includes receiving a first external media data defined by the user for association with the media indicator the first media data is provided in response to a user action associated with the at least one media indicator the at least one media indicator is sharable with a plurality of users application_number US 90377307 A description the following description is presented to enable any person of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention descriptions of specific materials techniques and applications are provided only as examples various modifications to the examples described herein will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art and the general principles defined herein may be applied to other examples and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention thus the present invention is not intended to be limited to the examples described and shown but is to be accorded the scope consistent with the appended claims by enriching dynamic charts with user comments and opinions through media type files additional insight is gained for a particular stock trends and anomalies that may not be otherwise be captured by pure technical analysis this may more accurately detect trade opportunities or limit risks for an existing trade position media annotations may have many uses for example high frequency of media annotations may mean that the news event has a significant impact on the stock market while a low frequency may mean that this news event may have an insignificant impact on the stock market alternatively the media annotations allow users to express positive or negative opinions to a community of users in general media annotations may.