This is a customizable stock ticker, scanner, charting tool. It is similar to Stockwatch's Live Ticker, but the views are organized onto a series of tabbed pages. The size, positions and settings of all your views can be saved for your next session. View colors are completely customizable. A Live Broker Activity view has been added for Canadian stocks along with Portfolio Value and Portfolio Transaction views.

The Daytrader Workstation requires Sun's newest Java software. The applet will run in Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator with Sun's Java plugin, JRE 1.4. If you have not installed the plugin, you will be prompted to install it the first time you run the software. If you are using Netscape 6.0 and have installed Java you will already have this plugin. The applet will not work with older versions of Java.

Sun's Java does not work well with Windows 98 or earlier systems. Use the Live Ticker instead.

Please click here to read the online tutorial.

Stockwatch Desktop BETA TEST

Stockwatch Desktop is our new standalone application program. All the functionality of the Ticker and Daytrader Workstation is available, and it is very similar to the Daytrader Workstation in operation. You can download and install this program on your PC - note that only Windows XP is supported at this time. This is NOT a Java program so you will notice that it does not have the resource limitations of a Java applet.

When you run the Stockwatch Desktop for the first time, please read the online help page first.

NOTE: This product is currently under BETA TEST. You may try this program if you wish but you may experience problems as it is not yet thoroughly tested. We would appreciate any feedback you may have - please email webmaster@stockwatch.com.

Click here to download the installation program. If you are prompted to run (or open) or save this, select "run (or open)". Otherwise save it to your desktop and then run it after it is downloaded.
This program requires Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0. The setup program will prompt to you install this if you do not already have it, OR you can install the framework directly from Microsoft with this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx
Install the ".NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package". There are three versions available depending on what processor your computer has. If you don't know which one you have, try the "x86" version.

When a new version of the Desktop is available, it will automatically download. You do not need to reinstall or update. A dialog box will appear informing you that a new version is ready and ask you if you want to run it.

Windows Vista Install - Additional Instructions

• Step 1 - Temporarily disable User Account Control (UAC). To disable UAC, search for the phrase "turn off UAC" from the Vista help window and follow the directions. Make sure you UNCHECK the box to turn off UAC.
• Step 2 - Reboot VISTA
• Step 3 - Install the Stockwatch Desktop program from this page.
• Step 4 - Turn on the UAC via same the same instructions from Step1 and put the checkmark back in the box.
• Step 5 - Reboot VISTA
• Step 6 - When you start Stockwatch Desktop, make sure you agree to all the security warnings.

Version 1.0.0.69 20080624 Changes
New Features
- New Portfolio Value chart. Displays historic chart of portfolio values.
- Copying to clipboard is supported by all views.
Fixed Bugs
- Index quote events don't display in Events windows.
- Alarm sound can be set back to default beep sound.
- News for stocks in your ticker, can make a sound or beep as well.
- Saved layouts will load when a news bulletin is missing.
- All saved daily charts will open for todays date.
- Market depth will not remove orders with duplicate order numbers.
- Delayed NYSE symbols will show bid and ask prices.
- Saved layouts containing historical and daily charts will open properly.

Version 1.0.0.67 20080416 Changes
New Features
- Block trade alarms can be set by exchange.
- Alarm sound can be changed.
- When the Desktop is minimized an alarm pop-up window will open for 8 seconds when an alarm is triggered.
- A sound can be played for news for a stock in your Desktop ticker window.
- Company website on Fundamentals view is now a direct link to the companys website.
- Technical indicators based on the 1 year chart, can be added to the Ticker view.
Fixed bugs
- Saved layouts containing Fundamental views can be loaded.
- Bid and ask prices update for TSX indices in the Ticker.
- Desktop program shuts down properly
- Some minor realignment of widths in the Depth by Order window
- Alarm events window position is maintained when changing pages.
- Depth by Price summary volume is correct.
- Daily charts for specific dates can be saved in layouts.
- Daily chart price by broker configuration is saved.
- Duplicate pages accurately re-use chart settings from the page that is duplicated.
- More than 1 layout can be deleted at a time.
- Charts for $TICKIXQ display properly
- Linear Regression is not truncated.
- News headlines use local time.
- Daily charts display properly in Saskatchewan time zone.
- Large layouts open properly.
- Stock splits are represented properly in multiple day Daily charts.

Version 1.0.0.62 20071205 Changes
New features
- Linear regression index is available on charts from the Moving Average settings.
- Linear regression slope is available as a new lower indicator.
- Duplicate page menu selection, creates a new detail page with exact view positioning, while selecting a new stock.
- Volume block trade alarm, can be set for individual stocks.
- Alarm events are colored by type.
- Fundamental view button has been added to the toolbar.
Fixed bugs
- Depth by order times now include hours, minutes and seconds.
- Volume on the Depth by Order window is correct.
- Indexes continue to update if an alarm is set.

Version 1.0.0.59 20071011 Changes
New features
Fixed bugs
- Font sizes are saved and restored properly.
- One minute stock scanner dialog resizes properly.
New features
- Add and remove stocks from your portfolio from the Ticker window.
- Display order times in Market Book and Level 2 by selecting "Show Times" from the depth popup menu.

Version 1.0.0.58 20070918 Changes
New features
- Three Line Break chart type has been added.
- Volume by Price technical indicator has been added.
- Font type, not just size, can be selected.
- Stock fundamentals includes company name and web address.
Fixed bugs
- Alarm settings are read more robustly.
- Better error checking when entering symbols.
- Depth Histogram updates more efficiently.
- Market book and Level 2 windows proportions were improved.
- Stock selection is by region instead of exchange.

Version 1.0.0.57 20070720 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- Chart indicator line colors can be changed, and the changes are saved.
- MACD indicator has a legend identifying primary and secondary lines.
- Broker activity displays properly when opened more than once.

Version 1.0.0.56 20070629 Changes
New features
- A new Switch Window popup allows you to bring windows from behind other windows to the foreground. (Select this feature from the Windows menu, or right click on a page.)
- Depth Histogram window has been added.
- News headlines can be selected by portfolio number, so that a news window only displays your portfolio news.
Fixed bugs
- Preferences are saved when upgrading from one version to the next (after this upgrade).
- Toolbar visibility is saved correctly for Daily and Historic charts.
- Saved layout keeps windows correctly layered on top of each other.
- Detail page is positioned so that space is not wasted underneath the Depth by Price window.

Version 1.0.0.55 20070613 Changes
New features
- One minute stock scanner allows scanning for price and volume changes, news, and technical indicators.
Fixed bugs
- news is marked for symbols with periods, as it is received

Version 1.0.0.54 20070529 Changes
Bug fixes:
- Trades are displayed in the correct order after loading a saved layout.
- News is displayed for stocks that contain a period in their symbol.
- Stocks that trade in US funds on Canadian exchanges are valued correctly in Portfolios.

Version 1.0.0.53 20070515 Changes
Bug fixes:
- Stocks are un-subscribed to when closing the last view that displays them.
- Rename information is used when opening past days Daily charts.

Version 1.0.0.52 20070418 Changes
New Features:
- Portfolio value view shows the change in portfolio value from yesterday.
Bug fixes:
- Desktop will function if the directory it is trying to write log files to is write-protected.
- Desktop will keep log files in the Stockwatch Program Files folder when using Windows XP.
- Help file links work properly.

Version 1.0.0.51 20070404 Changes
New Features:
- You can restrict the news window to only displaying some types of news releases.
Bug fixes:
- Desktop won't crash if web service query fails.
- Saves the ticker comments properly.
- Right click to rename a page, also selects that page.
- Connection error dialogs only appear once.
- Chart lines are saved in layouts.
- You can install the Desktop over an older version.

Version 1.0.0.50 20070219 Changes
New Features:
- Lines can be selected and deleted individually in the chart windows.
Bug fixes:
- Zero value alarms no longer appear when you start the Desktop.
- In the Ticker you can remove news markers; in the News headlines view, news for active stocks is highlighted.
- US options report correct values in the Portfolio Value view.
- Closed stock positions report correct profit and loss and the Portfolio Value view.
- Canadian and US currencies are handled correctly in the Portfolio Value view.
- Foreign exchange quotes chart properly.
- Charts display correctly in time zones around the world.

Version 1.0.0.49 20070131 Changes
New Features:
- Broker names can be displayed in Trades, Market Book and Time and Sales windows for Canadian stocks.
- Desktop can automatically open a saved layout when starting.
- Pages can be re-ordered by dragging the page tabs and dropping them in new positions.
- From the Help menu pressing Send Diagnostics to Stockwatch will send diagnostic information to Stockwatch support staff. You can include a short message.
Bug fixes:
- Progress bar works properly during long operations.
- Daily charts display properly from different time zones.
- Connection messages are displayed on the status bar.
- Selection is not lost on Stock Review page when stock prices are updated.
- Ticker pages display portfolio number, and store portfolio number with Ticker views in saved layouts.

Version 1.0.0.48 20070116 Changes
Fixed bugs
- More stable if you change your login credentials with the Desktop console program.
- Daily charts work for any for any timezone, including across the International Dateline.
- Desktop shortcuts are created properly.
- In the headline window the first headline is not highlighted.
- Portfolio value displays closed positions properly.
- Index view displays index names.
- Stock scanning does not freeze.

Version 1.0.0.47 20061215 Changes
Fixed bugs
- Stocks are un-subscribed from after scanning. Stock subscription limits are respected.
- Trades are handled properly if you open a window with a stock, close it and open it again.
- Stocks sorted by symbol, not exchange.
- Alarm events window is not re-opened when changing pages.

Version 1.0.0.46 20061202 Changes
New features:
- Improved way to set alarms from the Ticker view
- Price Activity historical chart view shows the amount of volume at different price levels
- Help file improvements
Fixed bugs
- Ticker column widths are saved
- Saved charts include toolbar showing or hidden
- Layouts containing Ticker views load properly.
- Some formatting changes to Ticker views.

Version 1.0.0.44 20061113 Changes
New Features:
- Ticker now supports a comments column
- Two new alarm types: change and change from open price
- Trix indicator on charts
Fixed bugs:
- Previous always shown if selected
- Nicer ticker up or down arrow
- Portfolio value and Transaction views resized properly

Version 1.0.0.43 20061030 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- You can scroll all the way to the right when zooming in on charts.
- You can choose which indices to display in the Index view.
- Page layout works when you have a large number of open pages.
- Highlighting works properly in Stock Scanner when you change scan parameters
- You can set an alarm from the Ticker view menu.
- Index, Scanner and Options menus have been improved.
- Logarithmic values display properly for stocks that are less than 1 cent.

Version 1.0.0.41 20061011 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- Pink sheet market depth updates properly.
- Historical charts can save comparison stocks.
- Chart printing has been improved.
- Bid/Ask displays halted status.
- Vertical chart grid works for chart ranges past 2 years.

Version 1.0.0.40 20060929 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- Works properly on computers with French or European language settings.
- Year high and low as well as Halt and Resume alarms work.
- Alarm events are not lost.
- Parallel lines draw properly.

Version 1.0.0.39 20060913 Changes
New features:
- Supports exchange H indices.
- Volume Moving Average lower indicator added.
- Gann Angles for both up and down directions.
Fixed bugs:
- Prices by Broker on Daily chart works again.
- Daily High and Low alarms work properly.
- Charts are not zoomed in if you maximize and then restore them.
- The tick arrow updates properly in the Ticker window.
- Symbols will update properly on both Canadian and US exchanges in the same Ticker window.

Version 1.0.0.38 20060906 Changes
New features:
- Gann Angles line drawing tool has been added.
Fixed bugs:
- If you have two ticker views with stocks that are in both of them, closing one will not stop the stocks from updating in the other ticker.
- Trade cancel messages do not repeat.

Version 1.0.0.37 20060905 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- Ticker window does not automatically select the first line when opened.
- Picker page settings are saved for next time.
- Prices display properly when using European regional settings.
- Broker Activity is shown from ticker menu
- Erase last line works properly.

Version 1.0.0.36 20060804 Changes
New Features:
- Show the value of all portfolios and all transactions is added for Portfolio and Transaction view.
- Daily chart has an option to remove or display prices that might be in error. (Turned off by default)
Fixed bugs:
- Picker and Review pages won't crash if you close the chart.
- Tab button matches visible page when a saved layout is opened.
- Stock scanner is live when the same stock repeats.
- Desktop opens the same size it was last time.
- Ticker and detail views tile properly when toolbar is visible.
- Time scale draws properly without indicator views.

Version 1.0.0.35 20060801 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- Layouts are saved correctly.

Version 1.0.0.34 20060725 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- Portfolios containing equity options can be opened in a ticker window.

Version 1.0.0.33 20060724 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- If you don't enter a login Id the first time you run it, it will not crash. It will keep asking until you either cancel or enter credentials.
- Alarm Event windows can be removed from saved layouts.
- Transaction and Portfolio views load properly from saved layouts.
- News headlines update properly.

Version 1.0.0.32 20060717 Changes
Fixed bugs:
- Market depth by order for TSX/V works.
- Handle errors when entering password and customer ID the first time.
- Can change stocks in Options window.
- Chart arrow keys don't repaint as much.
- Right clicking on the main view can be used to rename or remove pages.

Version 1.0.0.31 20060714 Changes
New features:
- Toolbars for zooming and changing range and period of charts (can also be hidden)
- Toolbar in main window for selecting views (can also be hidden)
- Can change stocks on Trade, Depth and other views
Fixed bugs:
- Index inside quote is formatted properly.

Version 1.0.0.30 20060711 Changes
New features
- You can read news articles from the ticker view.
- News properties dialog box has been added to the Options menu.
- Error messages are displayed if you can't log into the server
- You can copy diagnostic messages from the Stockwatch Local Server console.
- Desktop diagnostic messages are stored in a file called "desklog.txt"
Fixed bugs
- Historic charts combine days from different exchange
- Time scale on/off setting is saved properly
- 'N' alerts are shown on ticker view without opening the news window.
- Ticker view selection has been fixed.
- Volume is correct on Picker and Review views.

Version 1.0.0.29 20060706 Changes
Features:
- Stock scanner view has been added.
Bug fixes:
- The charts on the Stock picker or Stock review pages keep their period and range settings when you change stocks.
- News and Alarm indicators have been added to Ticker.
- Multi-day charts display properly for all timezones.

Version 1.0.0.28 20060630 Changes
Fixes
- charts open properly before the market opens
- broker activity is displayed correctly

Version 1.0.0.27 20060629 Changes
Fixes
- shorter ticker row heights
- deleting stocks from ticker view works
- ticker events are restored to correct location with saved layouts
- Eastern time zone support
- Password and UserId are deleted properly, use either Clear Credentials or else *uncheck* Remember password box in Set Credentials
- Won't crash if you enter an incorrect password
- Uninstall cleans up registry entries, and removes all files.

Version 1.0.0.26 20060621 Changes
First public release