Which trading platform does intermediate well with excellent charting?

Laissez Faire said:
Is Ninjatrader worth considering? Great charts and easy to use.

I found that it lacks some basic functionality that I desire, but I solved it by either buying 3rd party add-ons or creating them from scratch as a custom script/indicator.

As an example, I'm fairly sure you won't get % change charts on NT, but it should be trivial to solve with an indicator.

The obvious drawdown is that it ain't compatible with a lot of brokers for stocks. In fact, I think Interactive Brokers is the only one. Another drawdown is that they seem slow as hell to implement user requests and complains. In contrast, Sierra is known to fix and implement new stuff fairly quickly.

At a point, I was fairly frustrated by Ninjatrader and started looking into other platforms, but I realized that no retail platform is perfect and decided to just stay with what I know. I run it on a workstation and it's very, very stable.

The one platform I was considering was SierraCharts which seems absolutely fantastic, but, it is said that there's quite the learning curve to get fully up to speed. I decided my time was better spent improving my craft instead of learning new software.
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It is free for real-time charts from interactive brokers but you have to use an old version of IB TWS and cannot upgrade.
 
Laissez Faire said:
The one platform I was considering was SierraCharts which seems absolutely fantastic, but, it is said that there's quite the learning curve to get fully up to speed. I decided my time was better spent improving my craft instead of learning new software.
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ms33 said:
I need six of those on a page. Can Yahoo do that?
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I no longer use Yahoo charts, or rarely do, the yahoo chart I displayed is one I had saved from a year or so ago.
Suggest just experiment with it.

I use spreadsheets now.
 
tv is nice and easy but too expensive without porper trading functions, just use free version for a glance.
 
ms33 said:
No single platform appears to have everything: ease of use, great charting, scripting, fundamentals, brokerage, futures, overnight. I currently use Thinkorswim (automates & propagates charts) , Fidelity's Active Trader Pro (great multistock charts, nothing else), TradeStation (futures) and Interactive Brokers (futures, overnight) and TC2000 (fast prototyping, useless for multistock charts) to get everything done.

Particular bitches: Interactive Brokers and TC2000 can't do simple %change charts, IBKR is a dinosaur, TradeStation borderline unusable, TC2000 is useless for multistock charts. TC2000 doesn't have futures.

Is there easy to use software out there that does the basics and charting extremely well?
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Yes, I think so:
https://www.medvedtrader.com/www/frontend
 
ms33 said:
"Im not sure what you are looking for (% chg chart) but MedvedTrader might be worth a look."

If you have two stocks on a chart, the simplest way to compare them is using %change on the y-axis. Using price on the Y-axis doesn't capture the two stocks appreciation relative to one another and forces the user to do the calculation in their head.
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In Medved trader you can add a two stocks on the same chart. It is in the indicators section and you put the stock symbol in there and it shows up on the same chart as the main symbol.
 
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