Patent ID: 8126797

Claim:
A method of using a data processing system to perform technical analysis on issues and preparing a report of the analysis that lists two integers for a subset of the issues for simplified user decision making, the method comprising: obtaining pricing information for a plurality of issues, wherein the pricing information indicates for each of a plurality of issues at least a series of trading day closing prices up to and including a trading day on which the report is being prepared; calculating, using a computer, a preselected plurality of technical analysis indicators for each of the plurality of issues based on the pricing information; selecting a first subset of issues from the plurality of issues, wherein each of the preselected plurality of technical analysis indicators for each of the first subset of issues indicates that a price of the issue is likely to increase in the near future; preparing a first report for a user indicating the identity of each of the first subset of issues and, for each of the issues in the first subset of issues, providing a first integer indicating the number of the preselected plurality of technical analysis indicators that indicate a price of the issue is likely to increase in the near future, and providing a second integer indicating the number of the preselected plurality of technical analysis indicators that indicate a price of the issue is likely to increase in the near future and that on a trading day immediately prior to the trading day for which the first report is compiled did not indicate that the price of the issue is likely to increase in the near future.