About News Ticker

A new Scrolling Headline Ticker has been built to provide scrolling news updates based on custom keyword or symbol filters.

The Ticker allows you to click through to a Story, control the headlines from a custom filter and set a custom scrolling speed.

Selecting the News Ticker

From the View menu

Positioning the News Ticker

From the right click menu

To move the News Ticker bar up, click the Move Up option. To move the News Ticker bar down, click on the Move Down option. The greyed out option indicates the current status of the ticker. The greyed out option indicates the current status of the ticker. If the News Ticker is at the bottom of the page and there are Tickers or a Snap Quote Bars directly above it and also at the top of the FutureSource window then it will take several applications of Move Up before the News Ticker will be at the top -first it will be directly above the ticker or snap quote that is near the bottom, then it will be below the ticker or snap quote that is at the top, then finally it will be above the top ticker or snap quote.

The ticker can be removed using Hide News Ticker. If the News Ticker is hidden it can be brought back using the View menu as shown above.

View Story

Double Clicking or Right Clicking on the Ticker allows the user to see the entire story:

 

Filter News Ticker

All News is the default (no filter)

Custom brings up the Custom News Filter

For more information on setting up a Custom News Filter go here.