I have used Advantage Plus software for many years. I just purchased the new upgrade to Advantage Gold, but as yet have not gotten into using it, though the basic features should be the same. I also had a very similar program called "Lotto Pro" (not to be confused with the newer programs of today with similar names) which I had purchased back in 1988 that produced a lot of the same type of charts as Advantage Plus.
I use the charts from the program each drawing by only using the amount of drawings that is twice the amount of numbers in the game. For example: the Hot Lotto game has 47 numbers, so I use the last 94 draws (47 x 2). 94 draws x 5 numbers drawn + 470 numbers divided by 47 numbers = 10. This would be the average number of times each ball could be drawn during this period. Of course some numbers are "hotter" than others, and some are cold, so this will not happen. By doing it this way, I feel like I am working with a more consistent event each drawing. I use this same method on all of the other charts. I just go to the "F3" button and subtract 97 from the last draw number to get the starting draw number to use. Your answer will be that number + 1.
I use chart 4, F4 to see the patterns that the numbers have been hitting in. I use chart 7 to get the total hits for each number. I use chart B and experiment with the F5 button to see what range of past draws seem to produce 4 to 5 numbers at least 50% of the time. To the right of the actual draw numbers, you see the games back position that each number came from in the draw history. I track these patterns on a separate chart I make myself so that I can use this history to guess which past position the next draw numbers might come from. To get the next chart for this pattern, you press the F4 key. A box comes up with 4 selections. Select #1 and a chart appears with the numbers from the last 6 draws that are still left in that position. You now hit the F4 key to select how many draw positions out you want to use. I think 30 is the max which is what I use. Then you hit the F5 key to see how many games back you want to use. Here you can go back as many draws as you like from 2 up to 999 if you have that many draws in your history. I use 30 on this one also. This will show you how many times a number was selected from each draw position in the chart and which draw positions are overdue for a number to come from or which positions seem to be "hot" for numbers to come from.
From this chart, I produce a running chart each draw, showing the draw positions that were used to get the numbers. Its easier for me to write the positions vertically on my 1/4 inch square graph paper and see the patterns listed from lowest at the top to highest at the bottom, than to look at them on chart B horizontally and out of order. Lately, another thing I do with my chart is to track which "vertical" column position the numbers come from, i.e., column 1, 2 , 3 , 4 or 5 from the F4 chart.
To do this, on my chart I use a Bic 4 color pen. For the first column which has the most numbers, I circle the number(s) in red, for the 2nd column I circle with green. For the 3rd column, I circle with blue. For column 4, I use a red square, and for column 5, I use a green square. I print all of my charts out to study for better vision. I have to look at the actual chart of course to circle the draw position numbers on my handmade chart that I make that only has the position numbers on it. If for example, the last draw had 4 of the numbers coming from the first column, very likely, the next draw would not have that many....maybe only 1 or 2, so I would be looking at the numbers in the other columns and selecting more from these.
One has to get into tracking the numbers on these charts in a regular system to develop your own feeling about what will happen. We are dealing with hundreds of thousands or millions of combinations, so it will not work all of the time. I used these ideas for 10 years, before I got lucky enough to select all 6 numbers in a DE Lotto 6/36 jackpot back in 1998. At that time, the plays were 2 for a $1. I used an 8 number system with 12 combinations and played 4 different groups for a total cost of $24. Besides the jackpot ticket, I had several 5 of 6 and several 4 of 6 tickets in the groups.
Bob also has a lot of good ideas for using the program going back in history to see what has happened. I experiment like this also.