Chip Anderson

February 2010

Chip Anderson

Flash ChartNotes to the Rescue!

by Chip Anderson

As many of you know, we provide a tool called "ChartNotes" for people to use when they want to add annotations to their charts or inspect the data on the charts.  ChartNotes is a Java-based program that was originally written back in 2003 and has worked well for most of our users since that time. Unfortunately, ChartNotes doesn't work for all of our users.  For various reasons (some of which we understand, some of which - frankly - we don't) the Java plugin that ChartNotes needs simply will not run on some computers.  If Java doesn't work then ChartNotes won't work Read More 

Chip Anderson

Saving Money with BATS Realtime

by Chip Anderson

Here's great news for ExtraRT members that want to save some money.  ExtraRT members can now choose to downgrade their account from ExtraRT to regular Extra. Why would they want to do that? Now that we provide "free" realtime charts using data from the BATS exchange, some of our current ExtraRT members may decide that BATS data is good enough for them and they want to save the extra $9.95 per month that ExtraRT's "real" realtime costs. For example, consider an ExtraRT member that only looks at popular US stocks and has 10 months remaining on their ExtraRT subscription.  If that Read More