To view detailed market data in a table for a particular security, select Price Data from the View Menu:
An Enter Symbol dialog will appear. A Symbol Search button is also available if you do not know the symbol.
Alternatively, you can view the detailed price data for the symbol on an active chart or other page by selecting the Price Data command from the Actions for "Symbol" submenu of the Actions menu:
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The user can view the precise market data for the security in a table, and can edit the daily data in the table.
The table has a heading area containing details of the symbol and its display:
Each record of data appears sequentially as a row in the table beneath the heading area.
The page contains the following elements:
The Symbol and its description are displayed.
A link to the Detailed Symbols Information page is also provided.
This refers to the data which each row represents. The choices are Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly.
Selecting between compression levels will alter the number of rows which are displayed.
Daily compression allows Read/Write, the other compression levels only support Read.
This means that you can change the data in the table, save it and view it in Daily charts only. For the other charts the Function bar's editing commands are disabled.
The data fields displayed will depend on the type of symbol.
For example an equity will have the following data fields: Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Bid, and Ask.
Option contracts will have all of these, and in addition have the Open Interest field.
Each data record has its own row.
It is listed sequentially from oldest at top to most recent at the bottom.
The Date of the data is displayed after the number, as are the data for each field.
The following function bar has commands for editing the table and its daily data:
Use the scroll bar to move up and down the list (the data is ordered from oldest at the top to most recent at the bottom) and click the Details button to view the basic cataloguing information that is behind this security.
Use the buttons in the function bar as follows:
Add Row
Add a new blank row (or record) to the end of the list. Use this to provide another day of data.Insert Row
Insert a blank row immediately above the current cursor position.Delete Row
Delete the current row.To find a particular date, use the function bar's Find Date function:
You can directly edit the data in the table.
Edit the values provided for any date in the list, including the Date, the Open, High, Low, Close, Volume and Open Interest.
Click in the cell you wish to edit with your mouse and type over the top of the previous data. However, you must proceed with caution, for any changes you make may permanently affect the pricing database.
Select the Save Data command from the Action Menu to save the changes you have made.
You must save the changes before you can display them in the chart, see next section.
The ability to edit the pricing data for a security is a useful one, but proceed with caution, for Stock Investor uses this data for all its core functions, including charting, technical indicators and quotes. When you have finished, click Close to exit this window. If you made changes you do not wish to save, click No when requested. To save your changes select Yes.
To display the changes in the chart, first save the edit (refer to previous section) and then select the Price Chart command from the Price Data page's Action Menu:
The chart page will open and the saved edits will be generated in the chart.
Note - To recover the original HUBB data for the table, perform a Custom Data Download from the symbol's chart page, this will overwrite the edits you made in the Price Data Table.
To print the Price Data page, select the Print command from the Price Data page's Action menu.
The Print dialog will allow you to select a printer and its set its properties, as well as to define the following print parameters:
Print All data
All data between one date and another. Type in the dates or use the calendar selection tool.
A range of pages. The total number of printed pages for the data table will be indicated.
You can also set the printer to print multiple copies.
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