
             Welcome to the QuoteGrabber Portfolio Manager
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The QuoteGrabber is a stock market portfolio manager written in Java
that provides real-time and delayed quotes, news and charts from the
Internet. Stocks can be organized in several portfolios that display
more than twenty data items on each stock (last, bid, ask, volume,
etc.). US, Canadian, French, UK and German markets are covered at
present and more are to come. Notable features include: real-time quotes
for www.Datek.com clients, alerts based on price, variation or volume
(or a combination thereof), reordering of data columns by drag and drop,
seven different types of charts for each stock, news items can be
retrieved in full from the Internet and read in a mini-browser, also
works off-line by keeping retrieved data and charts on disk.


                              Installation
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IMPORTANT: If you don't have Java installed on your computer or if your
Java version is older than version 1.1.4 or is from Microsoft, you
should first get the jre.exe file from: 

http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/jre/
or
http://www.aparima.com/quote/jre.exe

Once you have downloaded jre.exe, run the file by double-clicking on it
or from the command-line and follow the installation procedure. You will
only need to install this file once. You won't need to repeat this step
when re-installing or upgrading the QuoteGrabber.


1) Run the QGsetup.exe file included by double-clicking on it from the
Windows Explorer. 

2) Follow the installation procedure.

3) You should now have a QuoteGrabber icon on your desktop. To run the
program double-click on the icon.


                             Program Status
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This application is distributed as shareware. It can be freely used for
up to thirty days without registration. After the evaluation period
users should purchase a personal license at the low cost of USD $25.
Secure on-line registration by credit card is available. Please visit
"http://www.aparima.com/quote/" for details.


                         Redistribution Status
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The QuoteGrabber evaluation version can be redistributed in its original
packaged form only.


                          Contact Information
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Aparima, Inc.
http://www.aparima.com  
qg@aparima.com        

