I'm looking for a GOOD charting package... any ideas?

Been diddling with Sierra for a bit. Seems OK... I can live with its warts. Any input about Multicharts vs. Sierra which might make looking into MC worthwhile?

(I'm a K.I.S.S. kind of guy and trader. I care about charts, a few trading tools, and the DOM. All of these modern programs are sooooooooooooo customizable, they're a bit annoying.)
 
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Ran Sierra for a couple of weeks. Then, Multicharts.

While I like MC for a couple of minor things, Sierra wins out for me by a significant margin.... biggest being their "Help" support and it being much lighter on resources for my W7, 32-bit. Also, "window tiling". Sierra has perfect "vertical grid" for my secondary monitors setup, MC doesn't have that option.

FWIW....
 
I tried to transition from sierracharts to multicharts and couldn't stand the C# programming. The idea was to have a grid app that would monitor thousands of issues and multicharts could do that. Since I like c++ I'm thinking of openquant [which barely has charting really] and keep sierracharts for charting... Sierracharts doesn't have a grid app because they cater to futs traders i'm told... Maybe their spreadsheets would work as a grid app but I don't like spreadsheet stuff...
 
What is a "grid app"? Post a picture of what it is meant for.
Do you mean a table of tickers with data or calculation results?
 
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Scataphagos said:
Been diddling with Sierra for a bit. Seems OK... I can live with its warts. Any input about Multicharts vs. Sierra which might make looking into MC worthwhile?

(I'm a K.I.S.S. kind of guy and trader. I care about charts, a few trading tools, and the DOM. All of these modern programs are sooooooooooooo customizable, they're a bit annoying.)
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I'd give Medved Trader a try...has DOM, chart trading. IB as the feed, highly recommended. Absolutely superb support.
 
maxinger said:
On related topic ...
I am looking for charting package that can plot volume chart.

I am currently using esignal and I'm keen to explore if there are other available options.
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Medved Trader can plot volume charts, in addition to P&F, Renko, tick etc. etc.
 
M.ST. said:
What is a "grid app"? Post a picture of what it is meant for.
Do you mean a table of tickers with data or calculation results?
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Tradestation's RadarScreen, you can probably find a youtube video of it
 
a charting package I like is Multicharts .NET and if you have high end screens, or 4K, this looks rather nice. We provide this charting package for free. It can be connected via CQG or Rithmic.
 
Think or Swim (TD Ameritrade) did a platform upgrade over the weekend. They are now providing daily charts going back to the turn of the century (1902)!

TradeStation charts have SPX historical back to the 60's & provide volume, you can look at intra-day times like a 1 minute chart for 1965 to present. The down side & reason I no longer use their charts for swing trading is their method for splicing continuous commodity charts if you look back more than a few quarters produces charts that are wildly wrong - with bogus prices far from reality and a chart that will not resemble any other vendors chart.
 
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