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.
----- 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
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.
============ Flash/Trend 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
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/showthread.php?threadid=214478 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=213881