Stock Manager is a powerful stock portfolio manager for the Pocket PC platform. The program helps you keep track of your current and sold stocks. You can also keep track of stocks that should only be watched (those that you do not own). Stock Manager provides many statistics on a stock-by-stock basis and for an entire portfolio.

Current stock prices are automatically downloaded from the Internet every time you synchronize your Pocket PC thanks to a clever ActiveSync provider. Updating of your portfolio can also be done directly from your Pocket PC if you have a modem, if you connect your Pocket PC to a mobile phone. After an Internet update the program lets you know by how much your total portfolio value has increased or decreased and visual indicators also show if individual stocks have gone up or down.

Getting started quickly

It is easy to get started using Stock Manager right away:

• Install the program following the installation instructions

• Launch Stock Manager on your Pocket PC device and tap on the "New" button. You will be taken to the stock info window where you can enter all the information regarding the new stock entry you are creating.

• Download the stock information from the Internet.

The main screen shows you all your stocks in the currently selected portfolio. Tap on the column headers to change what is displayed in that column.

The 4th column shows either: if the stock has gone up or down since the last Internet update or if the stock has gone up or down during the current trading day. What exactly is displayed depends on a configurable setting in the program preferences. Double-clicking on this icon brings up the market window for the corresponding stock.

The 5th column shows whether a particular stock has a note attached to it. Double-click on this column to open an existing note or to create a new note for the corresponding stock.

Watched stocks are displayed with a little dot beside their current price, like this: . A stock that is watched is a stock that you do not own but that you still want to have around to keep track of how it is doing. Watched stocks do not influence the totals at the bottom of the screen.

Double-click on a stock to open the stock windows.

Switch Active/Sold: Click on this icon to switch the view between active and closed stocks. Active stocks refer to all the stocks that you own or are watching. When a stock is sold it is moved to the closed section and is not updated anymore during an Internet update.

Portfolios: Stock Manager can track up to 32 portfolios for you. Change portfolios or create new portfolios by clicking on the portfolio popup.

Portfolio Stats: The statistics at the bottom of the screen are for the current portfolio. To see the statistics for all your securities select "All" from the portfolio popup.

Stock Actions: The 3 stock action icons act on the currently selected stock. The icons are (from left to right):

• Calculator: Displays the stock calculator screen for the selected stock.

• Chart: Displays the chart screen for the selected stock.

• Delete: Deletes the currently selected stock.

There are other stock actions available by clicking on a stock and holding the pen down for two seconds. Stock actions:

• Edit current stock price: This action allows you to manually edit the current price of a stock. This is useful for stocks from stock exchanges not yet supported by Stock Manager. Stock Manager will update the price for all stocks that have the same symbol. Therefore even if a stock is always updated manually, it should still have a unique symbol. You can use dummy symbols such as XX01, XX02, etc.

Internet Update: Tapping on the big earth icon will display the following information:

• Date and time of the last Internet update (direct or via ActiveSync).

• Profit change: This value indicates by how much the current portfolio profit has changed since the last Internet update.

• Profit change %: The profit percent change of the current portfolio since the last Internet update.

• Change today: This value is calculated by adding all the stock change values multiplied by the number of shares owned in a particular stock. This is a good indicator to see portfolio activity on a daily basis and not since the last Internet update.

• Change %: This represents the change as a percentage with respect to the portfolio's current value.

Current Currency: Displays the currency in which the values from the 3rd column are displayed. Clicking on the currency button will toggle the display of the values between the portfolio currency and the global currency. If viewing "All" portfolios, values are shown only in the global currency. For more information see the section on currencies.

The three principal columns on the main screen can display different information about the stocks in your portfolio by tapping on the corresponding column header.

Column 1:

• Name: Displays the name given to the stock.

• Symbol: Displays the symbol of the stock.

Column 2:

• Price: The current price of the stock, either updated manually or from the Internet.

• Div.: Dividend, shows any dividend that the stock might have given. Dividends are used to calculate the profit.

• Num: Number of shares bought.

• Buy Date: When the shares were bought.

• Sell Date: When the stock was sold, useful only when viewing "closed" stocks.

Column 3:

• Profit: Current profit.

• Profit %: Current profit as a percentage.

• Profit PA: Profit per anum.

• Cost: Cost of the stock.

• C. Value: Current value of the stock.

• Fee %: Fee to buy the stock as a percentage of the cost.

• B. Price: Buy price of the stock

• Change: How much the stock has changed in the current trading day (this value is displayed as received from the Internet and is not calculated).

• Change %: The change percentage for the current trading day.

• DChange: The amount change for the current trading day. This value is calculated by multiplying the stock change value by the number of shares owned in a particular stock.

Column 4:

• Change Today: the arrows show the change today

• Change Last Update: the arrows show the change in price since the last Internet update.