Using Your Extra Favorites
What Are The Benefits Of Being An Extra! Subscriber?
Extra! subscribers have exclusive access to charting tools not found anywhere else. StockCharts.com provides these users with a myriad of customization options, including the ability to:
- Categorize their charts in up to 100 different Favorites lists, each containing up to 500 charts
- Store charts with live annotations that will automatically update over time
- Create intraday charts with up to 40 days of data
- Add up to 25 price overlays and indicator panels to any SharpChart
- Create and store up to 20 different ChartStyles to be uses with SharpCharts
- Create and store advanced, multiple expression technical scans
- View complete scan results (up to 999 tickers)
- Publish a list of charts for others to see
- View up to two years of daily price data for any stock symbol
- Upgrade with Real Time Charting for an additional $9.95/mo.
As you can see, the Favorites List takes on a whole new dimension with the StockCharts.com Extra! service. Save up to 100 Favorites Lists (each containing up to 500 charts) and have access to advanced Favorites management and a variety of instant charts from any of your lists.
Extra! members also have enhanced chart options and can create custom scans.
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Logging In
With the Extra! subscription, your entire service is tied into your username and password. Therefore, you must log in to have access to any of your Favorites or Extra! features.
- To log in to Extra!, go to the StockCharts.com home page. The login box is at the upper left.
- Enter your email address and password, and click the
button. You will be taken directly to your Extra! home page. - To log in automatically every time you visit the site, check the box below before clicking the
button. We suggest making your Extra! home page your browser's default home page for easy reference.
Navigating The Extra! Home Page
The Extra! Home Page is the main page of your account. This is where you can access all of the features available to your membership. This is the hub where you can manage your account and your Favorites directly. You will be taken directly to the Extra! Home Page after logging in. To return to it at any time, click on the
navigation tab at the top right of every page.
The Extra! Home Page is broken down into 4 sections: the Extra! Control Center, the Your Membership area, the What's New area, and the Favorites area.
Extra! Control Center
This area is where you can access all of our main charting and analysis tools, as well as your Favorite Charts. We'll cover how to manage your Favorites later in this article.
- Your Favorite Charts: Clicking this link will take you to your Favorites Management area
- Our Public Chart Lists: This takes you to our Public List area where you can view what some of your fellow StockCharts members are doing with thier charts.
- Scan Engine: This link takes you to our stock scanning tool. There are two options - Standard and Advanced
- SharpCharts: This links to our main charting tool
- Point & Figure Charts: This links to our Point & Figure tool, which offers 3 types charting.
Also included in this area are quick links to the various instruction manuals for these tools (including the one you are reading now).
Your Membership
From the Your Membership box on the right, you can manage your account details:
Extend now and save Here you can choose to extend your current subscription service.
Upgrade options From here you can upgrade your service to Extra! with The Market Message, or Extra! with The Market Message and Real Time Charting.
Your Account Settings Edit your member information: email address, password, mailing address, or phone number
Edit your billing information: credit card type/number/exp date, or automatic renewal
Edit your newsletter preferences: enable/disable Chart Watchers newsletter or Helpful Tips newsletter
Edit your charting service: change your Point and Figure charting style to plain text, graphical, or dynamic
Edit John Murphy's Market Message: enable/disable email notification
Cancel membership: cancel your membership immediately
Have a question? Click this link to go to the Feedback page where you can send us a question or comment.
I forgot my password Click this link to have your password emailed to you.
Want to log out? This will log you out of the site.
What's New Area
In addition, at the bottom of the Basic Home Page, there is a What's New section. This is where you will find announcements, newsletter links, the latest bookstore specials, and more. Be sure to check this area frequently to keep on on StockCharts.com news!
Favorites Area
This area can be accessed by either clicking on the Your Favorites link in the Extra! Control Center or by scrolling to the bottom of your Extra! Home Page. It give you links to all of the different formats you can view your charts in.
- Summary: When you choose Summary list option, a Market Summary screen of all the ticker symbols included in the list is shown. You can view the Summary prices using either end of day data or intraday data. Visit our Market Summary help page for more information on this feature.
- 10 Per Page: Displays up to 10 charts on a single page. Further customization options and links to other chart types are provided beside each chart.
- Chart Book: Shows each annotated chart on a separate page for in-depth editing and customization. Click on the chart to "flip the page" and view the next one, or click the Next link at the bottom of the page. You can also select any chart in the list using the dropdown list below the chart. Further customization options and links to other chart types are provided below each chart.
- Gallery: Shows a Gallery View for each ticker symbol in the list. An intraday, daily, and weekly view chart is provided. Visit our Gallery View help page for detailed information on this charting option.
- Market Carpet: For easy visual analysis of your list's performance, create a Market Carpet. Visit our Market Carpet help page for detailed information on this charting option.
- CandleGlance: View side-by-side thumbnail charts for each symbol in your list that are great for a quick overview. Visit our CandleGlance help page for detailed information on this charting option.
- Print: Use this display if you want to print out your charts. Page breaks are automatically inserted between charts.
- Edit: The easiest way to modify the charts in your Favorites List. You can add, delete or change symbols and comments, make your list public, change the chart style, and more. See Managing My Favorite Charts below for detailed instructions.
Managing Your Favorites
Favorite Lists
At the top of the Favorites List Properties page, you can make changes to the list. Use the dropdown box at the top of the page to change the list you wish to edit.
- List Commands: Let you delete/edit the list, or create a new one. The Delete command cannot be undone
- Name: Lets you change the name of the list.
Click on the
button to confirm your changes. - List Notes: Can be used to better describe the list, or perhaps a comment on the stocks included in the list. These notes will appear beside the name of the list on your Extra! home page, in the "List Notes" field in the various chart displays, and at the top of your Public Lists (if any).
Click on the
button to confirm your changes. - Public List: If you want your list to be viewable by anyone on the Internet via our Public List area, check the "Public List" box. A confirmation box will appear. To learn more about Public Lists, click here.
Favorite Charts
As stated above, Extra! users can save up to 100 Favorites Lists, each containing up to 500 charts. Charting pages such as SharpCharts or Point & Figure Charts allow you to modify your favorite charts directly from the page. There are two ways to utilize your favorites from these pages.
Method 1: Favorite charts can be quickly accessed, added, edited, or deleted by using the dropdown menu to the right of the ticker box.
- To access a chart from your favorites list, simply select it from the dropdown menu.
- To save a chart to your Favorites list, click the Add New link below the dropdown list above the chart. In the pop-up window, enter the chart name and select the list you wish to save the chart to.
- To view all of the the charts in a particular list, select the list you wish to view from the ChartList dropdown, then click the View All link.
Method 2: Another way to manage your favorite charts is through the links provided at the bottom of the page.
- Add Current Chart functions the same as the link below the dropdown box above the chart. Enter a chart description into the dialog box that appears or simply press "ADD" to accept the suggested description. This selection can also be used to rename a chart.
- Save Changes saves any changes made to the current chart.
- Delete removes the current chart from the selected list.
- Apply Style To All allows the user to apply the style of the current chart to all favorite charts in the selected list.
- Manage the ChartList allows the user to delete charts, edit chart settings/annotations, move charts to different lists, edit the style of the charts, or add predefined groups of stocks to the list (eg. Dow Industrials).
- View the ChartList allows the user to see all the charts that have been saved in 10-per-page layout. From here the user can edit chart info, add comments, or delete the chart.
Favorite Scans
On the
tab, click Your Favorites to see your Favorites Scans.
- To run a saved scan, select it from the dropdown list and click the
button. - To edit a saved scan, select it from the dropdown list and click the
button. The scan will open in the User-Defined Scans page for editing. - To create a new scan, click on the
link. You'll be taken to the User-Defined Scans page.
For more information on User-Defined Scans, see our Technical Scans Manual.
SnapShot Lists
The Snapshots List is where new, static annotated charts can be stored. This list cannot be deleted, and can only contain charts that are uploaded from our ChartNotes annotation tool.
- To add a chart to this list, create a new SharpChart of the symbol you wish to annotate then click the Annotate Chart link underneath the chart. After annotating the chart, click the
button and select "Save as a static snapshot". A Snapshots list will be created if there is not one already.
Note: Only new SharpCharts can be added to your Snapshots List. Charts chosen from another list and then annotated cannot be saved to your Snapshots List, but will be saved to the original list and will simply overwrite the original chart.
