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Address:	Johnsonville
	Wellington, New Zealand, 6037
Phone # for sales:	NO phone provided
Website:	www.sierrachart.com
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E-mail address:	support@sierrachart.com

CATEGORY: SOFTWARE

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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