Default Settings will clear all general and scan-specific settings (but not preferences) and return them to their default values.

Load Scan Settings (F11) will open the form below, which allows you to load a previously-saved TCScan+ settings file.  As you click or move through the files shown in the right-hand pane, summary details of the file will be shown in the lower-left pane.  This form also allows you to specify how you want the lists stored in the settings file to be loaded.  You can choose to add the lists in the file to your current list selection, ignore the lists in the file, or replace your current list selection with those in the file.  This setting, as well as the file name you select, will be saved as defaults for the next time you load settings again.  To delete a settings file click the Delete button on the top right of the file list pane.

Save Scan Settings (Shift F11) allows you to save the current TCScan+ settings in a file that you can load later. The TCScan+ settings files have extension '.tcs', and are stored by default in the directory in which you installed TCScan+, though you can store them anywhere you like. Double-clicking one of these files will launch TCScan+ and open the file in it.  It is useful to create a number of settings files to handle different scenarios, for example you could create one for oversold market conditions, and one for overbought. You could also have a bottom fishing, or rolling stock scenario, along with a long term buy and hold scenario. There are a number of example settings files included in your TCScan+ directory.  The settings file Last.tcs contains the settings that TCScan+ had when it was last closed, or until you unchecked the Save Settings preference. The settings in Last.tcs are always loaded when TCScan+ first starts up.

Start Scan (F9) allows you to start the scan. Once the scan has started, this menu item will change to Stop Scan, which will allow you to halt the scan. Clicking this menu item is equivalent to pressing the Scan button at the bottom of the TCScan+ form.

Scan Single Item (Ctrl F9) allows you to run the scan for a single item only, instead of the selected lists. Note that all the usual filters apply to this scan, so even though you run a scan for a specific item, it might not appear in the results table.  You can select the Ignore Filter option to ignore the filter criteria and make sure the item appears in the results table. 

Scan Results (Shift F9) allows you to run the scan for the group of items produced in your last complete scan or for a group of items stored in a results file.  For the latter option, you can scan either 'Names Only' (TXT) or 'Names and Values' (CSV) files.  You can also use another program to create a list of stocks that you can scan.  The file must have a separate name on each line, and must have a 'txt' extension. 

Print Scan Results (Ctrl P) will open the form shown below, which will allow you to print some or all of your scan results.  Clicking this menu item is equivalent to clicking the Print button at the bottom of the main TCScan+ form.  The items in the Data to Print section are equivalent to the options shown on the Preferences form.  The Items to Print section allows you to select which highlighted or un-highlighted results you want to print.  The Comment Lines textbox allows you to specify whether the results list should be printed with empty lines following each item to allow you space to write comments later. 

Save Scan Results (F12) will allow you to save the information in the results table to a file.  You can choose whether to save all your results or only highlighted ones.  You also have two file format options for saving:

1. Names only:  Saving only the result items names is useful for allowing you to import the results of your scan into TeleChart. You do this by saving your results in Names-Only format to the TeleChart directory.  Then use TeleChart's Import Symbols from List menu item under the WatchList menu to import the list into TeleChart.

2. Names and Results:  Saving the results and filter values is useful for reviewing all the data later. The file format is a comma separated text file, which is a standard format easily opened in Microsoft Excel.

Export Scan Results (Shift-F12) will allow you to export some or all of the items in your results list directly to TeleChart (see the form below.)  Other ways of accessing this command are to click the L key while an item in the results list is selected or to hold down the Shift key while clicking the save button at the bottom of the main form.  TeleChart do not have a direct mechanism to allow other programs to cause them to import items, so TCScan+ has had to resort to some advanced windows control.  This technique does sometime run into problems, and one of the ways you can correct it is by reducing the Batch Size.  This limits the number of items transferred to TeleChart at a time and reducing this number normally corrects problems.  If all else fails, however, you can always use the manual method described in the Getting Started Guide.