Chapter III News Headlines Monitor In this chapter Viewing a news story 820 Adding, renaming, removing columns 821 Printing news headlines and stories 822 Saving a news story to a file 823 News and Quotes: Chapter III 819
The News Headlines monitor The news section of the News and Quotes window displays scrolling headlines from stories released by various news services. The headlines that appear are from those news services enabled by the user's data provider. When establishing an account, you select the news services that you want to receive stories from. In addition to the headline, the window lists a date and time for each story. Note Duplicate news stories may appear if you have subscribed to more than one news service. News story overlaid on Real-Time News and Quotes screen Viewing a news story å To view a news story: Double click on a headline. The news story for which the headline pertains will appear in a text window. -or- Click on a headline with the right mouse button. From the menu that appears, select Show Article. 820 AIQ TradingExpert Pro Reference Manual
Viewing news stories for a specific ticker å To access news stories for an individual ticker: 1. In the Quotes monitor section, select a ticker from the list by clicking on it with your left mouse button. 2. From the Ticker menu, select Ticker News. A list of headlines for stories concerning the selected ticker will appear. 3. To view an individual story, double click on that story. Adding, removing, and renaming columns You may add new columns to the News Headlines monitor. You can also remove or rename existing columns. å To add a new column to the News Headlines monitor: 1. Click with your right mouse button on any existing column header and select Insert Column from the menu that appears. A dialog box appears listing the available columns. 2. Select the column that you want to add and click OK. å To remove an existing column: 1. Click with your right mouse button on any existing column header. 2. From the menu that appears, select Remove Column. Right mouse click menu for columns å To replace an existing column with another: 1. Click with your right mouse button on the column header you wish to replace. 2. From the menu that appears, select Rename Column. News and Quotes: Chapter III 821
Sorting the list of headlines The list of headlines shown in the News Headlines monitor can be sorted in the order of any of the three columns available, Date, Time, or Headline. å To sort list of headlines: Click on a column head with the left mouse button. Using the data in the selected column, rows are instantly sorted in alphabetic or numeric order. Clicking a second time on the same column head will reverse the sorting order (from ascending to descending or visa versa). -or- Right-click on a column head to display the column and sorting menu. From this menu, select your sorting preference for the selected column. You can specify that the column be used for the primary or the secondary sorting criteria and you can specify ascending or descending order. Printing news headlines and stories Headlines A list of headlines from the current day's stories can be printed. Options for setting up, previewing, and printing are found on the File menu. å To print a list of headlines: 1. To setup the page, select Page Setup from the File menu and specify margins for the printed page. 2. To preview the page (or pages) before you print, select Print Preview. 3. To print, select Print from the File menu. News stories When a story is displayed in a story window, it can be printed by selecting Print from the story window's File menu. 822 AIQ TradingExpert Pro Reference Manual
Saving a news story to a file å To save a story: 1. With the story displayed in a story window, use your mouse to select the entire story or a part of the story that you want to save. 2. To save, select Save from the File menu. 3. Use the Save dialog box to specify a name and location for the file that will contain the saved story. News and Quotes: Chapter III 823
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