Review - The Top Ten Best Free Stock Charting Tools on the Web
Kurt Leigh
the very best tools to use. Those tool that offer the most in
flexibility, usability, functionality and most of all, enable you to
make a killing in the marketplace.
Through detailed research of the most popular Free Stock Charting
Tools on the web we have compiled the definitive review of FREE
Stock charting tools. We selected the biggest hitters of the Stock
Charting Community and pitted them head to head to make your life
easier and save you the work.
We did not review every feature, we only compared the features that we
feel the winning investor really needs. However the review is indeed
very detailed and specific.
We would claim this is the "TOP 10" Online Stock Charts around today,
however there were only 9 that met our minimum criteria and were
worth reviewing.
So here we go with the TOP 9 Stock Charting Providers on the web.
Comparison Factors, what the WISE investor needs!
So now you know the measures here are the results.
Caveats for the review:
Other Charting tools may exist, but they were not easily
locatable from Google Search.
If a function exists within a tool but was not discovered by the
reviewer that is not the fault of 3WISE, please make your functions
more easily accessible.
The criteria used, are those that are in the view of the author the
most important factors according to our successful trading strategy.
the author has no affiliation with any of the providers
THE WINNER FreeStockCharts
FreeStockcharts.com
The best stock charting tool in the review. Created by
the Worden Brothers Incorporated, this tools takes the internet
users to the next generation of functionality, usability and
knowledge. There is no competition.
Free Real-time Streaming
A huge selection of indicators
Ability to draw trendlines
Real-time News
Completely intuitive design
No Download Required (runs on Microsoft Silverlight) requires only a
generic silverlight install.
Personal Watchlists and portolio tracking completely integrated.
So you have seen the subjective review based on the points system
available at the authors Website and the checklist. So here is a brief
qualitative summary of the contenders, and their relative merits.
Big Charts is a contender, and receives 2nd Place. has it all, all the
important indicators, candlesticks, OHLC, and every indicator on the
checklist. One of the defining factors, which in fact sets it apart
from the others is the ability to plot Trend lines. Well done
Bigcharts. Out of our test it was the ONLY ONE with this ability,
unbelievable. Wake up and smell the coffee everyone else.
Bigcharts I believe is owned by CBS Marketwatch, but if you go
to the Marketwatch website you do not get all of the functionality,
and they want you to log in. I would suggest to Marketwatch they
integrate the full BIGCHARTS package into their standard offering and
provide a differentiating customer experience. Bigcharts has not had a
style upgrade in years, and seems to be the forgotten child.
Google Finance While Google finance suffers criminally in the weakness
of its charting, scoring 7 out of 28 points, and the worst of all
contestants, it is not all bad news.
Google is an excellent place to go for a single page of latest news,
blog alerts, and the P&L & Balance Sheet of any stock, and if
you only need a rapid view of the general stock this is still a good
stop of point for a general look. The news reports can be overlaid on
top of the stock price which is unique and valuable to the investor
interested in how news plays out in the stock price.
Yahoo Finance Yahoo like Google offers no trend lines, but does offer
9 sub windows with a healthy array of indicators to plot in those
windows. Coming joint second in our review, Yahoo it seems can do at
least one thing better than Google.
MSN MoneyCentral While the stock screener from MSN Money is in the
opinion of 3WISE the best free screener available, the charting
software comes in only in 6th spot. Lack of trend lines, Moving
averages, OBV and index overlay mark it down heavily. However with
Membership you can get real-time stock quotes.
CNN money: CNN money fares well in joint 3rd place with all indicators
available, but suffers from only 1 sub windows and no ability to draw
trend lines. Also the chart is only static, and non interactive format
becomes highly annoying after a while, having to continually refresh
the page to get new indicators plotted will make the experiences
investor growl.
AOL Finance: AOL finance, "nice try but no cigar", more effort
required to produce a good product. Read the results table, 7th place,
no need to discuss further.
Reuters: With its powerful news reporting and RED Green Candlestick
plotting Reuters does have a lot to offer, coming in Joint third
with Yahoo. Missing stochastics, money flow and rolling EPS combined
with its lack of trend lines, takes it out of the reckoning for
leadership in this test.
Stockcharts.com: The self proclaimed "simply the webs best financial
charts" unfortunately comes in joint 3rd in our survey. Worth
commending are the sharp charts, which are visually very impressive,
and its array of exotic indicators may excite the "think they know it
all investor" for the wise investor this is no one stop shop.
Missing trend lines, rolling EPS, and a weak news service do not do it
justice. More effort from Stockcharts.com could make it the best free
service on the web. They do offer a Membership service starting at
14.95, and scaling upwards, but for this money you could buy a service
like "Telechart 2007" which is frankly the best pay for Charting and
screening software around for those on a budget, at $29.99 per month.
Liberated Stock Trader, save yourself time and effort
use Freestockcharts for Charting, and Google to collect your news
and go and nail down some profit.
If you would like your site to be included in this review please
post to the authors website.
Stock Market Index Secret Trading Method: http://www.stgetview.tk/