] to specify the per-share cost,

or with [=] to specify the total cost, regardless whether the

display is in TOTCOST or SHRCOST modes.

When you are done entering your holdings, press the [s]

key to save the data permanently. Note that your holdings data

is associated with a particular stock list.

The extended command :clrhold can be used to clear (zero)

all holdings in the current stock list.

The extended command :total will display the current total

value of your holdings at the bottom of the screen. The

showtotals preference will cause the totals to be continuously

displayed underneath the current stock list.

SYMBOL LOOKUP

+-----------------------------Symbol

Lookup-----------------------------+

|Symbol Name Market

Type

|NXTV Next Level Communications Inc Nas

daqNM Stock
|NEXAF.PK Next PLC PNK

Stock
|NGMC.OB Next Generation Media Corporation OTC BB

Stock
|NGTH.OB Next Generation Technology Holdings In OTC BB

Stock
|NM.V Next Millennium Commercial Corp Vancou

ver Stock
|NPTK.PK NextPath Technologies Inc PNK

Stock
|NXCD.OB NextCard Inc OTC BB

Stock

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ The extended command :lookup can be used to lookup a sym

bol given the portion of the corporation name listed on the com

mand line. A popup window will appear with a table of the sym

bols that might be associated with that name. The example above

was produced with the command :lookup next. Note that all of the

symbol names might not be supported by the streamer that is cur

rently selected. Use the arrow keys, [PageUp], [PageDown],

[Home] and [End] to move through the list. Press the [q] key to

hide the popup.

The extended command :name will lookup the full corpora

tion name for the current symbol, or optionally the symbol name

listed on the command line.

OPTION SYMBOLS

Option symbols can be streamed by the Scottrader, Ameri

trade, Datek, eSignal, Freetrade, Money.net, and Schwab stream

ers. There is no universal naming convention for option symbols.

Since LinuxTrade supports multiple streamers, it is necessary to

have a consistent naming system for option symbols so you can

switch between streamers and not have to change option symbols.

Option symbols are entered in a canonical format, which is

the option root and the two letter expiration and strike price

code followed by a trailing period (.). For example, the canoni

cal symbol for Intel Sept. 20 calls is `NQID.'.

INDEX SYMBOLS

There is no universal naming convention for index symbols.

Since LinuxTrade supports multiple streamers, it is necessary to

have a consistent naming system for index symbols so you can

switch between streamers and not have to change index symbols.

To allow that, LinuxTrade maps a set of canonical index symbols

to the actual symbols that the streamer uses. Here is the table

of canonical symbols to use for getting index quotes.

-------------------------------------------------------------Index Canonical scottrader

money

Symbol .com

.net

-------------------------------------------------------------Dow Jones Industrial Average $DJI DJI

INDU
Dow Jones Transport Average $DJT TRAN

.DJTA
Dow Jones Utilities Average $DJU DJU

.DJUA
NYSE Composite $NYA NYA

.NYA
NASDAQ Composite $COMP COMP

COMPX
NASDAQ 100 $NDX NDX

.NDX
S & P 500 $SPX SPX

SPX
S & P 100 $OEX OEX

.OEX
S & P 400 Mid Cap $MID MID

.MID
S & P 400 Small Cap $SML SML

.SML
S & P Retail $RLX RLX

.RLX
AMEX Airline $XAL XAL

.XAL
AMEX Biotechnology $BTK BTK

.BTK
AMEX Broker/Dealer $XBD XBD

.XBD
AMEX Composite $XAX XAX

.XAX
AMEX Computer Technology $XCI XCI

.XCI
AMEX Internet $IIX IIX

.IIX
AMEX Networking $NWX NWX

.NWX
AMEX Oil $XOI XOI

.XOI
AMEX Pharmaceutical $DRG DRG

.DRG
AMEX Telecommunications $XTC XTC

.XTC
GSTI Computer Software $GSO GSO

.GSO
Russell 1000 $RUI RUI

.RUI
Russell 2000 $RUT RUT

.RUT
Russell 3000 $RUA RUA

.RUA
Philly Bank $BKX BKX

.BKX
Philly Gold & Silver $XAU XAU

.XAU
Philly Oil Services $OSX OSX

.OSX
Philly Semiconductor $SOX SOX

.SOX
Wireless Telecom $YLS YLS

.YLS
Disk Drives $DDX DDX

.DDX
Internets $DOT DOT

.DOT
30-Year T-Bond Yield $TYX TYX

.TYX
NYSE Short Term Trading $TRIN TRIN

.TRIN
NYSE Issues Up/Down $TICK TICK

.TICK
CBOE Gold $GOX GOX

.GOX
CBOE Implied Volatilty $VIX VIX

.VIX
NAS 100 Volatilty $VXN VXN

.VXN
NASDAQ Futures $NQ n/a

n/a
S&P 500 Futures $ES n/a

n/a
-------------------------------------------------------------

The extended command :indexes will display a stocklist

with all of the canonical index symbols, assuming your display

has enough lines on it to display this long list (70 or more

lines are needed). Other index symbols may be added to the

canonical list by emailing a request.

STOCK CHART

+----------------------------- Chart Help

------------------------------+
| CHART COMMANDS.................. + Increase chart

duration
| 1 1 Minute Chart - Decrease chart

duration
| 2 5 Minute Chart <-- Scroll left
| 3 10 Minute Chart --> Scroll right
| 4 Hourly Chart HOME Scroll to begin

ning
| 5 Daily Chart END Scroll to end
| 6 Weekly Chart ^L Refresh screen
| p Display pivot

points
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

+-------------------------INTC Daily [2

Months]

| ||
| . . . . . . . . ||| | |

|| . 32.86
| |
| |

31.45
| |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . 28.57
|
|
|
| . | . . . . . . . . . .

. . 24.29
| |

| . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . 20.00
|10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12

12 12
|05 11 17 23 29 02 08 14 20 27 03 07 13 19

26 31

914767

762306

609845

457383

304922

152461
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can popup a candlestick chart for a stock. Highlight

the stock of interest in the Main Screen, then press the [c] key

to bring up the charts popup. Then press the [?] key to popup

up help on charts. NOTE: Charts look best when displayed in a

terminal emulator with a lot of lines.

Press the [1] thru [6] keys to change the sample period of

the chart from 1 minute to weekly. Press the [+] and [-] keys to

increase or decrease the duration of the chart.

Use the [left] [right] [Home] and [End] keys to scroll

long duration charts left and right.

Press the [q] key to hide the chart popup.

One minute, five minute, and 10 minute charts have a live

chart update feature that is activated whenever the chart is po

sitioned at the end of the displayable data. New trades are au

tomatically added to the chart, making the chart dynamically

change as time advances.

Press the [p] key to display the pivot points for the

stock.

JAVA CHARTS

The [C] key will display a finance.lycos.com LiveChart, a

prophet.net ChartStream Java applet, or a money.net ChartStream

Java applet for the current stock, depending on the setting of

the java_charts preference.

You must set the lc_user and lc_pass preferences and/or

the pf_user and pf_pass preferences and/or configure the mon

ey.net streamer with a valid login name in order to get real time

chart updates, otherwise the charts will be delayed. You must

also have a Java SDK (see INSTALLATION below).

The extended commands :lc, :mn, and :pf can be used to

start a LiveChart or one of the ChartStream applets without re

gard to the setting of the java_charts preference. An optional

stock symbol may be passed to these commands to bring up a chart

for that symbol, otherwise the current symbol is the stocklist is

used.

WEB CHARTS

The [g] and [G] keys will use your web browser to display

a page with stock charts of all of the symbols in the current

stocklist in a format that is easily printed. The web_charts

preference controls the source for these charts. The [g] key

will display intraday charts (if available from the selected

source), and the [G] key will display two month charts.

The extended commands :wide and :Wide are similar to the

[g] and [G] commands except that the displayed charts are wider

(typically two days for :wide and 6 months for :Wide).

The extended command :wc will display an intraday and 6

month chart for just the current symbol. An optional stock symbol

may be passed to this command to bring up a chart for that symbol

rather than the current symbol.

MISCELLANEOUS DATA

Several extended commands are available to retrieve mis

cellaneous data for either the current stock symbol, or the op

tional symbol listed on the end of the extended command.

-------------------------------------------------------------------Command Description and Example -------------------------------------------------------------------:pe P/E ratios

INTC: P/E: 63.20, Price/Book: 3.44,

Price/Sales: 4.73

:pivot Pivot points

INTC P=17.91 S1=17.57 S2=17.27 R1=18.21

R2=18.55

:range Average daily trading range

INTC: Avg. Daily Range = $1.28 (based on 7

days)

:shortint Most recently reported short interest

INTC: Short: 57.6M (0.93%), Float: 6.20B,

AveVol: 68.5M

:whisper Earnings whisper numbers

INTC: Estimated: 0.13, Whisper: 0.13

-------------------------------------------------------------------

NEWS HEADLINES

+---------------------------- INTC News

--------------------------------+
|12/31/01 15:52 Private Gifts Dropped in 2001
|12/19/01 16:31 Mattson Technology Appoints Chief Execu

tive Officer; Dav
|12/19/01 13:33 FabTime Donates Cycle Time Management

Software to Arizon
|12/19/01 11:01 Samsung Life Insurance to Focus On Intel

Based Solutions
|12/19/01 08:08 JAMDAT Mobile Launches "Gladiator II:

Quest for Freedom"
|12/17/01 18:15 Palm Chooses TI As Chip Supplier
|12/17/01 08:04 Sony Online Entertainment and Intel Team

Up to Bring Gam
|12/14/01 18:59 Jury Rules Against Intel

| Use the up/down arrows to select an article, then press

enter to view
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can popup the most recent news headlines for a stock.

Highlight the stock of interest in the Main Screen, then press

the [n] key.

Use the arrow keys, [PageUp], [PageDown], [Home] and [End]

to move through the list. Press the [q] key to hide the news

popup.

You can also use the extended command :news to popup the

window. An optional stock symbol can be supplied with the com

mand, otherwise the current stock is used.

LinuxTrade uses a default ``main'' news source for most

news. However, some streamers may also support streaming news.

Those streamers have a preference usenews associated with them

which can be set to 1 to use the streamer as the primary news

source.

The extended commands :mnews and :snews can be used to

force use of either the main news source, or the streamer news

source.

NEWS ARTICLE

+------------------------------ Article

--------------------------------+
| Jury Rules Against Intel

| AP Online, Friday, December 14, 2001 at

18:59
|SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A federal jury ruled against In

tel Corp.
|on Friday in a $82 million patent infringement suit

against rival
|chip-maker Broadcom Corp.
| The case, originally filed in August 2000, involved two

patents
|related to networking and video processing.
| ``We're pleased the jury clearly recognized our prod

ucts don't
|infringe on the Intel products,'' said Bill Blanning,

spokesman for
|Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom.
| Intel has not yet decided whether to appeal, spokesman

Chuck
|Mulloy said.
| ``Clearly, we're disappointed in the jury's verdict,''

he said.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can read a news article. Highlight the headline of in

terest and then press the [Enter] key. Press the [q] key to hide

the news article and return to the news headlines.

SAVED NEWS

+---------------------------- Saved News

-------------------------------+
|hot 09/23 18:41 *DJ AMP: Chmn To Oversee CEO Search,

Step Down 6 Mo L^
|hot 09/23 18:40 *DJ AMP: Interim CEO To Be Andrew Mohl
|hot 09/23 18:39 DJ PEC Solutions/Gov Pact-3: Part Of

Group Assigned T
|inpla 09/23 18:35 Boeing team awarded $273 mln contract

(BA)
|hot 09/23 18:39 *DJ AMP: To Consider Internal, External

Replacements
|hot 09/23 18:38 *DJ Australia's AMP CEO To Leave Compa

ny
|hot 09/23 18:38 DJ PEC Solutions/Gov Pact -2: Gets Pact

Via Vector Re
|GE 09/23 18:36 ...GOOD "FORTUNE"Retired General Elec

tric [GE] chairm
|hot 09/23 18:36 DJ First Banks Amer/First Banks -2:

Agreed To Merger
|hot 09/23 18:36 PRESS RELEASE: Williams Sells Alliance

Pipeline Inter

| Use the up/down arrows to select an article, press enter

to view it v
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

LinuxTrade supports streaming news on some streamers.

Streaming news will appear on the MAIN screen below the stock

lists, with the most recent headline at the top. These headlines

will not be displayed on a narrow display if the market mover

display is turned on.

The most recent 300 headlines are also saved for future

display. Use the :onews extended command to popup the old

(saved) news window.

Use the arrow keys, [PageUp], [PageDown], [Home] and [End]

to move through the list. Press the [q] key to hide the news

popup.

Highlight the headline of interest and then press the

[Enter] key to display the article associated with the headline.

FUNDAMENTAL INFORMATION

+--INTC------------------------INTEL

CORP

|Last: 32.00 Last Tick: Down $ Change: +0.55 Share

sOut: 6,725,000
|Kid: 32.03 PrevClose: 31.45 % Change: +1.752 An

nualDiv: $0.08
|Ask: 32.04 BxA Size: 34x25 LastSize: 100 Div.

Paid: 11/30/01
|High: 32.29 BxA Exch: QxQ Time: 10:30:36 LastQ

EPS: $0.10
|Low: 31.73 52wk High: 38.59 Exch: Q CurrQ

EPS: $0.10
|Vol: 10,035,700 52wk Low: 18.96 Yield: 0.250% PE Ra

tio: 42.107
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|CALCS
|High Date: 01/31/2001 Moving avg [ 9 day]:

32.260
|High Price: 38.59 Moving avg [ 14 day]:

32.750
|Low Date: 09/21/2001 Moving avg [ 21 day]:

32.940
|Low Price: 18.96 Moving avg [ 50 day]:

30.310
|Closing Price [Week]: 32.24 Moving avg [100 day]:

27.730
|Closing Price [Mon.]: 31.45 Moving avg [200 day]:

28.250
|Closing Price [Qtr.]: 31.45 Avg Volume [ 22 day]:

38,738,304
|Closing Price [Year]: 31.45 Avg Volume [100 day]:

48,756,011
|YTD Rate of Return: 0.000 Volatility [ 20 day]:

39.140
|Last Updated: 01/01/2002 Volatility [180 day]:

53.120
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|VOLATILITY
|Call Implied Vol.: 0.4656 Put Implied Vol.:

0.4628
| 1 Mo. Volatility: 0.3864 7 Mo. Volatility:

0.5203
| 2 Mo. Volatility: 0.4044 8 Mo. Volatility:

0.5115
| 3 Mo. Volatility: 0.4724 9 Mo. Volatility:

0.6064
| 4 Mo. Volatility: 0.5632 10 Mo. Volatility:

0.6354
| 5 Mo. Volatility: 0.5450 11 Mo. Volatility:

0.6331
| 6 Mo. Volatility: 0.5312 12 Mo. Volatility:

0.0000
|Last Updated: 01/01/2002
+-----------------------------COMMON

STOCK

You can popup fundamental information for a stock. High

light the stock of interest in the Main Screen, then press the

[i] key. Press the [q] key to hide the fundamental information

popup.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

+--INTC------------------------INTEL

CORP

|Last: 32.00 Last Tick: Down $ Change: +0.55 Share

sOut: 6,725,000
|Kid: 32.03 PrevClose: 31.45 % Change: +1.752 An

nualDiv: $0.08
|Ask: 32.04 BxA Size: 34x25 LastSize: 100 Div.

Paid: 11/30/01
|High: 32.29 BxA Exch: QxQ Time: 10:30:36 LastQ

EPS: $0.10
|Low: 31.73 52wk High: 38.59 Exch: Q CurrQ

EPS: $0.10
|Vol: 10,035,700 52wk Low: 18.96 Yield: 0.250% PE Ra

tio: 42.107
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|CALCS
|High Date: 01/31/2001 Moving avg [ 9 day]:

32.260
|High Price: 38.59 Moving avg [ 14 day]:

32.750
|Low Date: 09/21/2001 Moving avg [ 21 day]:

32.940
|Low Price: 18.96 Moving avg [ 50 day]:

30.310
|Closing Price [Week]: 32.24 Moving avg [100 day]:

27.730
|Closing Price [Mon.]: 31.45 Moving avg [200 day]:

28.250
|Closing Price [Qtr.]: 31.45 Avg Volume [ 22 day]:

38,738,304
|Closing Price [Year]: 31.45 Avg Volume [100 day]:

48,756,011
|YTD Rate of Return: 0.000 Volatility [ 20 day]:

39.140
|Last Updated: 01/01/2002 Volatility [180 day]:

53.120
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|VOLATILITY
|Call Implied Vol.: 0.4656 Put Implied Vol.:

0.4628
| 1 Mo. Volatility: 0.3864 7 Mo. Volatility:

0.5203
| 2 Mo. Volatility: 0.4044 8 Mo. Volatility:

0.5115
| 3 Mo. Volatility: 0.4724 9 Mo. Volatility:

0.6064

| 4 Mo. Volatility: 0.5632 10 Mo. Volatility:

0.6354
| 5 Mo. Volatility: 0.5450 11 Mo. Volatility:

0.6331
| 6 Mo. Volatility: 0.5312 12 Mo. Volatility:

0.0000
|Last Updated: 01/01/2002
+-----------------------------COMMON

STOCK

You can popup technical information for a stock. High

light the stock of interest in the Main Screen, then press the

[I] key. Press the [q] key to hide the technical information

popup.

ALERTS

+---------------------------- INTC Alerts

------------------------------+

| Alert Actions | Type Op Value xTerm Mail

Ext Enabled

| [news] [=] [ 0.00] [X] [ ] [

] [X]
| [ ask] [>] [ 34.00] [X] [X] [

] [ ]
| [ bid] [<] [ 33.01] [X] [ ] [

] [ ]
| [last] [=] [ 32.31] [X] [ ]

[X] [ ]

|a Alert on ask price NUM Set alert value
|b Alert on bid price +/- Increase/Decrease

value by 5%
|l Alert on last price <--/--> Increase/De

crease by 0.01
|01 Alert on high price t Display alert on

terminal
|L Alert on low price m Send email alert
|v Alert on volume x Send External

alert
|n Alert on new news e Enable current

alert
|< Alert on less than value d/DEL Delete current

alert
|= Alert on equal to value s Save and quit

alert screen
|> Alert on more than value q/Esc Quit alert

screen
|p Set 4 alerts based on pivots
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can set alerts for a stock. Highlight the stock of

interest in the Main Screen, then press the [A] key to bring up

the Alerts popup.

Now, use the arrow keys to highlight one of the four alert

entries.

Next, press the [a] [b] [l] [H] [L] or [v] keys to select

an alert on the ask, bid, low, high, or volume value. The Value

column will be automatically filled in with the current value for

that parameter.

Next, press the [<] [=] or [>] keys to select the compari

son operator.

Next, adjust the value. Use the [+] or [-] keys to in

crease or decrease the current value by 5%. Use the [left] or

[right] keys to increase or decrease the current value by 0.01.

Or, use the number keys to enter a specific value.

Next, select the type of alert action(s) that you want.

Press the [t] key to toggle on-terminal (on-screen) alerts on or

off. Press the [m] key to toggle email alerts on or off. Make

sure that your email address is properly set in the Preferences

popup. Press the [x] key to select alert delivery by an external

program (see Preferences).

Finally, enable the alert by using the [e] key to toggle

the enabled status.

You can enter news alerts similarly. Press the [n] key to

set a new news alert. There is no need to select an operator or

a value for a news alert. If new news for a stock becomes avail

able while LinuxTrade is running, you will be alerted.

Press the [s] key to permanently save these alerts and

hide the alert popup. Press the [q] or [Esc] keys to make the

current set of alerts temporary and hide the alert popup.

Press the [d] key to clear and delete the current alert

entry.

NOTE: Alerts are active only on the stocklist that is dis

played. This will be changed to include all stocks in all lists

in a future version of LinuxTrade.

When you are on the main stock screen and a screen alert

occurs, press the [Ctrl] [a] keys to clear the alert condition.

Press them twice to clear all alerts.

The extended command :clralerts can be used to remove all

alerts in the current stock list.

PIVOT POINT ALERTS

On the alert popup, press the [p] key to set five alerts

from the stock pivot points.

pp = (high + low + close) / 3;
r1 = (2*pp) - low;
s1 = (2*pp) - high;
r2 = pp + (r1 - s1);
s2 = pp - (r1 - s1);

QUICK ALERTS

You can quickly set high and low last price alert triggers

from the main screen. Press [Ctrl] [t] and then enter the symbol

name and the high and low alert triggers.

Alternatively, press [Ctrl] [f] and then enter the symbol

name and the high and low alert triggers.

The difference is that triggers entered with [Ctrl] [f]

will follow the www.trendfund.com 10 AM rule, where the trigger

will be automatically adjusted before 10AM.

ARCHIPELAGO BOOK

+--INTC---------------------Intel

Corporation

|Inside: 1 BidSize: 3000 Inside: 1 AskSize:

16

|MMID Time BidSize BidPrice MMID Time

AskSize AskPrice

|REDI 18:26:41 3000 31.75 ISL 18:36:06

16 31.74
|ISL 18:05:41 1000 31.71 ELF 18:27:11

98 31.75
|ISL 17:37:26 3900 31.70 REDI 18:38:04

800 31.76
|ISL 18:07:31 1000 31.68 ISL 18:39:01

100 31.79
|REDI 18:29:44 3000 31.65 REDI 18:08:07

1935 31.80
|ELF 17:19:08 9000 31.62 ISL 18:24:11

100 31.82
|ELF 15:58:26 1000 31.61 ISL 17:25:33

200 31.83
|ISL 16:55:51 3500 31.61 REDI 16:21:15

1500 31.84
|REDI 17:22:08 2300 31.60 REDI 17:08:40

1000 31.85
|ELF 15:46:09 1000 31.55 ISL 18:30:46

400 31.85
|REDI 16:20:31 300 31.53 ELF 16:08:16

1700 31.90
|ISL 16:14:41 1000 31.51 REDI 16:36:59

2500 31.90
|ISL 16:47:53 300 31.50 ISL 16:08:26

200 31.92
|REDI 17:08:23 1000 31.50 REDI 16:12:55

100 31.92
|ISL 16:00:22 2000 31.49 ISL 11:07:06

100 31.94
|34 more 19 more
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can see the Archipelago book for a stock. Highlight

the stock of interest in the Main Screen, then press the [b] key

to display the book. The left side of the screen shows buyers,

and the right side of the screen shows sellers. The MMID indi

cates which ECN the order comes from; ISL is for the Island book,

REDI is for the RediBook, and ELF is for the Archipelago book.

The colored horizontal bar at the top of the display gives

an indication of the total number of shares being offered. With

in the bar there is a vertical line. The line moves towards the

right side of the screen if there are more buyers than sellers.

ISLAND BOOK

+--INTC------------------------------------------------------Island

L2

|Inside: 1 BidSize: 171 Inside: 1 AskSize:

16

|BidSize BidPrice AskSize AskPrice Last Match | 171 25.41 16 25.43 25.40

19:23:45
| 1,777 25.40 200 25.45
| 1,000 25.34 40 25.45 Orders:

20,224
| 400 25.33 60 25.45 Volume:

6,440,555
| 100 25.33 250 25.48 As of:

19:28:47
| 3,000 25.33 100 25.50
| 1,000 25.25 200 25.50
| 300 25.24 400 25.52
| 2,000 25.23 200 25.58
| 500 25.13 100 25.59
| 300 25.08 1,000 25.62
| 100 24.94 300 25.63
| 100 24.92 100 25.63
| 300 24.84 1,000 25.63
| 400 24.84 11 25.64
|... 124 more ... ... 261 more ...
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can also see the Island book for a stock. Highlight

the stock of interest in the Main Screen, then press the [B] key

to display the book. The left side of the screen shows buyers,

and the middle of the screen shows sellers. The Last Match col

umn shows the last sale that was completed on the Island ECN.

The colored horizontal bar at the top of the display gives

an indication of the total number of shares being offered. With

in the bar there is a vertical line. The line moves towards the

right side of the screen if there are more buyers than sellers.

OPTION CHAINS

+-------------------------INTC Option

Chains----------------------------+
|DATE STRIKE CALLS LAST CHG VOL OPEN PUTS LAST

CHG VOL OPEN

|Mar02 15.00 NQCC 17.80 pc 0 93 NQOC 0.00

pc 0 80
|Mar02 17.50 NQCW 0.00 pc 0 0 NQOW 0.00

pc 0 0
|Mar02 20.00 NQCD 11.50 +0.30 18 99 NQOD 0.00

pc 0 0
|Mar02 22.50 NQCX 9.20 pc 0 196 NQOX 0.05

pc 0 99
|Mar02 25.00 INQCE 6.60 +0.70 45 1012 INQOE 0.10

pc 0 11000
|Mar02 27.50 INQCY 4.20 +0.30 197 2642 INQOY 0.05

pc 0 18642
|Mar02 30.00 INQCF 1.65 +0.55 1036 25912 INQOF 0.05

-0.10 207 72185
|Mar02 32.50 INQCZ 0.05 -- 123 43378 INQOZ 0.90

-0.70 2394 45571
|Mar02 35.00 INQCG 0.05 -- 102 58104 INQOG 3.30

-0.50 398 13867
|Mar02 37.50 INQCU 0.05 pc 0 9119 INQOU 6.40

pc 0 1266
|Mar02 40.00 INQCH 0.05 pc 0 4704 INQOH 8.60

pc 0 224
|Mar02 42.50 INQCV 0.05 pc 0 39 INQOV 0.00

pc 0 0
|Mar02 45.00 INQCI 0.00 pc 0 10 INQOI 0.00

pc 0 0
|Mar02 47.50 INQCW 0.00 pc 0 0 INQOW 0.00

pc 0 19
|Mar02 50.00 INQCJ 0.00 pc 0 0 INQOJ 0.00

pc 0 65
|MaxHurt = 32.50

v
+---------------------from cboe.com - exchange

E------------------------+

You can get a list of the option symbols for a stock.

Highlight the stock of interest in the Main Screen, then press

the [o] key to display the option symbols. The left side of the

screen shows the calls, the right side of the screen shows the

puts.

Use the arrow keys, [PageUp], [PageDown], [Home] and [End]

to move through the list. Press the [q] key to hide the popup.

The option chains popup features a live quote feature.

Quotes for each option on the display are updated every 60 sec

onds.

EXTERNAL OPTION CHAINS

If the currently selected streamer doesn't support option

chains, you can use the [O] key to display option chains for the

current stock using your web browser.

TIME AND SALES

+---------CSCO---------++---------SUNW---------++---------INTC---------+ | 18.52 3200 12:29:25|| 12.76 15000 12:29:10|| 32.14

100 12:29:13
| 18.51 1000 12:29:27|| 12.77 200 12:29:12|| 32.14

300 12:29:15
| 18.50 4400 12:29:29|| 12.77 1500 12:29:18|| 32.17

15000 12:29:23
| 18.51 20000 12:29:31|| 12.76 100 12:29:20|| 32.15

100 12:29:27
| 18.50 8000 12:29:36|| 12.76 3500 12:29:25|| 32.15

100 12:29:32
| 18.50 1000 12:29:38|| 12.76 8600 12:29:29|| 32.15

800 12:29:34
| 18.49 200 12:29:41|| 12.76 1800 12:29:40|| 32.14

700 12:29:40
| 18.49 400 12:29:43|| 12.76 200 12:29:42|| 32.15

900 12:29:42
+----------------------++----------------------++----------------------+

Press the [t] key to turn the display of the Time and

Sales window for the current stock on or off.

Press the [T] key to turn the display of the Time and

Sales windows for all stocks on or off.

The Time and Sales windows show all trades for each se

lected stock in the stocklist, up to as many stocks as will fit

on the screen. If you want more stocks displayed, simply use a

terminal emulator with more lines or columns. The volume is

shown in shares, not lots.

The color of each line indicates something about the sale.

Reverse blue Reverse green At or above daily

high
Blue Green At or above current

ask
Red Red At or below current

bid
Reverse red Reverse red At or below daily

low

MARKET MOVERS

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |New Daily Lows........ New Daily

Highs.......

|NVDA 66.00 -0.90 SBLU 4.22

+0.18
|AKAM 5.83 -0.11 RJR 56.80

+0.50
|GR 25.60 -1.02 MADGF 0.58

+0.13
|BSX 22.54 -1.58 SBLU 4.24

+0.20
|AKAM 5.82 -0.12 DIMEZ 0.20

+0.05
|NVDA 65.97 -0.93 IMDS 0.50

+0.02
|NVDA 65.96 -0.94 ASCL 4.19

+0.14
|AKAM 5.80 -0.14 SYY 26.05

-0.17
|PCP 26.74 -1.51 VTA 8.26

+0.26
|NVDA 65.95 -0.95 CEI 18.38

+0.27
|NVDA 65.94 -0.96 MADGF 0.59

+0.14
|WEN 28.95 -0.22 BWEB 1.69

+0.34
|TOY 19.55 -1.19 PAR 5.65

+0.52
|NVDA 65.93 -0.97 QGLY 3.17

+0.87
|NVDA 65.92 -0.98 SPG 29.55

+0.22
|NVDA 65.91 -0.99 QGLY 3.20

+0.90
|NVDA 65.90 -1.00 QGLY 3.21

+0.91
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Press the [m] key to toggle the display of the Market

Movers data on or off. The Market Movers shows stocks making new

daily highs or lows in real time.

PREMARKET AND AFTER HOURS TRADES

+-----------------------nasdaq.com extended

hours-----------------------+
| Page 1

|Pre-Market Trade Reporting Friday August 9

|Last: $17.93 Best Bid High:

$18.25
|Volume: 296,132 Best Ask Low:

$17.85

|Pre-Market Time (ET) Pre-Market Price Pre-Market

Share Volume
|09.29 $ 17.93 3700 |09.29 $ 17.92 500 |09.29 $ 17.93 800 |09.29 $ 17.92 100 |09.29 $ 17.93 200 |09.29 $ 17.93 2000 |09.29 $ 17.93 800 |09.29 $ 17.92 100 |09.29 $ 17.93 100 |09.29 $ 17.92 700 |09.29 $ 17.93 1700 |09.29 $ 17.93 1000 |09.28 $ 17.92 400 |09.28 $ 17.93 1000 |09.28 $ 17.91 1600 |09.28 $ 17.92 100 |09.28 $ 17.95 900 |09.25 $ 17.95 5000

v
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

The extended commands :pre and :after will popup a window

that displays the NASDAQ premarket or after hours trades for the

current symbol (or for a specific symbol listed on the command

line).

The time and sales data is displayed with an internal

text-based web browser. Use the arrow keys, [PageUp],

[PageDown], [Home] and [End] to move through the list of trades.

Press the [q] key to hide the popup.

Currently, NASDAQ supplies premarket trade information on

a real time basis, but after hours trades on a 15 minute delayed

basis. The trades are limited to those trades during the NASDAQ

extended hours sessions, 8AM to 9:30AM and 4PM to 6:30PM. Trades

on ECN's are not included.

IN-PLAY

+-------------------------Briefing.com In

Play--------------------------+
|Updated: 02-Jan-02 10:59 ET Comprehensive coverage on

ShortStories,
|analysis on Story Stocks
|Today's In Play

|10:59 ET Schering-Plough (SGP) 35.20 -0.61 35.12

-0.69 (-1.9%):
|ABN AMRO comments on news that Phase III clinical trials

of a
|fixed-combination tablet containing Claritin and Merck's

(MRK -0.7%)
|Singular did not demonstrate a statistically significant

improvement in
|the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis. According to

firm, the
|companies had hoped the combination would offset oncoming
|generics. Views news as having more of an impact on SGP

given that
|Claritin will face generic competition will in early

2003.
|10:54 ET eBay (EBAY) 65.30 -1.60 65.01 -1.89

(-2.9%): -- Update -|Technical -- Worth watching today and over the next sev

eral sessions as
|the chart has weakened in terms of its near-term outlook.

Stock is
|currently working to hold support at 65.00 -- on a clean

break lower
|look for subsequent support at congestion around

63.7/63.8 followed by
|additional support at its 50-day moving average of 62.15.

The intraday
|tone would improve on a break above 65.50.
|10:32 ET Nasdaq Composite : -- Technical -- Index contin

ues to maintain
|a posture over near-term support at congestion around

1950. On a breakv
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Press the [P] key to popup the Briefing.com In Play list.

The list is displayed with an internal text-based web browser.

Use the arrow keys, [PageUp], [PageDown], [Home] and [End] to

move through the list. Press the [q] key to hide the popup.

LinuxTrade automatically looks for stock symbols in the In

Play list and adds them to stocklist number 0. This lets you

watch the days hot stocks by switching the main screen to stock

list 0 after displaying the In Play list.

If the In Play popup is displayed and the display is on

the first line of the list, then LinuxTrade will automatically

refresh the information periodically. You can set the interval

between refreshes with the inplay_poll preference value. The

poll period is in minutes; set it to 0 to disable this feature.

If the preference item live_quotes is non-zero, then live

quotes will be added to the right side of the display. These

quotes will be updated in real time.

UP/DOWNGRADES

+-----------------------Briefing.com Up/Down

grades----------------------+
|Updated: 10:28 ET 02-Jan-02

|Upgrades

Live Quotes

|Company Symbol Brokerage UpgradeFrm UpgradeTo Target

Price Change

|CSG Syste CSGS Buckingha Swap Neutral

40.21 -0.24
|Novatel W NVTL USB Piper Mkt Perfor Outperfor

1.54 +0.32
|Genentech DNA USB Piper Mkt Perfor Outperfor $65

52.99 -1.26
|Intimate IBI Banc of A Mkt Perfor Buy $20

15.25 +0.39
|AnnTaylor ANN Banc of A Mkt Perfor Buy $42

34.50 -0.50
|Apple Com AAPL Gerard Kl Neutral Outperfor $26

22.43 +0.53
|AT T Merrill L NT Neutral NT Buy $21

18.43 +0.29

|Downgrades

|Company Symbol Brokerage DowngradFr DowngraTo Target |Gladstone GLAD BB Capita Strong Buy LT Buy $19

18.15 -0.35
|Imclone S IMCL Stephens Buy MktOutper $49

43.90 -2.56
|MTR Gamin MNTG Dresdner Buy Add $18

14.91 -1.09
|Corn Prod CPO Prudentia Buy Hold $38

32.84 -2.41

|IMS Healt RX Bear Stea Buy Attractiv $22

19.26 -0.25
|INRANGE INRG Salomon S Buy Outperfor $15

11.77 -0.58
|EOG Rsrcs EOG UBS Warbu Buy Hold $41

37.52 -1.59v
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Press the [P] key to popup the Briefing.com Up/Downgrades

list. The list is displayed with an internal text-based web

browser. Use the arrow keys, [PageUp], [PageDown], [Home] and

[End] to move through the list. Press the [q] key to hide the

popup.

LinuxTrade automatically looks for stock symbols in the

up/downgrades list and adds them to stocklist number 0. This

lets you watch the days hot stocks by switching the main screen

to stocklist 0 after displaying the up/downgrades list.

If the up/downgrades popup is displayed and the display is

on the first line of the list, then LinuxTrade will automatically

refresh the information periodically. You can set the interval

between refreshes with the inplay_poll preference value. The

poll period is in minutes; set it to 0 to disable this feature.

If the preference item live_quotes is non-zero, then live

quotes will be added to the right side of the display. These

quotes will be updated in real time.

EARNINGS CALENDAR

+--------------Bloomberg Earnings Calendar for

01/04/2002---------------+

|Page F
| Expected Period Est / Actual

Live Quotes

|Symbol Company Name Ann Date Ending EPS / EPS Audio

Price Change

|CLRNE CLARENT CORP 01/04/02 12/01 -0.40 / -

5.35 +0.00
|FORD FORWARD INDS 01/04/02 12/01 -- / -

1.14 +0.07
|SIMN SIMON TRANS 01/04/02 12/01 -- / -

3.30 +0.65
|THC TENET HEALTH 01/04/02 11/01 0.70 / 0.77 Listen

61.75 +1.75
|VPS VERMONT PURE 01/04/02 10/01 0.04 / -

4.90 +0.05
|GAP GREAT ATL 01/07/02 11/01 0.07 / -

24.78 +0.03
|UNF UNIFIRST COR 01/07/02 11/01 0.37 / -- 4:00pm

21.75 -0.16
|AA ALCOA INC 01/08/02 12/01 0.10 / -

37.16 +1.02
|CRAI CHARLES RIVE 01/08/02 11/01 0.20 / -- 10:00a

21.00 +0.99
|EMMS EMMIS COMM C 01/08/02 11/01 -0.30 / -

23.57 +0.97
|FRS FRISCHS RSTR 01/08/02 11/01 0.29 / -

15.37 -0.25
|HELE HELEN OF TRO 01/08/02 11/01 0.32 / -- 11:00a

12.32 -0.01
|HMSY HEALTH MGMT 01/08/02 10/01 -- / -

3.28 -0.01
|ICLR ICON PLC 01/08/02 11/01 0.28 / -

28.96 +0.65
|IMGC INTERMAGNETI 01/08/02 11/01 0.19 / -

25.70 -0.10
|NUHC NU HORIZONS 01/08/02 11/01 0.02 / -- 4:15pm

10.65 -0.04
|RPM RPM INC 01/08/02 11/01 0.22 / -- 10:00a

15.12 +0.20
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Press the [P] key to popup the Bloomberg Earnings

Calendar. The calendar is displayed with an internal text-based

web browser. Use the arrow keys, [PageUp], [PageDown], [Home]

and [End] to move through the list. Press the [q] key to hide

the popup.

Use the [right] and [left] keys to move the calendar dis

play forward or backward by one day. Use the [+] and [-] keys to

move the calendar display to the next or the previous week.

LinuxTrade automatically looks for stock symbols in the

earnings calendar and adds them to stocklist number 0. This lets

you watch the days hot stocks by switching the main screen to

stocklist 0 after displaying the earnings calendar.

If the preference item live_quotes is non-zero, then live

quotes will be added to the right side of the display. These

quotes will be updated in real time.

If the preference item mouse is non-zero, then you can se

lect a conference call to listen to. Under the Audio column,

click on the word Listen. The RealNetworks realplay program must

be installed on your system for this to work.

The extended command :earnings can be used to display de

tailed earnings information for the current stock in your web

browser. An optional symbol name can be supplied to the

:earnings command to display information on that stock.

SPLITS CALENDAR

+---------------------Briefing.com Splits Calen

dar----------------------+

|April

Live Quotes

|Company Symbol Ratio Payable Ex-Date Announced Opt

Price Change

|Jacobs JEC 2-1 Apr 01 Apr 02 Feb 12 Yes

71.29 +0.00
|99 Cents Onl NDN 4-3 Apr 03 Apr 04 Mar 12 Yes

38.34 +0.00
|Alliance Gam ALLY 2-1 Apr 08 Apr 09 Mar 20 Yes

30.53 +0.00
|McCormick MKC 2-1 Apr 08 Apr 09 Feb 19 Yes

51.13 +0.00
|THQ Inc THQI 3-2 Apr 09 Apr 10 Mar 08 Yes

49.10 +0.00
|Applied Mate AMAT 2-1 Apr 16 Apr 17 Mar 21 Yes

54.27 +0.00
|Autodesk ADSK 2-1 Apr 18 Apr 19 Mar 14 Yes

46.69 +0.00
|MASSBANK MASB 3-2 Apr 19 Apr 22 Jan 16

46.00 +0.00
|Progressive PGR 3-1 Apr 22 Apr 23 Mar 19 Yes

166.62 +0.00
|Dean Foods DF 2-1 Apr 23 Apr 24 Feb 21 Yes

75.72 +0.00

|May
|Company Symbol Ratio Payable Ex-Date Announced Opt
|Darden Rest DRI 3-2 May 01 May 02 Mar 21 Yes

40.59 +0.00
|ABM Industri ABM 2-1 May 06 May 07 Mar 12

36.70 +0.00
|Cathay Banco CATY 2-1 May 09 May 10 Mar 22

72.10 +0.00
|Enterprise P EPD 2-1 May 15 May 16 Feb 27

48.35 +0.00
|Fulton Fincl FULT 5-4 May 20 May 21 Mar 19

25.04 +0.00
|NTT DoCoMo DCM 5-1 May 22 May 22 Mar 04

68.40 +0.00

|June
|Company Symbol Ratio Payable Ex-Date Announced Opt
|First Data FDC 2-1 Jun 04 Jun 05 Mar 07 Yes

87.25 +0.00
|PMI Group PMI 2-1 Jun 14 n/a Feb 21 Yes

75.76 +0.00

|Copyright ? 2000 Briefing.com, Inc. All rights reserved.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Enter the extended command :splits to popup the

Briefing.com Splits Calendar. The calendar is displayed with an

internal text-based web browser. Use the arrow keys, [PageUp],

[PageDown], [Home] and [End] to move through the list. Press the

[q] key to hide the popup.

LinuxTrade automatically looks for stock symbols in the

splits calendar and adds them to stocklist number 0. This lets

you watch the stock that are pending splits by switching the main

screen to stocklist 0 after displaying the splits calendar.

QUIET PERIOD CALENDAR

+-------------------------Quiet Period Calen

dar-------------------------+
| IPO.com: Lock-up Period Calendar
| Companies Exiting the Quiet Period

Live Quotes

|Quiet End Trading Company Symbol Offering

Price Change

|04/22/02 03/27/02 MedSource Technologi MEDT $12.00

14.00 -1.00
|05/06/02 04/09/02 Empire Financial Hol EFH $6.00

4.75 -0.05
|05/07/02 04/12/02 Jetblue Airways Corp JBLU $27.00

43.63 -0.57
|05/07/02 04/12/02 Ribapharm Inc. RNA $10.00

11.80 +0.60
|05/13/02 04/18/02 Expressjet Holdings, XJT $16.00

16.15 +0.15
|05/13/02 04/18/02 Medical Staffing Net MRN $19.00

22.20 +0.70
| Any investment bank not involved with the underwriting

can start
|coverage immediately.
| Printed Saturday, April 20, 2002

|1998-2002 IPO.com, Inc. All rights reserved.This publica

tion could
|include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.

Changes are
|periodically added to the information herein; these

changes will be
|incorporated in new editions of the publication. IPO.com,

Inc. may make
|improvements and/or changes in this product(s) and/or the

program(s)
|described in this publication at any time.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Enter the extended command :qp to popup the IPO.com Quiet

Period Calendar. The calendar is displayed with an internal

text-based web browser. Use the arrow keys, [PageUp],

[PageDown], [Home] and [End] to move through the list. Press the

[q] key to hide the popup.

LinuxTrade automatically looks for stock symbols in the

quiet period calendar and adds them to stocklist number 0. This

lets you watch stocks in the quiet period by switching the main

screen to stocklist 0 after displaying the quiet period calendar.

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

+----------------------Briefing.com Econ Calen

dar-----------------------+
|Economic Calendar

|Updated: 09-Aug-02 | Click here for description of column

headings
|This Week's Calendar Click on a release for Instant

Analysis!

|Date ET Release For Actual Briefi

Consen Prior

|Aug 09 08:30 Productivity-Prel Q2 1.1% 0.6% 0.7%

8.6% 8.4%
|Week of August 12 - August 16

|Date ET Release For Actual Briefi

Consen Prior

|Aug 13 08:30 Retail Sales Jul 1.5% 1.2%

1.1%
|Aug 13 08:30 Retail Sales ex-au Jul 0.2% 0.3%

0.4%
|Aug 13 14:15 FOMC Meeting
|Aug 14 08:30 Business Inventori Jun 0.2% 0.2%

0.2%
|Aug 15 08:30 Initial Claims 08/10 370K NA

376K
|Aug 15 09:15 Industrial Product Jul 0.0% 0.2%

0.8%
|Aug 15 09:15 Capacity Utilizati Jul 76.1% 76.2%

76.1%
|Aug 15 12:00 Philadelphia Fed Aug 5.0 8.5

6.6
|Aug 15 14:00 FOMC Minutes 6/26
|Aug 16 08:30 CPI Jul 0.1% 0.2%

0.1%
|Aug 16 08:30 Core CPI Jul 0.1% 0.2%

0.1%
|Aug 16 08:30 Housing Starts Jul 1.690M

1.670M 1.672M
|Aug 16 08:30 Building Permits Jul 1.670M

1.680M 1.700M
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Enter the extended command :econ to popup the Briefing.com

Economic Calendar. The calendar is displayed with an internal

text-based web browser. Use the arrow keys, [PageUp],

[PageDown], [Home] and [End] to move through the list. Press the

[q] key to hide the popup.

HEATMAPS and CARPETS

The extended commands :heatmap and :carpet run various Ja

va applets which display market heatmaps and carpets. For these

commands to work, one or more Java SDK's must be installed (see

INSTALLATION below).

The heatmaps and carpets that are available are:

:heatmap etf nasdaq.com exchange traded funds

heatmap
:heatmap pmi nasdaq.com premarket heatmap :heatmap 100 nasdaq.com NASDAQ-100 heatmap :heatmap If before 9:30, premarket

heatmap, else NASDAQ-100 heatmap
:heatmap market money.net marketMETER :heatmap heat money.net heatmap
:heatmap sector money.net sectorTRACKER :carpet sector stockcharts.com sector carpet :carpet market stockcharts.com market carpet :carpet index stockcharts.com index carpet :carpet fidelity stockcharts.com Fidelity mutual

funds carpet
:carpet rydex stockcharts.com Rydex mutual

funds carpet
:carpet toronto stockcharts.com Toronto exchange

carpet

UNUSUAL VOLUME

The extended command :ibdvol populates stocklist 0 with

the list of 12-14 unusual volume stocks which are currently fea

tured on the Investors Business Daily home page.

The extended command :bwkvol populates stocklist 0 with a

list of up to 25 unusual volume stocks from a screen using the

Business Week real time stock screener.

PLAYERS

Stocklist 0 can be popoulated using the extended commands:

:players
:players tag
:players @
:players @index-symbol

The first form of the command (with no argument) looks up

the current symbol in the players.txt file. This is often used

to convert an index symbol into a stocklist of its components.

The second form of the command looks up the tag, which can

be any string, in the players.txt file.

The third form of the command (with an @ sign as the only

argument) looks up the components of the current canonical index

symbol using an external website.

The fourth form of the command looks up the components of

the listed canonical index-symbol using an external website.

The players.txt file is a simple tab separated text

database. Lines that do not begin with tab contain a tagname and

an optional stocklist comment. The symbols associated with that

tab follow, one per line, on all subsequent lines that begin with

a tab. The symbol lines contain a symbol name followed by an op

tional comment. For example:

vola Volatile Stocks

QLGC Qlogic
EXPE Expedia POS
NVDA Nvidia

dow Dow Industrials

$DJI Average
A Alcoa
AXP American Express
T AT&T

The players.txt files are searched for tags in the follow

ing order: current directory, $HOME/.linuxtrade/players.txt, and

finally /usr/share/linuxtrade/players.txt.

The system supplied /usr/share/linuxtrade/players.txt file

contains definitions for tags :dow, :spiders, and :majors. In

addition, component breakdown tags are provided for all of the

index symbols in the majors list. You can use the :majors com

mand to view the major market sectors, then position the stock

cursor and use the :players command to view how individual stocks

are performing within a specific sector.

EXTERNAL STOCKLISTS

Stocklist 0 can be populated from user written external

shell scripts. The shell script should output a list of stock

symbols, one per line. To specify a comment for the symbol, fol

low it with a tab character and the comment. The label for the

stocklist can be supplied with a line of the form label=string.

The extended command :!scriptname will run your shell

script named scriptname to populate stocklist 0.

TOOL MODE

linuxtrade can also be used as a tool to access quote data

without using the user interface. This mode can be used to run

linuxtrade from a script. The -T toolmode command line option is

used to run the program in tool mode.

In tool mode, quote data is sent to stdout in a canonical

text format, regardless of which streamer is selected. Commands

to change the stock list may also be sent to the program on

stdin.

TOOL MODE OUTPUT

The output in tool mode is comprised of text lines that

begin with a tag and consiste of one or more fields. The tag and

the fields are terminated with the vertical bar character (|).

OPEN|streamer

streamer streamer ID.

The OPEN record is sent before the streamer is

opened.

SYMS|symlist

symlist List of symbols which were sent to the

streamer.

The SYMS record is sent whenever the symbol list is

changed.

CONNECT|ident

ident Identifier received from server (if any).

The CONNECT record is sent when the streamer con

nection has been established.

COLS|column|column|...

column Column labels for the QUOTE and TRADE

records.

The COLS record is sent to identify the order and

meaning of the fields in the TRADE and QUOTE records.

QUOTE|symbol|time|bid|bidsize|... TRADE|symbol|time|bid|bidsize|...

symbol Stock symbol.
time Seconds since midnight, EST.
bid Inside bid price (floating point).
bidsize Inside bid size in hundred share units

(integer).
bidid Inside bid exchange ID (character).
ask Inside ask price (floating point).
asksize Inside ask size in hundred share units

(integer).
askid Inside ask exchange ID (character).
last Last trade price (floating point).
lastsize Last trade size in shares (integer).
volume Total volume (integer).
high Highest trade price (floating point).
low Lowest trade price (floating point).
close Previous days closing price (floating

point).

The TRADE record is sent when a trade has been com

pleted. The QUOTE record is sent when the inside bid or ask

changes.

DISC|number|reason

number Numeric disconnect code.
reason Disconnect reason.

The DISC record is sent when the streamer is dis

connected.

TIME|date|time|zone|unixtime

date The current date in New York.
time The current time in New York.
zone The time zone in New York.
unixtime The time in seconds since the Unix epoch.

The TIME record is sent right after the streamer is

connected, and once per minute thereafter.

NEWS|symbol|unixtime|datestr|headline

symbol The stock symbol or hot for general news. unixtime The time as the number of seconds since

the Unix epoch.
datestr A human readable version of the date.
headline The new headline.

The NEWS record is sent whenever the selected

streamer reports a news item and the tool mode (-T) option value

is 16 plus 1, 2, or 3 (17, 18, or 19).

TOOL MODE COMMANDS

Commands for tool mode are read from stdin. The command

formats are:

a symlist

Add the symbols in symlist to the streamer data.

D symbol

Delete the symbol from the streamer data.

q

Disconnect the streamer and quit the program.

TOOL MODE EXAMPLE

An example of tool mode output is the following:

OPEN|scottrader.com
CONNECT|FreeStreaming5
TIME|11/23/2001|12:01:00|EST|1006538460
SYMS|DELL,INTC,JDSU
COLS|Time|Bid|BidSize|BidID|Ask|AskSize|AskID|Last|Last

Size| Volume|High|Low|PrevClose
TRADE|INTC|43751|30.95|5|Q|30.97|45|Q|30.97|300

12282400|31.05|30.32|30.81
QUOTE|DELL|43591|26.24|5|Q|26.25|40|Q|26.25|500

5119900|26.37|25.75|25.95
TIME|11/23/2001|12:02:00|EST|1006538520
TRADE|JDSU|43752|11.70|20|Q|11.71|240|Q|11.71|1800

8897300|11.78|11.31|11.35
DISC|104|Command request

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

-c bg Sets the background color mode (0 to 3). See the

description of the colors modes above.

-l number

Start the display with stocklist number. Number

may be 1-99. The default is 1.

-t type

Sets the streamer type to use as a data source.

The type can be none, scottrader.com, ameritrade.com (use also

for former Datek accounts), esignal.com, freetrade.com, mon

ey.net, quotemedia.com, schwab.com, sonictrading.com, mon

eyam.com, or swissquote.ch. A leading partial substring of the

name can be used to abbreviate the type. The none type can be

useful if the username, password, host, or port parameters asso

ciated with a streamer are incorrect and you want a fast entry

into the program so you can go to the Change Streamer popup and

correct the parameters.

-p password

Set the password to use in connecting to the

streamer. The default is a "demo" password.

-u username

Set the username to use in connecting to the

streamer. The default is a "demo" username.

-P 'preferance=value'

Set the named preference to value.

-h hostname

Set the hostname or IP address to use in connecting

to the streamer. The default is the value stored in the prefer

ences for that streamer.

-w filename

Logs the streamer data to filename, for later re

play.

-r filename

Replays the streamer data from filename.

-L filename

Logs the raw streamer data to filename, for debug

ging.

-T toolmode

Run in tool mode. See section on tool mode above

for a description. The toolmode parameter controls what happens

if the streamer connection canot be made or if it disconnects.

If toolmode is 1, then a connection failure causes the program to

exit. If toolmode is 2, then a connection failure causes a new

connection to be attempted. If toolmode is 3, then a connection

failure causes a switch to the next configured streamer. If

toolmode is 4, then the program exits after retreiving at least

one quote for each of the listed stocks.

Adding 0x10 (16) to toolmode turns on news reports

for streamers that support news.

INSTALLATION

BASIC

Get the most recent version of LinuxTrade from:

http://linuxtrade.0catch.com

Login or su to root and install it with this command:

# rpm -U linuxtrade*.rpm

Get the most recent version (at least 7.9.5) of curl from:

http://curl.haxx.se/
or
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=curl

Login or su to root and install it with this command:

# rpm -U curl*.rpm

VOICE ALERTS

If you want voice alerts, get the most recent version of

IBM ViaVoice or festival from:

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/ttssdk_linux.html or
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=festival

Install one of those RPM's as usual.

JAVA

LinuxTrade can access and run various Java applets from

financial websites, such as the nasdaq.com heatmaps, or chart

streamers from livecharts.com and prophet.net. What we have

found is that these applets will work with some web browsers but

not all web browsers. The reason that they sometimes work and

sometimes don't seems to be the version of the Java VM that is

installed with the web browser. Some applets work well only with

the Java VM that is in Netscape 4.x, some work well only with a

more recent Java VM from Sun such such as might be installed with

Netscape 6.x, and some work well with either VM.

LinuxTrade knows which Java VM works best with each ap

plet, and will run applets outside of any web browser by using

the Java appletviewer program. But you must install at least two

Java JDK/SDK/JRE's for best results. We recommend that you in

stall at least the Blackdown 1.1.8 JDK and the Sun 1.4.0 JDK.

The 1.1.8 JDK/SDK can be downloaded from this site:

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.1.8/i386/v3/

The 1.4.0 JDK/SDK can be downloaded from this site:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/

If both of these packages are installed, you will have

these two directories:

/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0
/usr/java/jdk118_v3

FILES

/usr/bin/linuxtrade
/usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.advfn /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.audio /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.auth /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.av /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.bwkvol /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.cpt /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.frb /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.G /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.hm /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.ibdvol /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.lc /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.name /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.pe /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.pf /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.pivot /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.qm /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.range /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.shortint /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.sq /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.up /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin/linuxtrade.wn /usr/share/applications/linuxtrade.desktop /usr/share/applnk/Applications/linuxtrade.kdelnk /usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications/linuxtrade.desktop /usr/share/icons/linuxtrade.xpm /usr/share/linuxtrade/java.policy.allperm /usr/share/linuxtrade/players.txt /usr/share/pixmaps/linuxtrade_icon.png $HOME/.linuxtrade/rc
$HOME/.linuxtrade/N.list $HOME/.linuxtrade/alerts $HOME/.linuxtrade/ameritrade.com $HOME/.linuxtrade/datek.com(obsolete,useAmeritrade) $HOME/.linuxtrade/esignal.com $HOME/.linuxtrade/freetrade.com $HOME/.linuxtrade/players.txt $HOME/.linuxtrade/money.net $HOME/.linuxtrade/quotemedia.com $HOME/.linuxtrade/schwab.com $HOME/.linuxtrade/scottrader.com $HOME/.linuxtrade/sonictrader.com $HOME/.linuxtrade/swissquote.ch $HOME/.linuxtrade/moneyam.com

When searching for a helper program, linuxtrade will

search $PATH, $HOME/bin, and /usr/share/linuxtrade/bin, in that

order. Any of the helper programs can be customized by placing a

modified copy into $HOME/bin.

AUTHOR

Rick Richardson <rickr@mn.rr.com>
http://linuxtrade.0catch.com/
http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/

LinuxTrade 3.65 15 July 2003

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