Plutonic Stock Quoter                                                   http://www.plutonic.co.uk
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Description
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Plutonic Stock Quoter (PSQ) is a Java application which displays price quotes for stocks and shares.
Its multi-threaded design allows it to run "hands-free" on your desktop, retrieving the latest
share prices as you get on with other things.

PSQ allows you to split the shares you wish to track into individual Portfolios. Stocks can then be
added to these portfolios. The portfolios are saved when the application is closed and  any changes
will be kept for the next time the application is launched. Portfolios can be created and deleted
from within the application.

The shares in each portfolio will refresh in the period of minutes specified in Portfilio menu. This
effectively works by pausing a share for the period of time after the latest price has been retrieved.
Any changes to the refresh rate will only take place after the stock next refreshes.

PSQ has two main views, the Detail View, which shows a the list of tickers chosen and on
selecting one, gives details of that share, and the Summary view, which lists all the chosen
shares along with the pertinant information.

Prices are colour coded. Red means a price has decreased, green means it has increased, gray means
it has stayed the same. On the summary view, the Last, Ask and Bid prices go Red or Green when the price
has changed after the last refresh for that ticker. Black text for the ticker symbol means the price
is real time, gray means it is delayed.

Also on the Summary screen, a Yellow ticker name means that quote is currently being refreshed. A Red
ticker name means there was a problem retrieving the latest price for that ticker. An orange ticker means
there are too many shares attempting to update simultaneously and that one is waiting in the queue. The
queue size can be changed from the options window.

Each ticker symbol on the Summary screen is a button. Clicking on this will launch a new window
containing a graph of the share-price. This window can be resized as necessary. This graph tracks the 
ask, bid and mid price with the colours pink, cyan and orange respectively. The graph can also be 
launched via the stock data menu. Clicking in this graph window will show the time the stock was at that 
price.

There are various options on this window to change the graph. Please see "known problems" when dealing 
with the moving average function.

Both the Detail and Summary view have the stocks ordered in alphabetical order based on ticker symbol.
In future, you will be able to sort the summary screen on more values, using the column headings, which
are now buttons. This is not yet implemented.

The refresh button will immediately retrieve the latest price for a share, rather than waiting until
the auto-refresh time has elapsed.

Notes can be attached to each share via the Detail View/Stock menu.

Installation
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Run PSQ.EXE (self extracting archive) to install the application.
It will be installed to c:\program files\plutonic systems\psq\ 

Running
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Select Plutonic Stock Quoter from the Windows Start menu

Status
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This application is fully-functional Freeware.

Distribution
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This package can be distributed free of charge.

Problems & Suggestions
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Please email any problems or improvement suggestions to psquoter@plutonic.co.uk.