3 Best Free Stock Chart Websites for 2024 (2024)

There’s simply no way around it: It’s hard to do great analysis with lousy charts. Whether you are a seasoned stock trader, a casual investor, or someone who wouldn’t know a cup and saucer pattern if it was thrown at your head and shoulders, here’s our list of the best charting websites for different needs.

We focused on design, ease of use, tools and customizability. In short, the best chart analysis website is the one that provides you exactly the information you want in an attractive way and with a minimum of fuss.

Every stock charting service reviewed here offers premium subscriptions in addition to free options. If you’re not satisfied with the choices here, many brokers provide comprehensive charting with no minimum deposit or monthly fee.

TradingView offers the ultimate clean and flexible experience for looking at stock charts. It’s no wonder many brokers license TradingView charts and widgets for their own sites.

Charts are exquisitely detailed and the service is less expensive than rival StockCharts.com (more on that below) if you feel you need a premium package. There are user delights throughout the site — for example, how the ticker box remembers the symbols you’ve already entered. It’s easier than creating a watch list.

The site hosts an active community passionately sharing ideas and advice on tons of chat channels. Sophisticated traders will appreciate the wide variety of techniques discussed in chats, while novices will be exposed to many traders’ opinions and forecasts. One negative: No one needs ro read the foul language seen on the chats. TradingView moderators need to step it up.

There’s also a killer mobile app. It has the same smooth charts as the website and it’s easy to mark them up, which is quite a feat on a phone. You can find a quick

As with StockCharts, you can use TradingView as your trading platform if you link it to your brokerage account. Some of the brokers that can link with TradingView include TradeStation, Interactive Brokers, Tradier, and Ally Invest. Before opening an account, check out our detailed reviews and comparisons (especially as regards pricing) on our sister site, StockBrokers.com.

• Pros: Most flexible stock charts, excellent community features including chat rooms, easy sharing, and over 100 charting tools and indicators included.
• Cons: Pop-up ads.

StockCharts.com is one of the granddaddies of internet charting, but it can still flex on some of the younger folk. SC continues to offer its long-established SharpCharts suite, but its newer Advanced Charting Platform, or ACP, is where you’ll find best in class ease of customization. Regardless of whether you prefer ACP or SharpCharts, too many features are locked behind a paywall.

Even with a restrictive paywall, there’s still plenty of value in hitting the site. Browsing through the market commentary and education sections feels like strolling on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for technical analysts. Scouting around the site yielded articles and videos from famed technicians Tom McClellan, Larry Williams, Greg Morris and David Keller, among others. Also available — but behind the paywall — are posts from the legendary Martin Pring and John Murphy.

• ACP is powerful, intuitive and attractive. Articles and video content comes from the Who’s Who of technical analysis. Premium members can open and link a Tradier Brokerage account to execute trades directly through StockCharts (see a full review of Tradier on our sister site, StockBrokers.com).
• Cons: Real-time data, along with many other features, requires a subscription.

Yahoo Finance offers clean HTML5 charts that are clear, easy to use, and ideal for everyday investors. Yahoo Finance is also an excellent website for stock quotes, research, and news (other than the annoying ads).

As we were testing out these sites, Yahoo was beta testing a rich charting experience. Don’t settle for the first chart that pops up on the quote screen. Click on the “full chart” link to get the whole shebang experience. Do you want a Guppy Multiple Moving Average on your charts? You got it. There’s also automated pattern recognition, a feature this lazy chartist loves, especially when it’s free. Unfortunately, advanced charting features like key event overlays require a subscription to Yahoo Finance Plus’ Essential tier for $35 per month.

• Pros: Comprehensive choice of indicators. Great tools and clean, full-screen stock charts that are easy to read and customize.
• Cons: Ads; premium pricing is listed monthly but only billed annually; the best features are locked away behind a paywall.