Product Description
Quick-Scans: ChartLabPro by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
CHARTLABPRO
TheChartLab.com
Which stock should you buy? Are the
stocks you own worth holding on to or
should you sell them? Are they oversold
or overbought? Should you put all your
equity into a trade? Trading is all about
making decisions based on an unknown
outcome. Sometimes you make the
right decision, sometimes you don’t.
But that’s the nature of the game, and
often, those decisions are made purely
on guesswork.
To take guesswork out of the equation,
the folks at TheChartLab.com developed
ChartLabPro, a technical analysis–based
platform to help traders gain an edge in
their trading. It is designed to give you an
overall view of your portfolio so you are
better able to make trading decisions.
Features
When you log on to ChartLabPro (Figure
1), you will see all the alerts for your
portfolio, watchlist, and sectors. These
alerts let you know which stocks or sectors
had some change in their rankings —
that is, they may have been downgraded
or perhaps their trend reversed. To the
right of the alerts you will see the performance
of the Standard & Poor’s 500
with three support and resistance levels
and a meter that indicates if the index is
oversold or overbought. You will also
see several articles that provide market
commentaries. They are titled “Morning
Coffee,” “Afternoon Tea,” and “Happy
Hour.” Prior to trading, if you looked at
the Morning Coffee section, you will get
a summary of the important news items
that could affect your trading.
The rating change alerts, which you will
also see on the home page, are good to keep
an eye on. Here you see rating changes
for longs, shorts, and the S&P 500 for the
current day, the last two days, and the last
five days. You also see the long and short
alerts where you see the previous rating
as well as the new one. Another variable I
would like to point out is the current day,
two-day, and five-day outperformance,
which is your average return of longs and
average return of shorts.