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Once a connection is made, the dialog box will automatically close and you will
be connected. To connect automatically every time the program is opened,
you need to select Tools : Options... : Intraday Feed and then select Auto
connect to the feed. Connection status is shown in the bottom right-hand
corner of the screen.
A standard internet connection is required when connecting to our intraday
feed. You will need to establish your internet connection before connecting to
our intraday servers. You cannot connect to intraday data via direct dial.
N.B. ShareScope Plus and Pro users still need to update the daily data regularly
(by pressing F9 or selecting Update : Update historic prices & fundamental
data) to download fundamental information and historical share prices.
AOL Customers
Users who have AOL as their Internet Service Provider will need to make a
small change to the ShareScope connection settings.
Select Tools : Options : Intraday Feed. Towards the bottom of the dialog box,
make sure that the ‘Use Winsock 2 if available’ tick box is not selected. AOL is
not compatible with Winsock 2 and will prevent connection if this is active.
Intraday News
With ShareScope Pro, the AFX News service can be updated in real time along
with the prices. ShareScope Pro delivers the AFX UK ProFeed, a premium
news service. ShareScope Plus delivers news updates from the AFX UK Focus
service. This is the same news service used in ShareScope Gold but you receive
the stories as soon as they are released by AFX.
If you wish to be alerted to news stories for a specific share, please see Intraday
Alarms on page 31 for further details. Once you have set alerts on news you
can see all news alarms by right clicking over the news window and selecting
News for triggered alarms. To open a news window press Shift and \ (or
select Window : New window : News) .
However, if you do not wish to receive intraday news you can switch this option
off. To do this select Tools : Options… : Intraday Feed. From the dialog box
that appears, select the Disable intraday AFX news feed option. To enable
the news again, deselect the tick box.
All the features and functions that are available in the news window are detailed
in the ShareScope User Guide Section 11.