EOD Charting Software

If you are a stock market day trader or swing trader, you are most likely looking at end of day (EOD) stock charts for investment ideas. There are software applications to help you cut down on the time to review them all.

Free Software

There is plenty of free software allowing you to chart stocks and look for investment ideas. These applications can be downloaded from any number of finance-related websites. Their tools offer metric evaluations you can use to narrow down the focus of your investment targets.

Individual's Paid Software

There are paid software programs individual traders can use for charting stocks at the end of the day. These have the same tools free software has, but they may also come with investment advice, a newsletter and commentary from the site creators.

Professional Software

There is professional software hedge funds, investment banks and other institutional investors use to chart stocks. In addition to what the free and individuals' paid software offer, professional software also offers real-time news as it breaks, giving professionals an added advantage to this software. Costs can run as high as $1,300 per month (as of 2010).

References

• Free Stock Charts: Charting Software