Top Charting Web Sites
by Wayne A. Thorp, CFA
FreeStockCharts.com
The FreeStockCharts site (formerly BestFreeCharts) is a relative newcomer to the online charting arena, but has already made quite an impression on us. From Worden Brothers, the maker of the popular TC2007 charting software, the site offers charting, scanning, and portfolio tracking on a free and fee-based basis. The site is unique in that it offers free streaming “real-time” charts of stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), indexes, and forex (foreign exchange) without exchange fees. It does this by providing real-time data from the BATS (better alternative trading system) exchange.
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For charting purposes, FreeStockCharts.com offers line, bar, and candlestick charts. You can plot charts on an intraday basis as well as on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis. The site also boasts one of the larger indicator libraries among online services with over 60, all of which you can modify to your needs. You can also draw your own trendlines. Registered users can create chart layouts or templates and save them for future use. Once you save a layout, you can access your preconfigured charts from any computer.
There are also built-in watchlists covering U.S. and Canadian common stocks and indexes, Morningstar industries, and ETFs. For example, you can click on the Russell 1000 watchlist to see all of the stocks that make up that index. Users can also create and save their own watchlists.
Free users can create scans that will search the S&P MidCap 400 and SmallCap 600 constituent stocks based on over 80 technical and fundamental factors.
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Discussion
This information is exciting and I will enthusiastically check these sites for future use.
As a person who has recently began taking complete control of my own portfolio I find this very useful.
Thank you!
posted over 2 years ago by Robert from Texas
Site is difficult to manage--I can't get info on my topics. ag
posted over 2 years ago by Alice from New Jersey
I have been using FreeStockCharts.com for a few months now and am quite impressed. It does everything I need to analyse stocks.
posted over 2 years ago by Barry from
FreeStockCharts.com doesn't work on linux computers.
On several computers, I've installed the "moonlight" package (which is supposed to run websites designed for microsoft silverlight), but the page never loads. Hopefully they'll make their content available to linux users.
posted over 2 years ago by Mark from Washington
Both are great programs, but could vastly improve with pre and after market charting which are, at present, not offered.
posted 7 months ago by Jerry Shirley from Alabama
Excellent information for individual, retired, self directed investor, like me.
Thanks
posted about 1 month ago by Vaidy Bala from
I have been useing FreeStockCharts for about 18 months in conjunction with my Investors Business Daily subscription. It provides me with everything I need and I have found it indispensible to my analysis. It is doing so well that while IBD has it's own charting service, I am not sure I want to switch.
posted about 1 month ago by Steven Johnson from Minnesota
