Bigcharts.com and Stockcharts.com: Introduction
Site Review: www.bigcharts.com www.stockcharts.com
Homework Assignment # 1
Due Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 – Week # 3
Youwei Chen
Introducing bigcharts.com and stockcharts.com
Both bigcharts.com and stockcharts.com provide tools to graph various types of technical charts for securities such as stocks and index fund.
Bigcharts.com is part of Marketwatch, besides charting, it provide market news and plethora of company research information, it marries technical analysis with fundamental analysis, and can be very useful for trader with fundamental analysis background. A big bonus for bigcharts is it provide minutes data for last 10 days. This is really useful for intraday technical analysis.
Stockcharts.com provides excellent charting, in addition, it host one of best free chart education courses. It provides more extensive indicator analysis, and more customizable chart compare to bigcharts.com. Stockcharts also have an active forum to discuss technical breakout. The sites gear toward technical analysis.
Bigcharts.com - charting with fundamental analysis and market data
From navigation “Quotes,News,Industries,Markets”, we can see market news and data is big part of bigcharts.com.
For example, the home page will display news such as “Japan’s Topix up 0.8%”, “U.S. Stocks jumps. One nice aspect of bigcharts is when you click on highlighted stocks mentioned in the news, it take you directly to the chart for the stock.
Examle: click on CAT will bring chart for CAT:
Chart: Historical data, Industry Analysis, Fundamental Analysis Bigcharts provide industries data, market news, top loser and gainers. This is very similar to Yahoo finance.
Charting software
Save Layout
In advanced chart, you can save the chart settings. This setting will be applied to Basic chart as well.
Basic charting – basic charting news attached at lower section of chart
Basic chart draw chart base on one parameter: time
Homework Assignment # 1
Due Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 – Week # 3
Youwei Chen
Introducing bigcharts.com and stockcharts.com
Both bigcharts.com and stockcharts.com provide tools to graph various types of technical charts for securities such as stocks and index fund.
Bigcharts.com is part of Marketwatch, besides charting, it provide market news and plethora of company research information, it marries technical analysis with fundamental analysis, and can be very useful for trader with fundamental analysis background. A big bonus for bigcharts is it provide minutes data for last 10 days. This is really useful for intraday technical analysis.
Stockcharts.com provides excellent charting, in addition, it host one of best free chart education courses. It provides more extensive indicator analysis, and more customizable chart compare to bigcharts.com. Stockcharts also have an active forum to discuss technical breakout. The sites gear toward technical analysis.
Bigcharts.com - charting with fundamental analysis and market data
From navigation “Quotes,News,Industries,Markets”, we can see market news and data is big part of bigcharts.com.
For example, the home page will display news such as “Japan’s Topix up 0.8%”, “U.S. Stocks jumps. One nice aspect of bigcharts is when you click on highlighted stocks mentioned in the news, it take you directly to the chart for the stock.
Examle: click on CAT will bring chart for CAT:
Chart: Historical data, Industry Analysis, Fundamental Analysis Bigcharts provide industries data, market news, top loser and gainers. This is very similar to Yahoo finance.
Charting software
Save Layout
In advanced chart, you can save the chart settings. This setting will be applied to Basic chart as well.
Basic charting – basic charting news attached at lower section of chart
Basic chart draw chart base on one parameter: time