What is the Advantage of Barchart.com
Barchart.com is a investing and trading research platform that provides real-time or delayed intraday stock and commodities charts and quotes.
This article is going to show the benefits and disadvantages of barchart based on its use in charting features, market access and scanners.
The Advantages of Barchart
The advantages of Barchart can be seen in its use with respect to charting, market access and scanners. Whether using it as a free or premier user, the tools on the website will allow most investors and swing traders to identify opportunities and execute profitable trading or investing strategies.
Barchat.com Charting Advantages
Barchart.com charts are done slightly different to most other competitor sights. Unlike trading View or TC2000 where the chart is the main feature and your fundamentals, subsidiary assets and scanner analysis tools are a distant second, Barchart aims to provide a more holistic approach to each asset.
Despite the companies name, the charting component is more of a main ingredient in a salad rather than the dominant feature of which everything else hangs off. That being said, their charting software still provides a lot of flexibility.
You still get a wide array of all your technical and fundamental indicators.
The charting time periods range from 1 minute to quarterly candles.
You also have access to live data feeds on prices irrespective of you being on a free or premier subscription. The data feed for live USA equities is taken from the CBOE BZX exchange. However, outside of USA equities all other data feed is delayed unless you pay a bit extra.
Like many sites, you do get a huge number of self created templates, as well as grid views that allow you to look at the same stock in multiple time frames for your fractal analysis.
Beyond the usual technical and fundamental analysis you can also create your own expressions. Creating your own mathematical expressions means you can create all sorts of variations for your charting analysis.
A nice to have feature is the ability to create multiple chart setups for the same symbol, and save them together as a group for a portfolio of charts.
This allows you to have instant access to your visual indicators across your chosen asset in numerous charting timeframes, fundamental and technical setups.
For full overview of bar chart charting capacity you can watch their introductory video below.
Barchart.com Market Access
Barcharts market access allows you see and analyse opportunities beyond the USA market.
Unlike Finviz and TC2000, you can see assets in other regions including Canada, Australia, Europe and the UK.
These assets include Futures, Stocks, Forex, Options (USA and Canada only) and Crypto markets.
Being able to analyze your different asset classes throughout the world gives you the opportunity to maximize the software and build on your strategies throughout the entire day.
With use of the wider range of opportunities, means you can apply the wide range of screeners and filters to identify opportunities among numerous different asset classes
Barchart.com Screener Advantages
Every trader or investor loves a good screener, especially screeners that can build in alerts. Barchart is no exception to this.
Barcharts screeners go into far more depth than most. Beyond the usual ratio's you will see in Guru Focus, you also have access to filtering on candlestick patters and other related assets in options.
Barcharts option screeners are one of the more comprehensive seen in the industry for price. It filters on all your different options strategies and allows you to use these metrics to create your own personalized strategy as a screener.
Applying these variations allows you to see underlying stock assets whose volatility metrics are at record lows, or whose credit spreads are paying a good risk to reward rate.
You can really get stuck into trying to figure out should you start with a strategy first and then find a candidate or find your candidate and then decide what option strategy will work. Your Option, Stock ETF screeners allows for any of these approaches.
On a personal note, Barhart option and stock screeners are one of the main reasons I keep coming back to use this product.
Is Barchart.com Real Time Data?
Aforementioned, Barchart does have real time data. For free, Barchart provides real time data specifically for USA equities using the CBOE BZX exchange.
If you are looking for more real time data feeds across all the other asset classes and regions, you can purchase this as a add on as part of their trader accounts.
For more information you can see HERE
What is the Disadvantages of Barchart.com
There are several main disadvantages to Barchart depending on your style of trading or investing.
Barchart does not have access to the Asian markets. If these markets are part of your portfolio or trading strategies, Barchart will not be helpful.
The other disadvantage is for use as a trading style interactive charting. It does not allow for easy use charting software that you would see in a TC2000 or Trading View. If you are a day trader, then you may want to look at Barcharts live data feeds that it incorporates with more extensive charting software. However, you may be able to use Barcharts screeners to help identify possible breaks and then use your other charting software for execution.
That being said, for its premier price of $16 per month, with its vast array of investing swing style charting options and immersive scanners and filters, Barchart is a more cost effective alternative to most other information grade competitors.
Please note I do not have any affiliation with barchart.com except my use as a premier user.
