"My Stock Minder^®"

Finally: A low-cost tool to help you select and manage stocks in your portfolio. Financial advisors agree: Discipline is a key component of a successful investing strategy. "My Stock Minder" helps you to be a disciplined investor while providing powerful analysis and portfolio monitoring tools.

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Item Name: "My Stock Minder" Personal Investing Assistant

Supported Platforms: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

 Price: Free

Is this product for you?

This product is designed for the individual who has at least $10,000 to invest using one of the many low-cost brokerage houses. You may have other funds at work through paid financial advisers or investment banks. However, for those funds over which you have direct control, My Stock Minder can help make you a more disciplined, profitable investor.

My Stock Minder does not require any prior knowledge of Technical Analysis or Fundamental Analysis techniques. It will, however, help to teach the user about these two key factors that make up the choice of what stocks to buy, and when to buy and sell for maximum profit.

Product Description

My Stock Minder provides an easy to use tool for selecting, researching, buying, & selling stocks as well as reference material to enhance the user's understanding of investing in the stock markets.

This powerful tool walks you through the three steps necessary to select, purchase, and sell stocks:

1. Choose Companies that are worthy of your money. Don't want to mess with Fundamentals? MSM users get free access to a secure area on the Invicis server that provides selected stocks that are well positioned for above-average returns.
2. Choose the Technical Analysis Tool from the built-in proprietary tools that will notify you when to purchase, and then sell, a stock. You can also set Stop Loss and Trailing Stop percentage values to lock in gains and limit losses. You can choose to be notified of buy and sell signals via email or SMS text message for immediate action.
3. Track your Performance with built-in portfolio management tools. Get reports showing detailed returns for each stock you purchase.

In addition to these three key areas, a "Resources" tab is provided helping you to learn more about investing, different investing styles, and to perform more research on individual companies.

All of this capability is provided without subscription fees of any kind. The price paid for the product at the time of purchase is your only out-of-pocket expense! Keeping losses and costs low and returns high is a key to producing higher yields in your portfolio.

Using My Stock Minder, investing in stocks can be profitable while still preserving your free time to enjoy the hours away from work.

An In-Depth Look at My Stock Minder

Details for each specific area of My Stock Minder are provided below - not required reading, but informative if you want to know more about how this tool works and what features it offers.

Watch Lists

My Stock Minder (MSM) provides comprehensive Watch List management tools that include the following capabilities:

• Import from a Text File. This would be used, for example, to import your current portfolio into MSM. Yahoo! Portfolios may be directly imported.
• Export to a Text File. Perhaps you want to email your watch list to a friend? Simply email them this text file.
• Move Symbols. Allows you to drag symbols from one watch list to the next.
• Import the Latest Invicis Lists. Don't know where to begin in building a watch list? Invicis continually updates a proprietary list of stocks to watch. This list is only available to users of MSM with a click of a button.
• Analyze Watch List. Allows you to move the contents of a watch list to the "Company Analyzer" (see below).

Company Analyzer

If you are to become a part-owner of a company, you want to know all you can about the company's health. How much debt is being carried? Is a dividend paid? Are earnings growing? Are sales growing? Over 50 different data items are typically available for most companies using the Company Analyzer built into MSM. You can compare a company to its peers, review & rank the proprietary Invicis score assigned to the company, and print out a report for a list of companies showing their overall health.

Can you tell which Oil Services Company Berkshire is most likely to buy from this MSM report?

Here's a screenshot of the Stock Evaluator provided in My Stock Minder.

Buy & Sell Triggers

Once you have your watch lists established, MSM will monitor these lists during market hours while your computer is running. Using proprietary technical analysis techniques, MSM will notify you when it believes is the best time to purchase a stock. Once purchased, MSM will tell you when it believes is the best time to sell.

Skeptical is what you should be about anyone or anything telling you when to buy and sell. For this reason, complete back-testing capability is provided. This allows you to see what MSM would have told you to do with a particular stock over the last few years. Although the old adage "Past performance is no promise of future results." still applies, back-testing can help build confidence in the technical analysis technique chosen.

You can view, print and save Back Testing Reports allowing you to analyze in detail the results of a specific combination of trigger parameters with the selected stock symbol.

You have the power to select the sensitivity of the selected technical analysis tool. If you don't mind receiving triggers every few days or weeks (and paying out commissions!), select "Aggressive". If you are more of a 'buy-and-hold' style investor, then select "Conservative". You'll typically receive signals no more than every few weeks (or even months or years from some stocks!).

MSM can notify you through text messaging or an email when a buy or sell trigger has occurred. Although not designed as a day-trading tool, timely notification of a signal can help increase the profitability of your purchase or sale.

Tracking Your Results

By entering each transaction you make into MSM, you'll be able to track trading costs, open and closed positions, as well as trading costs (brokerage fees). This can help you in preparing year-end tax documents and keep you informed on your progress through the year. Portfolio Reports are available to print or save for future reference.

What Next?

Still not sure My Stock Minder is for you? You can try it for free for 60 days. This is a fully functioning version of the software that simply expires after 60 days. If you like it, you can activate your copy of the software online. If MSM is not for you, it comes with an uninstaller that removes the software from your machine.