Processor: 8086/8088, From 75 MHz or faster

Language, Menus: English

Languages, Keyboard Input: Western European (Latin alphabet)

Hard Disk Memory requirement: From 20 MB

Size: 2 MB

Description: Performs calculations of price, item turnover and value turnover at market balance with graphic display and hard disk storage of the results. The user defines a market scope by naming items and then writes arbitrary verbal statements about market events, schedules the onset of an effect of these events, and makes general or item-specific estimations in terms of consumers’ budgets, propensity to consume, inflation, interest rates, profit, VAT, propensity to sell, technical level, market volatility and/or market share. Transient effects on the market can also be defined.

Once the data have been entered, the program prints a graphic display with monthly projections spanning a year, stores selected numerical values on the hard disk and writes a verbally expressed forecast, all in only 5 clicks. Up to 9 items on three different markets can be handled in the program window using mouse clicks and the keyboard. The program orders the items starting from a) highest projected value turnover and b) lowest price. It also calculates monthly buy and sell recommendations for each item individually and calculates a trading index comprising all items and an employment forecast related to selected items. Other features include orders and work input required to deliver on time and a calendar. The program can be installed in triplicate on the same computer allowing 9 x 3 items on three different markets to be analyzed conveniently. If data folders are dragged out and into the program target folder the limits are set by the computer’s memory only.

Users: Software is intended for use by forecasters, small businesses, medium or large size enterprises including the manufacturing industry, entrepreneurs, retailers doing shelf stock forecasts, investors, and anyone else working with or interested in predicting market trends. Students of economics and business may find it useful for evaluating market balance problems.

The full version of this program is occasionally available at ebay.com. If interested, go to ebay and search in title for: Market Forecasting

INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEST PROGRAM: Click on the link "DOSTEST.EXE" above and choose the option "Save to Disk". Once download is complete, double-click on the program icon. Installing is not necessary, uninstall by dragging the icon to the bin.

WARRANTY: No registry editing or commands well known to be potentially harmful to a computer were used in the programming code. Commands or any routines involving the communications port have not been used at all. All code has been written exclusively for the purpose of promoting and maintaining the visible functionality of the program.

DISCLAIMER: The user only must decide whether or not the program can be run safely on the local system. The user only must decide whether or not the forecast given by the software is applicable in the local context. No guarantee can be given that the software is error-free.

COPYRIGHT: The software is based on copyright-registered scripts. It is available on diskette or CD. The downloadable DOSTEST.EXE may be evaluated and redistributed freely provided it is not altered.