Free Stock Market Charting Sites

Online Stock Trading - Top 5 Charting Sites

Top 5 free charting sites

For anybody interested in online stock trading, or forex trading, daytrading or all other sorts of stock market investing, learning how to interpret charts is an absolute necessity. Why? Because everybody else looks at the chart and acts upon them. The charts therefore become self-fulfilling prohecies. There are plenty of free stock charting services on the Internet. We have listed 5 of them below, in no particular order, all of them are very good it is generally just a matter of personal preference.

Bigcharts.comAn interesting site with basic, advanced and interactive charts - all free and like so much else on the Internet paid for by advertising which is fine as it means we have access to a lot of useful stock market charting, realtime quotes, online trading tips  etc... would otherwise be inaccessible.

Google FinanceGoogle Finance is also very easy to use and includes the possibility of seeing key events that occurred on major days for a given stock and analysis of a stock’s historical performance, along with a complete news service.

StockCharts.com
Stockcharts.com is extremely easy to use. It is also probably the most widely used free stock charting site for non-professional online stock traders. The site offers a wide range of free tools and their is the possibility of upgrading to the paid charting service for further charting and analysis options for between $15 and $35 a month.

Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance is similar in many ways to Google's charting service without the key dates. It is easy to use but rather basic.

Wikinvest.com
Wikinvest.com offers an innovative way of looking at stock charts providing notes of key earnings reports or news that caused the stock to react. There are lots of things to click on and the site is very easy to use.

For information on how to download a desktop stock ticker see Website and Desktop Stock Tickers
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