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Sierra Chart

Note: The following information has not been updated by the vendor since 09/18/12.

Address:Johnsonville
Wellington, New Zealand, 6037
Phone # for sales: NO phone provided
Website: www.sierrachart.com
Click link to request additional product information.
E-mail address: support@sierrachart.com

CATEGORY: SOFTWARE

General Information | System Requirements | Market Information | Data |
Data Formats | Charts | Screening and Alerts | Trading Systems |
Options Analysis | Support | Additional Information

General Information TOP

Product name: Sierra Chart
Initial Price: 15 to 45 USD per month
Brief product description: 

* Sierra Chart is a global leader providing a professional Trading, Real-time and Historical Charting, and Technical Analysis platform for the financial markets. Sierra Chart supports all types of markets: stocks, futures, indexes, currencies/forex and options.

* Sierra Chart is a complete and professional trading platform supporting manual trading, automated trading, simulated trading and powerful and highly customizable charting. We provide historical and forex market data and support many external data and trading services as well that provide futures, stock, index, and all types of market data from exchanges around the world. We are a leading charting and trading platform.

* Sierra Chart is popular among E-Mini traders.

* Sierra Chart now supports Advanced Trading. You have the ability to trade directly from the charts, the Trade window, and also use our exclusive ChartDOM (TM) which provides advanced and customizable order entry on the charts in a traditional price ladder format. Support for advanced targets and stops using highly reliable and failsafe server side OCO functionality (Advanced Trade Management).

* Sierra Chart has advanced chart-based order entry which allows you to enter and modify orders with precision directly on the charts.

* Sierra Chart has numerous chart types from simple to advanced, technical studies and indicators, and drawing tools.

* You can create your own custom studies, indicators and systems using the Sierra Chart Advanced Custom Study Interface and Language or the built-in Excel compatible Worksheets. Or use ones developed by other Sierra Chart users and developers.

* Sierra Chart supports Time and Sales and Depth of Market through a table format display, a graphical chart display, studies and programmatic access to this data.

* Sierra Chart is widely known for its stable, open, and highly customizable design. It is extremely fast with unbeatable speed in all areas. Proven, Trusted and Stable platform. Due to its open design, Sierra Chart can easily be used for nonfinancial charting applications (contact support).

* Sierra Chart supports numerous internal and external data and trading services with more coming. All the major data services and backend trading platforms are supported.

* Sierra Chart directly provides historical daily and intraday data for stocks, futures and indexes, tick by tick historical intraday futures data, and real-time and historical Forex data, without having to use an external data or trading service.

* Sierra Chart has a very advanced implementation of TPO charts. These charts are highly interactive.

* Sierra Chart fully supports automated trading systems, systems development and backtesting. Sierra Chart offers one of the most easy to use managed automated trading environments available which utilize Excel compatible spreadsheets. This is in addition to the automated trading functionality available with the Advanced Custom Study Interface and Language which is based on C++.

*Whether you are a short-term trader requiring real-time intraday charts and advanced trade functionality or you are a long-term investor requiring only simple charts with basic trade functionality, Sierra Chart will do what you need and is very affordable! Much less than the competition.

* Sierra Chart is being continuously improved and expanded. Come and join us and be a part of our growing community! We are here to support you with high-quality software and services.

System Requirements TOP

Operating system(s): 
  • Windows98
  • Windows95
  • WindowsNT
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows ME
  • Linux
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
Minimum RAM required: 2 GB
Minimum hard drive space: 100 mb
Minimum modem speed: Greater than 28800
Mouse required?: Yes
CD-ROM used?: No
CD-ROM required?: No
Demo disk available?: Yes

Market Information TOP

Markets followed: 
  • Stocks
  • Futures
  • Bonds
  • Industrial groups
  • Cash markets
  • Mutual funds
  • Indices
  • Options

Data TOP

Data type(s) utilized: 
  • Intraday data
  • End-of-day data
  • Fundamental data
  • Historical Data
Sources for data: 
  • Provided by the software vendor
  • Provided by an outside data source
Downloader: 
  • Downloader provided
  • Auto-selecting of data to be downloaded
  • Unattended downloading
Data manager: 
  • Editor for data
  • Split & distribution adjustments
  • Historical database included with purchase
  • Historical database available
  • Data exportable to other programs
  • Exporting of indicator values
  • Data printout
  • Refreshes and cleans data automatically
  • Custom symbols (e.g., spreads, crossrates)

Data Formats TOP

Formats read directly: 
  • Dial Data/Track Data
  • DTN
  • S&P ComStock
  • ASCII
  • Interactive Data
  • GAIN Capital
  • FXCM
Additional formats read directly: 

myTrack, Interactive Brokers, TransAct, Open E Cry, DTN IQFeed, Barchart.com, CTS T4, TD Ameritrade, Trading Technologies, Rithmic/Zen Fire. We also offer our own Historical Data Service and real-time Forex Data Service.
Formats read after conversion to program useable data: 
  • Dial Data/Track Data
  • DTN
  • S&P ComStock
  • ASCII
  • GAIN Capital
  • Interactive Data
  • FXCM
Additional formats read via conversion to program useable data: 

N/A

Charts TOP

Chart type(s) utilized: 
  • Bar Charts
  • Candlestick charts
  • Equivolume charts
  • Line charts
  • Market Profile
  • Overlay charts
  • Point & figure
  • Tic
  • Layered Charts
Charting features: 
  • Andrews pitchfork
  • Automatic line angles
  • Bollinger bands
  • Crosshair data readout
  • Customizable icons
  • Drag and drop
  • Dump to graphic formats (e.g., PCX)
  • Fibonacci lines, circles
  • Gann lines, angles, squares
  • Horizontal lines
  • Linear regression lines
  • Log scale
  • Market Profile
  • Moving average bands
  • Object orientation (formatting chart items)
  • Open interest
  • Pages or chart suites
  • Parallel lines
  • Print charts
  • Print oversized charts
  • Raff regression channels
  • Scaling: automatic
  • Scaling: manual
  • Scrolling
  • Space holidays
  • Templates
  • Tick volume
  • Trendlines: automatic
  • Trendlines: manual drawing
  • User-defined chart groups
  • Vertical wand
  • Volume
  • Windows: multiple
  • Windows: resizable
  • Write text on charts
Built-in indicators: 
  • Advance-decline ratio
  • Accumulation/distribution
  • Accumulation/distribution (Chaikin)
  • Advance-decline
  • Arms index (TRIN)
  • Average true range
  • Bollinger band difference
  • Call-put ratios
  • Chaikin oscillator
  • Commodity channel index
  • Comparative relative strength
  • Correlation analysis
  • Daily volume indicator
  • Demand index
  • Directional movement
  • Ease of movement
  • Herrick payoff index
  • MACD
  • Market facilitation index
  • McClellan oscillator
  • McClellan summation index
  • Median price
  • Money flow
  • Momentum
  • Moving averages: simple
  • Moving averages: exponential
  • Moving averages: other
  • Negative volume indicator
  • New highs, new lows
  • On-balance volume
  • Oscillators
  • Parabolic indicator
  • Percent retracement
  • Positive volume indicator
  • Price volume trend
  • Rate of change
  • Relative strength
  • Speed resistance (fan) lines
  • Spreads
  • Standard deviation
  • Stochastics
  • Studies on studies
  • STIX
  • Swing index
  • Trading bands
  • Trade volume index
  • TRIX
  • Ultimate oscillator
  • Vertical horizontal filter
  • Volatility (Chaikin)
  • Weighted spreads
  • Wilder's RSI
  • Williams' %R
  • Zigzag
  • Zoom/unzoom
  • Show indicator values
  • Modify built-in indicators
  • Indicator explanations provided
  • User-defined indicators

Screening and Alerts TOP

Ranking based on:  N/A
Screening based on: 
  • Indicator and studies
  • Technical systems
Alerts based on: 
  • Drawing Tools (e.g., trendlines)
  • Indicator and studies
  • Technical systems
Alerts displayed on charts?: Yes
Alerts displayed in table?: Yes
Screening by individual system per market?: Yes
Save tables?: Yes
Automated printing of tables?: No

Trading Systems TOP

Trading system features: 
  • Stock system testing
  • Futures system testing
  • System development and testing
  • Customize and edit formulas
  • System performance reports
  • System signals plotted on charts
  • Plot equity line
  • Testing of portfolio risk & return
  • Testing of money management strategies

Options Analysis TOP

Options analysis features:  N/A

Support TOP

Support features: 
  • Automated installation
  • Online help
  • Manual
  • Phone support
  • Bulletin board
  • Tutorial
Manual page length (if applicable): Over 200. Web-Based.

Additional Information TOP

Additional comments (please indicate additional indicators, special features and services here): 

Quality multithreaded software.

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