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Market Intelligence Express (MIE)

User Guide ﹙Version 1.3.4﹚

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 1 of 57 Table of Content

Table of Content......................................................................................................................... 1 Table of Figures ......................................................................................................................... 3 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 5 2. Navigation.............................................................................................................................. 6

2.1 Screen Layout 1 .............................................................................................................. 6 3. Securities (HK)....................................................................................................................... 8

3.1 Quotation......................................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Transaction Summary ................................................................................................... 14 3.3 Active Securities (Top 20 ranking list) ........................................................................... 16

3.3.1 Select the top 20-ranking list .................................................................................. 17 3.3.2 Adjust the display diagram...................................................................................... 17

3.4 Fundamental ................................................................................................................. 18 3.5 Teletext Pages............................................................................................................... 20 3.6 Streamer........................................................................................................................ 21

3.6.1 Select the stock to display ...................................................................................... 21 3.6.2 Additional rows........................................................................................................ 21 3.6.3 Presentation of portfolios ........................................................................................ 21

3.7 ChartWinner .................................................................................................................. 23 3.9 Indices ........................................................................................................................... 25 3.10 Warrant Watch............................................................................................................. 26

3.10.1 To display linked warrants..................................................................................... 26 3.10.2 Colour ................................................................................................................... 28 3.10.3 Money & Time Value............................................................................................. 28

4. Futures (HK) ........................................................................................................................ 29 4.1 Futures Page................................................................................................................. 29 4.2 Future Tick Chart........................................................................................................... 30 4.3 Options .......................................................................................................................... 31 4.4 Futures Market Depth.................................................................................................... 32 4.5 Options Market Depth ................................................................................................... 33

5. Tools..................................................................................................................................... 34 5.1 Broker Watch................................................................................................................. 34 5.2 Broker Highlighter/ Filter ............................................................................................... 36 5.3 Price Alert ...................................................................................................................... 37 5.4 Company Search........................................................................................................... 39

6. Market Move ........................................................................................................................ 40 6.1 AA Market Move – Monitor ............................................................................................ 40

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6.2 AA Market Move – Search............................................................................................. 41 7. News.................................................................................................................................... 42 8. Other Markets ...................................................................................................................... 44

8.1 World Indices................................................................................................................. 44 8.2 Forex ............................................................................................................................. 45

9. Setting.................................................................................................................................. 46 9.1 Producing your own window layout............................................................................... 46 9.2 Window Setting Menu ................................................................................................... 48 9.3 General Setting ............................................................................................................. 49

9.3.1 Colour Scheme ....................................................................................................... 49 9.3.2 Font Size................................................................................................................. 49 9.3.3 Choice of Window Display ...................................................................................... 49

10. Setup ................................................................................................................................. 50 10.1 Language Selection..................................................................................................... 50 10.2 Layout Selection.......................................................................................................... 51 10.3 Save/Load Layout ....................................................................................................... 51

10.3.1 Save as Default Layout......................................................................................... 51 10.3.2 Save Layout.......................................................................................................... 52 10.3.3 Load Layout .......................................................................................................... 52

11. FAQ.................................................................................................................................... 53 11.1 Check for Updates....................................................................................................... 53 11.2 Upgrades ..................................................................................................................... 55

12. System Requirements ....................................................................................................... 57 12.1 Hardware..................................................................................................................... 57 12.2 Software ...................................................................................................................... 57 12.3 Network ....................................................................................................................... 57

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 3 of 57 Table of Figures

Figure 2.1.1. Screen Layout 1 ................................................................................................... 6 Figure 3.0.1 Securities Menu..................................................................................................... 8 Figure 3.1.1 Quotation Screen .................................................................................................. 9 Figure 3.1.2 Price Snapshot and Summary............................................................................. 10 Figure 3.1.3 Order queue and Transaction Log ...................................................................... 10 Figure 3.1.4 Broker Queue in Broker Number..........................................................................11 Figure 3.1.5 Broker Queue in Broker Name.............................................................................11 Figure 3.1.6 Transaction Summary in Bar Chart ..................................................................... 12 Figure 3.1.7 Transaction Summary in Line Chart.................................................................... 12 Figure 3.1.8 Technical Analysis data of underlying stock ........................................................ 12 Figure 3.1.9 Warrants Information........................................................................................... 13 Figure 3.2.1 Detailed transaction summary of a selected stock.............................................. 14 Figure 3.2.2 Transaction Summary in details .......................................................................... 15 Figure 3.3.1 Real-time streaming ranking list of market statistics........................................... 16 Figure 3.3.2 Menu Bar in Active Securities Screen ................................................................. 17 Figure 3.4.1 Fundamental Screen ........................................................................................... 18 Figure 3.4.2 View more fundamental date by clicking the items on pull-down menu.............. 19 Figure 3.5.1 Type in the page code to view the Financial Information Pages from HKEx ...... 20 Figure 3.6.1 Streamer Screen ................................................................................................. 21 Figure 3.6.2 Track up to 25 stocks in the Streamer to trace the ups and downs of the market

................................................................................................................................................. 22 Figure 3.7.1 ChartWinner Screen............................................................................................ 23 Figure 3.8.1 Block Trades Screen ........................................................................................... 24 Figure 3.9.1 Indices Screen..................................................................................................... 25 Figure 3.10.1 Real-time streaming warrants data of an underlying stock ............................... 26 Figure 3.10.1.1 Total number of linked number of the linked warrants.................................... 27 Figure 3.10.1.2 Filtering function of Warrant Watch ................................................................ 27 Figure 4.0.1 Futures Menu ...................................................................................................... 29 Figure 4.1.1 Real-time Streaming Price Information on Futures market ................................. 29 Figure 4.1.2 Pull-down Menu of Futures Page........................................................................ 30 Figure 4.2.1 Real-time tick chart reflects the trend of HSIF .................................................... 30 Figure 4.3.1 Real-time Streaming Price Information on Options including spot, next and those

forth-coming months of settlement .......................................................................................... 31 Figure 4.4.1 Market quotes of futures with bid/ask queue....................................................... 32 Figure 4.5.1 Real-time market quotes on options with bid/ask queue .................................... 33 Figure 5.0.1 Tools Menu .......................................................................................................... 34

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 4 of 57 Figure 5.1.1 Broker Watch displays the buying/selling a specific broker currently ................. 35 Figure 5.1.2 Point over stock code to show the stock name................................................... 35 Figure 5.2.1 Highlighting or filtering broker from the list.......................................................... 36 Figure 5.2.2 Highlight effect showing in bid/ask broker queues.............................................. 37 Figure 5.3.1 Price Alert in Window Category........................................................................... 37 Figure 5.3.2 Price alert criteria along with real-time streaming quotes of the stocks.............. 37 Figure 5.3.3 Price Alert pop-up window................................................................................... 38 Figure 5.4.1 Search Company by entering either stock code or name ................................... 39 Figure 6.1.1 AA Market Move .................................................................................................. 40 Figure 6.1.2 News Close-up .................................................................................................... 40 Figure 6.1.3 Particular categories of news can be selected by checking relevant box........... 41 Figure 6.2.1 Search market move by different categories....................................................... 41 Figure 7.0.1 Watch the latest market news at News Main Page............................................. 42 Figure 8.1.1 Receive global indices of the major markets....................................................... 44 Figure 8.2.1 Forex (Real-time Streaming details).................................................................... 45 Figure 9.1.1 Screen Layout 2 .................................................................................................. 46 Figure 9.1.2 Screen Layout 3 .................................................................................................. 47 Figure 9.2.1 Window Setting Menu ......................................................................................... 48 Figure 9.3.1.1 To select colour scheme................................................................................... 49 Figure 9.3.2.1 To select font size............................................................................................. 49 Figure 9.3.3.1 To choose layout display .................................................................................. 49 Figure 10.0.1 Setup Menu ....................................................................................................... 50 Figure 10.1.1 Language Selection........................................................................................... 50 Figure 10.2.1 Layout selection ................................................................................................ 51 Figure 10.3.1.1 Pop-up message when you save successfully .............................................. 51 Figure 10.3.2.1 Pop-up window to save layout ....................................................................... 52 Figure 10.3.3.1 Pop-up window to load layout ........................................................................ 52 Figure 11.1.1 Click to check the existing version of MIE ......................................................... 53 Figure 11.1.2 Check for existing version ................................................................................. 53 Figure 11.1.3 Check for updates ............................................................................................. 54 Figure 11.1.4 Pop-up window to notify you the latest version ................................................. 54 Figure 11.2.1 Upgrade key in Program Menu.......................................................................... 55 Figure 11.2.2 Start to download and install.............................................................................. 55 Figure 11.2.3 Finish upgrade................................................................................................... 56

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 5 of 57 1. Introduction

Market Intelligence Express (MIE) – is a multi-window financial information application to

deliver real-time market data on your PC through Internet. You can open three to six windows

for each category and freely enlarge or reduce the size of each window to fit the screen. Its

content includes Cash Market, Futures, Options, Quotes, News and incorporating with

Analytics, Charts, and more intelligent decision support tools. These professional level

innovative tools help you succeed in today’s fast-paced market. This manual describes the

functions and features of the Quote Winner system and informs you how to get market quotes,

news and do research.

Users must install the software to run MIE. After installation, the software can be run by clicking

icon on the desktop or MIE in the program file in the computer.

MIE contains the following categories:

1. Securities Quotation (Real-time Streaming detailed stock quotes with broker queue

showing the broker number and broker name) 2. Transaction Summary (Price-Volume Distribution Analysis) 3. Active Securities 4. Fundamental 5. Teletext Page 6. Streamer (Making of your own portfolio) 7. ChartWinner Pro (Interactive Java chart with technical analysis and charting tools) 8. Block Trade 9. Indices 10. Warrant Watch (Real-time streaming warrants analysis and chartings) 11. Futures (Price Information on Futures) 12. Future Tick Chart 13. Options (Price Information on Options) 14. Futures Market Depth 15. Options Market Depth 16. Broker Watch (Real-time streaming broker buying and selling) 17. Broker Highlighter/ Filter 18. Price Alert 19. Company Search 20. AA Market Move 21. News 22. World Indices 23. Forex 24. Language Selection (Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese/English)

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 6 of 57 2. Navigation

2.1 Screen Layout 1

Figure 2.1.1. Screen Layout 1

Menu Bar

• The menu bar is on top of the MIE Desk Panel.

• A pull-down menu appears when you click on the category button, such as

Securities(HK), Futures(HK) or Tools.

Real-time streaming Hang Seng Indices

• Market quotes for Hang Seng Index, Hang Seng Index Future, Hang Seng

China-Affiliated Corporation Index, Hang Seng China Enterprise Index & Market

Turnover.

Desk Panel

• Specify and display a category after clicking on a button on the Menu Bar.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 7 of 57 Tool Bar

• Show the current time.

• Show the windows opened and Price Alert function.

• Minimize or open all windows by clicking on .

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 8 of 57 3. Securities (HK)

A list of categories appears when you click on “Securities (HK)” in Menu Bar. Users can check

real time stock Quotation, Transaction Summary, Active Securities, Fundamentals, Teletext

Pages, Streamer, ChartWinner Pro, Block Trades, Indices, Warrant Watch H/Red-Chip / GEM

shares and H / Red-Chip Shares.

Figure 3.0.1 Securities Menu

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 9 of 57 3.1 Quotation

Clicking the “Quotation” button will show you the price information of the stock.

Figure 3.1.1 Quotation Screen

(a) Enter the stock code (for example: 0001) in the “Stock Code” text box and press “Enter”.

Information about the selected stock will be shown.

(b) Stock prices including Day High/Low, Open, Previous Close, Nominal, Change (%),

Volume, Turnover, Spread/Lot Size, P/E Ratio, Yield (%), Shares Issued and Market Cap.

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Figure 3.1.2 Price Snapshot and Summary

(c) Bid, Ask queue, Transaction Log

Figure 3.1.3 Order queue and Transaction Log

(d) Broker Queue

• Broker queue in broker number appears when you click on [ ] icon.

• Broker queue in broker name appears when you click on [ ] icon.

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Figure 3.1.4 Broker Queue in Broker Number

Figure 3.1.5 Broker Queue in Broker Name

(e) Transaction Summary in Charts

• Transaction summary in bar chart when you click on [ ] icon.

• Transaction summary in line chart when you click on [ ] icon.

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Figure 3.1.6 Transaction Summary in Bar Chart

Figure 3.1.7 Transaction Summary in Line Chart

(f) Technical Analysis Data

Figure 3.1.8 Technical Analysis data of underlying stock

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 13 of 57 (g) Warrant Information

• Click on the stock code below Technical Analysis Indicators Section to display a stock

quote in Quotation screen.

• Click on “Next” or “Prv.” for next or previous page respectively.

Figure 3.1.9 Warrants Information

CALL – Call Warrants

PUT – Put Warrants

ELI – Equity Linked Information

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 14 of 57 3.2 Transaction Summary

Clicking the“Transaction Summary”button will show you the all transaction logs in a trading

day including price, share, weight (%) and weight on total (%) in both tables and charts.

Figure 3.2.1 Detailed transaction summary of a selected stock

(a) Select to view the price-volume distribution diagram or transaction details

• View the price-volume distribution diagram or transaction details when you click on

[ ] icon.

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Figure 3.2.2 Transaction Summary in details

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 16 of 57 3.3 Active Securities (Top 20 ranking list)

Figure 3.3.1 Real-time streaming ranking list of market statistics

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 17 of 57 3.3.1 Select the top 20-ranking list

(a) Clicking on the menu bar at the bottom of the Active Securities Screen.

They are: Top 20 Net Gainers/ Losers, Percentage Gainers/ Losers, Turnover, Volume, of

Stock/ Warrants/ GEM, and 52-week High/ Low.

Figure 3.3.2 Menu Bar in Active Securities Screen

3.3.2 Adjust the display diagram

(a) Adjust the column width as you like.

(b) Switch the columns with each others by holding and moving the columns to your preferred

position.

Figure 3.3.3 Adjust the columns

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 18 of 57 3.4 Fundamental

(a) It contains Company Profile, Corporate Information, Dividend, Balance Sheet, Earnings,

Profit/Loss, Financial Ratios, Linked Warrants, Basic Market Data, Latest Results, as well

as insightful information of Cash Flow Statements, Dividend History, Capital Raised and

Share Buybacks for each particular stock.

Figure 3.4.1 Fundamental Screen

(b) For other fundamental data, selecting the item by pulling down the menu and clicking on

the item name.

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Figure 3.4.2 View more fundamental date by clicking the items on pull-down menu.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 20 of 57 3.5 Teletext Pages

The Teletext Pages show the Financial information from HKEx. They are Hang Seng Index,

Index Futures, HSI Options, Index & Turnover, Stock Options, Most Active Options, Summary,

Exercised Trades, Government Bond Index, MSCI Index, Listed Equity Index (ELI) and Index

of ELI Issuers.

Figure 3.5.1 Type in the page code to view the Financial Information Pages from HKEx

(a) View the Financial information of indices or stock options by either entering page code in

the text box or selecting from the pull-down menu one by one.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 21 of 57 3.6 Streamer

Streamer provides real-time streaming of up to 25 stock quotes, flashing for fields with updated

data. Information includes Company Name, Opening Price, Current Price, Change in $/%, Bid/

Ask Price, Bid/Ask Volume, Bid/Ask Trend, Volume, Turnover, PE/PRE, GEAR and Hi/Lo.

Figure 3.6.1 Streamer Screen

3.6.1 Select the stock to display

(a) Type the stock code in the Stock Code Text Box and then press Enter. After inserting all

stock codes, then press “APPLY”. The information about the selected stocks will be

shown.

(b) Press “SAVE” and then all the type-in stock codes will be saved.

(c) Press “CLEAR” to clear all selected stock(s).

3.6.2 Additional rows

(a) There are only 10 rows showing in the Streamer Screen, press “Add ROW” to add up to 25

rows.

(b) Columns can be adjusted up to your choice.

3.6.3 Presentation of portfolios

(a) To have a clear presentation of stocks into different portfolios, just leave the row blank by

not entering any numbers in the Stock Code Text Box.

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Figure 3.6.2 Track up to 25 stocks in the Streamer to trace the ups and downs of the market

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 23 of 57 3.7 ChartWinner

Chart Winner Pro allows you to track real-time market data, compares and does analysis. The

up-to-the-second update and easy to use interface enable you to keep track of the market

trend closely. It can provide you charts in daily, weekly, monthly time intervals, create charts in

1-min, 3-min, 5-min, 10-min, 15-min, 30-min, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly time intervals.

At the same time, you can find the support and resistant price level.

Figure 3.7.1 ChartWinner Screen

The Left Tool Bar mainly helps you to analyze the chart in a more clear way. The Top Tool Bar

lets you to choose the time interval and chart type for displaying the charts. Moreover, you can

set parameters for technical analysis of your charts by putting mouse over particular chart and

right clicking to show the menu for your choice.

Please refer to Chart Winner Pro User Manual (Version 1.01).

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 24 of 57 3.8 Block Trades

(a) To tell whether institutions and large investors are bullish or bearish on a stock. Block

Trade contains information about total block trades, the block trades over market price, the

block trades under market price, and a list of all block trades transactions.

(b) An amount of turnover or number of shares exceeding five hundred thousand is shown.

Users can sort the transactions by clicking on the name of each column.

Figure 3.8.1 Block Trades Screen

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 25 of 57 3.9 Indices

Indices provides information about Hong Kong Market Indices, like HSI, the other HSI family

indices and GEM, etc. All data reflect the real-time index level, change and change (%).

Figure 3.9.1 Indices Screen

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 26 of 57 3.10 Warrant Watch

Warrant Watch provides you real-time streaming information about stock and indices.

Figure 3.10.1 Real-time streaming warrants data of an underlying stock

3.10.1 To display linked warrants

(a) Enter the underlying stock code and then press "Enter" or click the "Confirm" button. It

begins to receive the real-time streaming quote of the underlying and the display will be

automatically populated with the linked warrants of the underlying stock.

(b) The number next to Linked Warrants tells the total number of warrants related to the

underlying. The window displays maximum up to 15 warrants each page at a time, and the

Backward and Forward buttons are clickable to move page by page.

(c) Click on the check box next to Call Warrants or Put Warrants to see call or put warrants

only.

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Figure 3.10.1.1 Total number of linked number of the linked warrants

To select the warrants you want, just check the box next to the codes and click "Confirm". Or

You can filter out the warrants by clicking the "Filter" button and put those filtered warrants into

the text box under Excluded Warrants. When the Filter function is activated, the Filter button

becomes red.

Figure 3.10.1.2 Filtering function of Warrant Watch

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 28 of 57 3.10.2 Colour

When the fields flash green, it means the current values of the items are higher than the

previous ones. Conversely, when the fields flash red, it means the current values of the items

are lower than the previous values; however, for the items of Bid Size, Ask Size and Volume,

when they receive data updates, they flash orange.

The Change field indicates green when the current price is higher than or equal to the previous

close. It indicates red when the current price is lower than the previous close.

3.10.3 Money & Time Value

Money & Time value is an indicator to illustrate the outstanding days (remaining trading days)

and moneyness (the degree that a warrant is in the money/out of the money).

(a) Time value

The length of the bar represents the length of the outstanding period of the warrant while the

number represents the days to maturity.

The days to maturity mean the number of days remaining until the warrant expiries.

For the full length of the bar, it represents the last 200 outstanding days of the warrant. The

shorter the bar is, the less the trading days remains. For the warrant with more than 200

outstanding days, the bar reaches its full.

(b) Moneyness

The colour of the bar indicates the depth of the moneyness of the warrant. Moneyness

measures how far the strike price of the warrant is from the prevailing price of the underlying

spot.

To explain the colour of the bar, we set the following palette:

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 29 of 57 4. Futures (HK)

This category gives you real-time streaming tick chart and pricing information about stock or

index futures and options. Moreover, Futures and Option Market Depth even provide detailed

bid/ask queues.

Figure 4.0.1 Futures Menu

4.1 Futures Page

Selecting from the pull down menu that shows market quotes of Futures listed in Hong Kong

Futures Exchange (HKFE).

Figure 4.1.1 Real-time Streaming Price Information on Futures market

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Figure 4.1.2 Pull-down Menu of Futures Page

4.2 Future Tick Chart

Future Tick Chart gives you the trend of HSIF or Mini HSIF in current or next month in a

real-time tick chart.

Figure 4.2.1 Real-time tick chart reflects the trend of HSIF

• Select from the pull-down menu to view the trend of HSIF or Mini HSIF.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 31 of 57 4.3 Options

Selecting from the pull down menu that shows market quotes of Options listed Hong Kong

Futures Exchange.

Figure 4.3.1 Real-time Streaming Price Information on Options including spot, next and those

forth-coming months of settlement

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 32 of 57 4.4 Futures Market Depth

Futures Market Depth gives you information not only market quotes and transaction volume of

futures listed in HKFE, but also bid/ask queue of the best 5 orders of selected future.

Figure 4.4.1 Market quotes of futures with bid/ask queue

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 33 of 57 4.5 Options Market Depth

Options Market Depth provides real-time options information including spot, next and

forth-coming months of settlement in options market in addition with bid/ask queue of the best

5 orders of options.

Figure 4.5.1 Real-time market quotes on options with bid/ask queue

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 34 of 57 5. Tools

This category provides you additional tools to assist you to make successful investment in the

stock market like Broker Watch, Broker Highlighter/Filter, Price Alert and Company Search.

Figure 5.0.1 Tools Menu

5.1 Broker Watch

Clicking the “Broker Watch” button allows you to view all stocks that are currently queued on a

specific broker's bid and ask queues. It shows all the buying and selling orders of the broker

listed in the broker queues. You can see stock codes, bid/ask price levels and number of

orders.

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Figure 5.1.1 Broker Watch displays the buying/selling a specific broker currently

Figure 5.1.2 Point over stock code to show the stock name

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 36 of 57 5.2 Broker Highlighter/ Filter

This function helps you to highlight or filter particular brokers from the whole of the market. It

lets you have a clear picture of your selected brokers.

Figure 5.2.1 Highlighting or filtering broker from the list

• The effect of highlight/filter will be shown on the Quotation page. Highlighted brokers

will be shown in red colour. Filtered brokers will remain while the others will be filtered

away in the bid/ask broker queues.

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Figure 5.2.2 Highlight effect showing in bid/ask broker queues

5.3 Price Alert

Price Alert provides various parameter settings to keep track of the market movements from

Bid/Ask to the upper/lower limit of the price, helping to meet your personal preferences. Apart

from clicking under “Tools”, you can also display it by clicking under “Window” or bottom Tool

Bar.

Figure 5.3.1 Price Alert in Window Category

Figure 5.3.2 Price alert criteria along with real-time streaming quotes of the stocks

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 38 of 57 How to use:

(a) Enter stock codes in the Stock code input box to select the required stock.

(b) Enter values into the input boxes of Above/Below, Up$/Down$, Up%/Down%, Bid/Ask,

and Volume to set the alerts.

(c) Tick the box at top right-hand corner to select alerting by sound or pop-up window or

both.

(d) You can also choose “Remove All” to remove all setting, “Re/De-activate” to

re-activate or de-activate price alert of particular stock, “Save Setting” to save all price

alert you have set or “Stop All” to stop all price alerts.

Alert Tips:

• Above – trigger an alert if the price goes up above this value

• Below – trigger an alert if the price goes down below this value

• Up$/Down$ – trigger an alert if the price goes up/goes down more than this dollar

amount (based on previous day close)

• Up%/Down% – trigger an alert if the price goes up/goes down more than this

percentage (based on previous day close)

• Bid – trigger an alert if the bid price falls below or equals the input of the value

• Ask – trigger an alert if the ask price goes up above or equals the input of the value

• Volume – trigger an alert if the daily trading volume exceeds this amount

Figure 5.3.3 Price Alert pop-up window

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 39 of 57 5.4 Company Search

Apart from entering stock code to find out relevant company, you can type in either the whole

company name or part of it, then all company with relevant words will be displayed. Moreover,

you can choose searching company in GEM or Main Board only. The status of the company

such as being suspended or active will also be shown.

Figure 5.4.1 Search Company by entering either stock code or name

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 40 of 57 6. Market Move

AA Market Move reports you with unusual price up, down or fluctuations immediately. The

latest news and report of block trades will be shown automatically.

6.1 AA Market Move – Monitor

You can click “All Categories” to view news of all market movements or “Select Categories” to

view particular categories of news and reports related to price fluctuation, price rise or drop,

suspension/resumption or block trades.

Figure 6.1.1 AA Market Move

• You can click the icon in the top right-hand corner to print the whole piece of news or

report.

Figure 6.1.2 News Close-up

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Figure 6.1.3 Particular categories of news can be selected by checking relevant box

6.2 AA Market Move – Search

To search particular type of news or reports of market move, you can click “Search” or “AA

Market Move – Search” under “AA Market Move” in the Top Menu Bar. News of latest market

move can be searched by stock, price fluctuation, price rise/drop, block trades or

suspension/resumption.

Figure 6.2.1 Search market move by different categories

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 42 of 57 7. News

Figure 7.0.1 Watch the latest market news at News Main Page

(a) Click on the “News” Button to view the news of Hong Kong Market Reports and other news

categories.

(b) Click on the folders of All, DJ, AFX, SEHK, latest, markets, and Company News to view

specific news.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 43 of 57 All News –

• Display all kinds of new headlines including AFX, SEHK, latest, markets and company

news.

DJ News –

• Display news released by DJ.

AFX News –

• Display news released by AFX.

SEHK News –

• List news & announcements issued by Hong Kong Stock Exchange, categorized into

Main Board Listing News, GEM Listing News, Compliance News & Exchange News

• Type in a stock code at the top right corner to sort out the SEHK news of the specified

stock.

Latest News –

• Display all news headlines from all of news sources available.

Market News –

• Display all the news headlines about Hong Kong Financial Market

Company News –

• List all news headlines related to a selected stock.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 44 of 57 8. Other Markets

8.1 World Indices

(a) World Indices provides stock indices including Hong Kong Market Indices, Asian Market

Indices, World Market Indices, and.

(b) Click on the icons of the Intraday Indices to view the intra day quotes of all HSI family

indices in 5-minute intervals.

Figure 8.1.1 Receive global indices of the major markets

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 45 of 57 8.2 Forex

(a) Users can view the instance market information by clicking “Forex”.

Figure 8.2.1 Forex (Real-time Streaming details)

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 46 of 57 9. Setting

9.1 Producing your own window layout

One of the unique features of MIE is to browse more than one window in one screen layout.

You can choose which category of data being included in your own layout. In doing so, you can

enlarge or reduce the size of windows to fit the screen. You can take following screen layouts

as examples to tailor-made your own layout.

Figure 9.1.1 Screen Layout 2

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Figure 9.1.2 Screen Layout 3

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 48 of 57 9.2 Window Setting Menu

Window Setting Menu assists you to arrange your windows in MIE.

Figure 9.2.1 Window Setting Menu

(a) You can minimize or restore all the windows opened in MIE by clicking on [ ] icon.

(b) You can also check windows opened from the list in Window Setting Menu.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 49 of 57 9.3 General Setting

9.3.1 Colour Scheme

Apart from tailor-made your own screen layout, you can choose the colour scheme of each

window. You can choose either dark or light colour to display by clicking on [ ] icon at the top right-hand corner of the window.

Figure 9.3.1.1 To select colour scheme

9.3.2 Font Size

You can also choose the displaying font size by clicking on [ ] icon.

Figure 9.3.2.1 To select font size

9.3.3 Choice of Window Display

In some categories, MIE provides you certain choice for window display. You may choose the

preferred one by clicking on [ ] icon at the top right-hand corner of the window.

Figure 9.3.3.1 To choose layout display

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 50 of 57 10. Setup

In Setup, you can select your preferred language or layout style. You can also save and load

the layout.

Figure 10.0.1 Setup Menu

10.1 Language Selection

Figure 10.1.1 Language Selection

(a) Clicking on the “English” Button will change to English version.

(b) Clicking on the“繁體”Button will change to Traditional Chinese version, but you must

use Chinese windows to display Chinese character.

(c) Clicking on the“簡體”Button will change to Simplified Chinese version, but you must use

Chinese windows to display Chinese character.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 51 of 57 10.2 Layout Selection

Figure 10.2.1 Layout selection

• To select your preferred layout style, you can click on “Look & Feel” to choose different

style of layout like “Window”, “Metal” or “CED/Motif”.

10.3 Save/Load Layout

10.3.1 Save as Default Layout

You can save the preferred layout of different combination of window as the default layout. You

will view the default layout when you open MIE every time.

Figure 10.3.1.1 Pop-up message when you save successfully

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 52 of 57 10.3.2 Save Layout

Apart from saving as default layout, you can also save the your own combination style into

different layout.

Figure 10.3.2.1 Pop-up window to save layout

10.3.3 Load Layout

You can load the layout you have saved before by clicking in “Load Layout”.

Figure 10.3.3.1 Pop-up window to load layout

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 53 of 57 11. FAQ

11.1 Check for Updates

(a) To know the version of your existing MIE, you can click on “About MIE” from “Help” menu.

Figure 11.1.1 Click to check the existing version of MIE

Figure 11.1.2 Check for existing version

(b) To check for upgrades, you can click on “Check for Updates” to update your MIE. After

checking, a pop-up window will appear to notify you the latest version of MIE.

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Figure 11.1.3 Check for updates

Figure 11.1.4 Pop-up window to notify you the latest version

(c) Compare your current version with the up-to-day version, if it is not the same, you should

do update to ensure that you have the latest version to enjoy the up-to-date function.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 55 of 57 11.2 Upgrades

To upgrade your MIE, you firstly need to close MIE. Then press “MIE Intelligence Upgrade” in

Program Menu.

Figure 11.2.1 Upgrade key in Program Menu

Figure 11.2.2 Start to download and install

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Figure 11.2.3 Finish upgrade

Then you can start your MIE with the latest version.

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AASTOCKS.com LIMITED Page 57 of 57 12. System Requirements

12.1 Hardware

MIE requires a computer with a 300MHz or better CPU running Window 95 or later. You will

need a minimum of 192MB RAM (64MB Free) and at least a 50MB free hard disk space.

12.2 Software

MIE also requires to run on Sun Java JRE 1.4.0 or higher.

12.3 Network

MIE will need an Internet access with modem 56 kbps or above, broadband cable or lease wire

line. Also, TCP/IP port 8000 must be ready for connection.

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