Wonder Which Charting Software Is The Most Popular?
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I recently came across the following blog post that ranked (based on an internal survey) the most popular charting software was. Note that the sample size is unknown (although it’s stated that it is in the 100’s) but interesting nonetheless. Nice to see MetaStock in the top 10!
The Most Popular Charting Software is …
Posted by: Barry Burns
Recently I took a survey of my students asking which charting software they use.
This is only a small sample, and therefore not necessarily representative of which software is the most popular in the world, or even the US. It only reflects the responses I received from my students who responded to the survey.
I received hundreds of responses and thought you may be interested in the results. So here they are, rounded to the nearest whole number (you’ll notice that they total more than 100%, and that is because many people use more than one software for charting):
- Ninja Trader: 42 %
- Tradestation: 30 %
- Meta Trader: 27 %
- Interactive Brokers: 21 %
- eSignal: 18 %
- MetaStock: 16 %
- Think or Swim: 14 %
- GFT: 13 %
- Ensign: 12 %
- Telechart: 12 %
- FXCM: 12 %
- TD Ameritrade: 8 %
- Fidelity: 6 %
- MultiCharts: 6 %
- E Trade: 4 %
- Schwab: 4 %
- NeoTicker: 2 %
- QCharts: 2 %
- Other: <2 %
What charting software do you use?
Popularity: 56% [?]
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Thanks for writing this. 
Great article!
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Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran 
Comment by paul on 15 November 2008:
USE BROKERS CHARTS AS THEY ONLY PAY OUt on them, but tried Barrys strategies and turned my trading around