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Posted by Flashboy on 06-06-12 04:00 PM:

Charting Programs - Any Suggestions

looking for suggestions for any good charting packages out there.

I'm pretty simple and don't need anything elaborate as long as can do the following:

candlestick
futures
simple movg. avg.
2,5, 10, 30, 60 minute charting

I don't use any technicals other than movg. avg.'s

I used to use Quote.com years ago but they stunk.. system was always down.

thanks for any info.

Posted by just21 on 06-06-12 04:02 PM:

Who is your broker?

Posted by Flashboy on 06-06-12 04:06 PM:

Global futures

Posted by Realistic on 06-06-12 04:16 PM:

----- Net based:

TradingView Free Bats Data: https://www.tradingview.com/

TradingView Solid program, Provides free Bats data, limited historic, but decent program... the futures data is free but limited to Daily, not intra-day

Additional Free option is http://www.freestockcharts.com/

Fee based Net charting provider, extremely fast http://www.tc2000.com/

I prefer TradingView when just monitoring away from primary resources...

----- Locally installed programs:

Multi charts Discretionary Trader - Free [requires data feed]: http://www.multicharts.com/trading-software-download/

Multi-charts DT issolid platform, requires data feed, only difference between Free and licensed versions is that the Free MC-DT version does not accommodate custom indicators, but has sufficient provided indicators...

May consider opening a small account with IB for data source [limited as it may be] or one of the supported brokers...

IQfeed is a solid reliable datafeed - Fee based, http://www.iqfeed.net/

I have used IQfeed in the past satisfactorily, due to my geographical location and ISP, I had latency issues but I am in Europe, shouldn't be a factor for US based traders, or those in regions not afflicted with a throttled ISP...

For Historic long term charting, I haven't been able to locate a source which provides more history than Tradestation... but I only use Tradestation for research, convenient, easy organization, easylanguage... but not for live trading... platform crashes too frequently to be trusted....

For live trading I only rely on Multicharts and broker feed for intra-day charting [IB is my primary broker] -- Rock solid combination

Posted by NinjaTrader_Ray on 06-06-12 04:56 PM:

Re: Charting Programs - Any Suggestions

Quote from Flashboy:

looking for suggestions for any good charting packages out there.

I'm pretty simple and don't need anything elaborate as long as can do the following:

candlestick
futures
simple movg. avg.
2,5, 10, 30, 60 minute charting

I don't use any technicals other than movg. avg.'s

I used to use Quote.com years ago but they stunk.. system was always down.

thanks for any info.

NinjaTrader is and always has been free if you do not want to use it for live trading.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/download-free.php

If you want to use it to trade at Global Futures, you can use it through them connected to CQG.

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Posted by murray t turtle on 06-06-12 05:23 PM:

Re: Charting Programs - Any Suggestions

Quote from Flashboy:

looking for suggestions for any good charting packages out there.

I'm pretty simple and don't need anything elaborate as long as can do the following:

candlestick
futures
simple movg. avg.
2,5, 10, 30, 60 minute charting

I don't use any technicals other than movg. avg.'s

I used to use Quote.com years ago but they stunk.. system was always down.

thanks for any info.

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Whichever one or 2 chart programs you choose.Focus on [1]somehing so well, when the errors come [& they will with any];
that you catch most price & volume & 50 period moving average errors............................ Paper printed charts/plenty of data written helps-yes its more work

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Posted by Kirkx on 06-06-12 08:12 PM:

Here are two threads from the last year where you will find more details about MultiCharts, Ninja Trader, SierraChart, DTN IQfeed, IB and some more:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...threadid=214478

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...threadid=213881

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