Which free or low cost charting software?

Quote from eMiniFreak:

Some of us don't mind $50/month for piece of mind... yeah, you can trade with IB data, but I'll pay more for reliability.
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Okay you're using Sierra Chart with what data feed?
 
Quote from BSAM:

Okay you're using Sierra Chart with what data feed?
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I use Barchart.com... they're a pretty solid stream in my experience. I've had one problem with them (they said their network time server HW went down), and they refunded a month's dues for the trouble.

I was an IT network guy in the dot-com years... Financial shops will raise hell if they loose 50ms of data... much less the 2 to 5 second gaps when IB pulls their nocturnal tricks. My suspicion is that they're doing systems maintenance, but there are ways to do that without daily gapping data.

I haven't had problems with IB fills.
 
I think the only feeds I would use is Rithmic and/or IQ Feed.
The charting with Rithmic and NinjaTrader has been great!

I am testing IQ on multicharts

I dislike the big brokerages, no help once you need it. You are a NOTHING to them.
All they have to do is run a few more ads and find a few more shmucks.
Stay away from them...only my opinion.
 
i use TradeStation. the monthly fee is $99.95 but if you trade over the minimum volume criteria (10 round-turn futures contracts, or 5000 shares) per month, the fee is waived.
 
Quote from eMiniFreak:

FWIW, I think IB feeds are terrible... you get random feed loss day or night (more often at night).

SierraChart is $26/month and is worth every penny... they will graph directly from IB feeds, or you can use an external provider (my preference).

http://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/Packages.php
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Agreed, I get data from Barchart.com through SC and it's cheap and reliable... I get some bad volume data at the open on some stocks occasionally but otherwise, very nice to work with.
 
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