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Milestones for StockCharts.com

StockCharts Support July 01, 2009

Milestones:

April 2012

  • Sector Summary area added.

March 2012

  • First official SCU Seminar held in Los Angeles.
  • European data service discontinued.
  • New version of Public ChartLists area debuts.

February 2012

  • Improved SharpCharts Workbench look rolled out with additional iPad support.
  • StockCharts.com wins Stocks & Commodities' Best Technical Web Site for 11th year in a row.
  • Added Advanced Scan Library

January 2012

  • Market Message videos with iPad support.
  • SCTR Line indicator added to SharpCharts.
  • Next version of Public ChartLists area announced.

December 2011

  • ChartCon 2012 announced for next August.
  • SCTRs added to Hompage and Scan Engine.
  • Site search upgraded.

November 2011

  • SCU Seminar series announced for LA, Seattle, NYC.
  • StockCharts Technical Rankings (SCTRs) announced.

September 2011

  • Heikin-Ashi charts added.
  • "The Canadian Technician" blog by Greg Schnell begins.
  • Canadian Dollar and Brent Crude futures added

August 2011

  • ChartCon 2011 held in Seattle.
  • StockCharts Answer Network (s.c.a.n.) user-to-user help area added. 
  • Real-time Service for European stocks begins.

July 2011

  • End-of-Day Futures contracts added.
  • Commodity indexes converted to spot-price data.
  • Correlation Coefficient indicator added.
  • Deutsche Börse stocks added.

June 2011

  • Transition to IDC datafeed completed.
  • The new StockCharts Store opens.
  • Pivot Points overlay added to SharpCharts.
  • User generated invoices added to "Your Account" page.

May 2011

  • Coverage of Euronext stocks begins.
  • New Site Map added.
  • Chip speaks in Toronto.

April 2011

  • Chip speaks in Rockville, MD.

February 2011

  • Coverage of London Stock Exchange stocks begins.
  • Chip speaks in Montreal.

January 2011

  • Chip speaks in Long Beach, CA
  • Seattle ChartCon 2011 sells out

December 2010

  • Market Message area now part of all StockCharts subscriptions
  • Seattle ChartCon 2011 announced for next August.

November 2010

  • Basic 2.0 - Basic members can now have up to 500 charts in 1 ChartList
  • Popup calendar added to Start/End range settings
  • Extra and ExtraRT members can now have up to 200 ChartLists
  • "Near Real Time" Scanning debuts
  • Chip speaks in Long Island, NY

October 2010

  • Chip speaks in Detroit, MI
  • ChartNotes 2.0 Beta
  • Date Offset popup calendar added to Scan Workbenches
  • Chip speaks in Cleveland, OH
  • ChartNotes 2.0 Officially Launched

September 2010

  • Official YouTube Channel launched
  • "Getting Started with StockCharts.com" video released
  • Scanning for Optionable stocks added
  • VWAP Overlay added
  • Official LinkedIn group launched
  • Our Facebook "Hat Photo" contest was held

August 2010

  • Added the "Top Cities" map feature
  • Chip speaks in Seattle, WA
  • In-line Comments added to Advanced Scans
  • NOT-in-group support added to Scan Engine
  • Elder Impulse System added to Scan Engine

July 2010

  • Official Facebook page launched
  • Official Twitter feed launched

June 2010

  • Chip speaks in Houston, TX
  • EMA-based Envelopes Added to SharpCharts
  • ChartSchool articles on Market Indicators updated

May 2010

  • Chip speaks in Calgary, AB
  • Added Pop-Out option to ChartNotes
  • Added Elder's Weekly New High - New Low Index

April 2010

  • Launched the "Inspect" feature providing interactive crosshairs on our charts
  • Chip speaks in Dallas, TX
  • Flash version of ChartNotes officially released
  • Elder's Impulse System added to SharpCharts

March 2010

  • Voted "Top Technical Analysis Website" by Stocks & Commodities magazine (9th year in row)
  • Chip speaks to the Sun City West's Investment Club (AZ)
  • "Share" feature for sharing charts on Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, etc.
  • Gord Greer's debut in the "Scanning Stocks" blog

February 2010

  • More ChartSchool articles added
  • Chip speaks to Portland's AAII Chapter
  • Sector and Industry categories added to Full Quote area
  • Sector and Industry categories added to Scan Results
  • Sector and Industry groups can be added to ChartLists
  • Auto-Refreshing charts for Basic members

January 2010

  • New design for Member's pages launched.
  • Flash version of ChartNotes enters Beta testing
  • Free Real-time Data from the BATS exchange added

December 2009

  • Data Updates blog launched.
  • ETF-only scan support added.
  • Usage Tips added to bottom of SharpCharts Workbench

November 2009

  • CandleGlance, PerfCharts, and GalleryView pages redesigned
  • Customer Loyalty program launched.
  • Twitter Feed added.
  • Redesigned "Free Charts" page launched.

October 2009

  • Annotated Breadth Charts added to Art's Charts area.
  • Investing Quotations added to bottom of most pages.

August 2009

  • Added Top Ten lists for NYSE, Nasdaq, and TSX to our homepage

July 2009

  • Added auto-complete when searching for ticker symbols
  • Added more scan indicators which are TRIX, %B, DPO, Force Index, Money Flow Index, Slope, Standard Deviation, Keltner Channels, Price Channels, and MA Envelopes.
  • SharpCharts workbench updated with the new site design

June 2009

  • Added auto-complete when searching for ticker symbols
  • Added more scan indicators which are TRIX, %B, DPO, Force Index, Money Flow Index, Slope, Standard Deviation, Keltner Channels, Price Channels, and MA Envelopes.
  • SharpCharts workbench updated with the new site design

May 2009

  • Fiber Gigabit Connection installed
  • New home page design released

April 2009

  • Celebrated our 10-year Anniversary!
  • New Support site launched
  • Introduced VWAP in full quote area

March 2009

  • Re-launched the "StockCharts' Market Message with John Murphy"
  • Received our 8th consecutive "Reader's Choice" award from Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine

January 2009

July 2008

  • Added support for Pinned annotations
  • Prices (unfortunately) increased by $5 per month

June 2008

  • ChartNotes improvements including more Fibo lines and perfect circles/squares

May 2008

  • Ichimoku Cloud charts added

April 2008

  • Kagi and Renko charts added
  • Reached 20,000 active subscribers
  • Received our 7th consecutive "Reader's Choice" award from Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine

January 2008

  • "TickerRain" starts falling - a real-time display of our chart requests
  • "Top Pick" in the AAII annual survey of Investing Products

September 2007

  • "TickerCloud" allows you to see which stocks are popular

June 2007

  • New Datacenter completed - better cooling, power backup
  • Thomson Data Feed failure causes lots of problems

April 2007

  • Inadequate switches cause network problems
  • Improved switches get us to Gigabit-speed networking

January 2007

  • Arthur Hill returns and starts contributing to the Market Message

July 2006

  • Auto-Refreshing charts added for Extra members

May 2006

  • Extra members converted to SharpCharts2

April 2006

March 2006

  • All free users converted to SharpCharts2
  • Received Reader's Choice Award from Stocks & Commodities magazine (5th year in a row)

February 2006

  • SharpCharts2 Beta 7 debuts
  • Candleglance and Gallery views converted to SC2

January 2006

  • Reached 15,000 active subscribers

November 2005

  • Donated over $42,000 to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort
  • Completely revamped ChartSchool

June 2005

  • Reached 10,000 active subscribers

March 2005

  • SharpCharts2 Beta 6 debuts
  • Received Reader's Choice Award from Stocks & Commodities magazine (4th year in a row)

February 2005

  • SharpCharts 2 Beta 5 debuts
  • Beta 5 Discussion Area opens
  • Point and Figure Price Objectives article added

January 2005

  • Emily Ivie joins the StockCharts.com development team
  • InvestorFlix added to StockCharts.com Bookstore options
  • Upgrades to charting infrastructure completed

November 2004

  • RSS Feed for StockCharts.com Bookstore added
  • Gaps and Gap Analysis article added

October 2004

  • Received "Top Site" designation from AAII's Annual Guide to the Top Investment Sites
  • StockCharts.com Bookstore opens Bargain Books section

September 2004

  • Receives Honorable Mention for Technical Analysis from Barron's Online
  • Stockcharts.com Bookstore expands
  • ThompsonONE becomes data provider

August 2004

  • "Tools Tour" debuts
  • Multicollinearity and Swing Charting articles added

June 2004

  • New Bookstore design debuts
  • Glossary revamp
  • TRIX, Money Flow, Price Channel articles added

May 2004

  • SharpCharts2 Beta 4 released
  • Overlaid charting
  • 10% Off Bookstore items for all Market Message subscribers

April 2004

  • SharpCharts2 Beta 3 released
  • Money Flow Index added
  • P&F Price-by-Volume added
  • "John Murphy's Market Message" area on StockCharts.com debuts

March 2004

  • Received Reader's Choice Award from Stocks & Commodities magazine (3rd year in a row)
  • SharpCharts2 Beta 2 released
  • New Site Tour
  • Reversal Markers on P&F Charts
  • Updated Gallery and CandleGlance charts

February 2004

  • New Market Message design
  • Historical Chart Gallery update
  • SharpCharts2 Beta 1 released

January 2004

  • Automatic FAQ answers
  • Glossary expansion doubles its size
  • P&F color schemes, Bollinger Bands

December 2003

  • Gift Subscriptions now available
  • Cell phone version debuts

November 2003

  • First look at SharpCharts2!
  • Increased bandwidth and Internet coverage.

October 2003

  • Price Objectives added to our Graphical P&F Charts
  • New homepage design debuts

September 2003

  • Intraday P&F Charts added
  • $ONE indicator added for inversion charts

August 2003

  • New look for our Graphical P&F Charts

July 2003

  • Re-designed FAQ area debuts

June 2003

  • New Design for ChartWatchers

May 2003

  • Appearance at the Las Vegas Money Show
  • Getting Started with Scans tutorial launched

April 2003

  • Our new Online Book Store debuts

March 2003

  • Received Reader's Choice Award from Stocks & Commodities magazine (2nd year in a row)
  • Getting Started with StockCharts tutorial launched
  • Appearances at the Florida Money Show and NY Online Trading Expo

February 2003

  • Extra Real-Time service begins!

December 2002

  • Redesigned Newsletter debuts

October 2002

  • StockCharts acquires MurphyMorris.com

June 2002

  • New and Improved Market Carpet released
  • Advanced Site Search available
  • Intraday Scans added!
  • Improvements to scan results options made

May 2002

  • Portrait and Landscape chart sized added to SharpCharts tool
  • Improved usability for ChartNotes annotation tool
  • Weekly scan support finally added!
  • SuperCarpets introduced

March 2002

  • Voted Top Technical Analysis Website by readers of Stocks & Commodities magazine
  • ChartWatchers Weekly moves to bi-weekly schedule
  • Expanded data added to scan engine

February 2002

  • P&F "preference" added for Basic and Extra! members
  • MACD Histogram and Bollinger Band Width indicators added

January 2002

  • Basic subscription service started
  • P&F support added to Favorites lists, GalleryView, and CandleGlance view
  • Membership Maintenance page added

December 2001

  • Began accepting advance orders for our new Basic service
  • Improved speed for user-defined scans
  • Graphical P&F charts added

November 2001

  • Basic Subscription service will take effect on 1-Jan
  • Automatic Subscription renewals now available
  • Historic Data Adjustments page added
  • Featured in Forbes magazine's "Best of the Web"

September 2001

  • Arthur Hill's commentary back in the newsletter
  • Animated Introduction to the Site added
  • StockCharts.com now powers MurphyMorris.com and DecisionPoint.com

August 2001

  • Chart Annotations become "Live"
  • Ability to store up to 8 different custom chart settings (Extra! users)
  • Custom Settings now stored on StockCharts.com servers (Extra! users)
  • "Default Setting" feature available for Custom Settings (Extra! users)
  • User * Defined Scans Hall Of Fame debuts
  • Public Favorites Lists debuts
  • Intraday S&P Indices added to database

July 2001

  • Extra! referral program begins
  • Upgraded Nasdaq and NYSE McClellan Charts

June 2001

  • Annotated SnapShots can be stored on our server
  • Linear regression lines and magnifier added to ChartNotes
  • Favorite lists can be viewed as MarketCarpets
  • Database server upgraded
  • Scan results saved as a Favorites list
  • Scans run against contents of a Favorites list
  • Scan results linked to chart containing scan's indicators

May 2001

  • T3 Internet connection doubles site bandwidth
  • StockCharts/DecisionPoint partnership announced
  • Richard Rhodes newsletter column debuts
  • StockCharts Extra! Beta test begins
  • Chart sizes up to 1600 pixels wide
  • User-defined scans added
  • Multiple Favorites Lists
  • MurphyMorris website re-launched as part of StockCharts.com
  • Scan results can be viewed as a MarketCarpet

April 2001

  • ChartNotes annotation applet entered Beta test
  • Scan summary reports
  • Improved candlestick scans
  • More technical scans added
  • StockCharts Extra! premium service announced

March 2001

  • Bullish Percent Charts added
  • User-defined CandleGlance pages
  • John Murphy's newsletter column debuts
  • CandleGlance Voyeur added

February 2001

  • Honor System contribution box added
  • Home page redesign
  • Price by Volume overlay added

January 2001

  • SharpCharts converted to PNG format
  • P&F scans added

December 2000

  • Historical Data added
  • PDF versions of Chart School articles added
  • Intraday charts added

November 2000

  • Classic "Text" Point & Figure charts added
  • Monthly charts added to SharpCharts
  • Intraday Chart Voyeur added

October 2000

  • (Yet another) New Site design launched
  • Intraday Market Carpets added
  • Fidelity Funds Market Carpet added

September 2000

  • Expanded Favorite Charts capability
  • "Market Carpets" debuts
  • Print option added to all commentary
  • Gallery View capability added for any stock

August 2000

  • StockWatch column format changed
  • Complete Canadian data available

July 2000

  • PerfChart applet redesigned
  • SharpCharts Voyeur page added
  • Ability to draw trendlines on P&F Charts added
  • Datafeed change to Primark A-T Financial
  • Intraday bars added to SharpCharts
  • 1st HTML version of ChartWatchersWeekly mailed

June 2000

  • Audio commentary added to Richard Rhodes column
  • Chart Pattern section added to Education Center
  • Gap scans added

May 2000

  • SharpCharts1 candlestick charts debuts
  • Dynamic Yield Curve applet added
  • "My Favorites" feature added to SharpCharts tool

April 2000

  • Handheld edition of site launched
  • Historical charts for Dow dating back to 1900 added
  • Toronto Stock Exchange added to site database

March 2000

  • Education Center redesign completed
  • Richard Rhodes debuts as a regular columnists

February 2000

  • Market ChartTour by Arthur Hill debuts
  • PerfChart Gallery and Site Map added

January 2000

  • The New Millennium!
  • RSS/My Netscape capability added
  • Joined About.com's "Luna" ad network

December 1999

  • Atomz search capability added to site
  • Scott McCormick added as regular columnist
  • User * defined PerfCharts added

November 1999

  • Indicator series of articles added to Education Center
  • Point and Figure charts for Mutual Funds added
  • Industry Comparison PerfCharts developed by John Murphy added
  • New color scheme introduced to site

October 1999

  • John Murphy debuts as regular columnist
  • Acquired Arthur Hill's TD Trader website
  • StockWatch column by Arthur Hill debuts

September 1999

  • Site re-design launched
  • Stock Scans and Bookstore added

August 1999

  • First 3 employees hired at StockCharts.com
  • Interactive Point and Figure applet introduced
  • Sentiment Charts and Walker Market Letter added

July 1999

  • PerfChart applet rated in "Top 5% of Java Applets on the Internet" by J.A.R.S.
  • PerfChart applet functionality expanded

June 1999

  • Bond and Interest Rate section added
  • Rex Takasugi and Arthur Hill added as regular columnists
  • Homepage redesigned (first of many)
  • "Chart of the Week" feature added
  • Mailbag column added

May 1999

  • StockCharts.com launched!
  • StockCharts.com, Inc. founded
  • StockCharts.com domain name acquired
 
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