Introduction to StockCharts.com

Introduction to StockCharts.com

Overview of StockCharts.com

At StockCharts.com, we aim to help individual investors and traders make smarter financial decisions by providing them with the best financial analysis and data visualization tools. We provide two powerful charting platforms—SharpCharts and StockChartsACP.

Our website is focused on technical analysis, a branch of investment analysis that uses a stock's price history to forecast its future behavior. In addition to our award-winning analysis tools, we provide market commentary from respected analysts like John Murphy, Larry Williams, and Martin Pring. We also have a vast collection of educational resources that can help you become a better and more informed investor.

Many of the features of our website can be used from any device with a web browser. You don't need additional plugins or software downloads to view our charts. Some of the more advanced features and functionality may require membership. Visit our subscription page to learn more about the benefits of becoming a subscriber.


We've rolled out an updated SharpCharts Workbench, the next evolution of our classic charting platform. Check out the new tools, features and updates and send us your feedback.


Getting Started

To start learning about all the StockCharts has to offer, please watch the video below, then review the overview information on the rest of this page.

If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to ask our friendly Customer Support staff.



Our Analysis Tools

StockCharts provides many technical analysis tools. You can create and customize charts, analyze markets, and find securities to invest in using either SharpCharts or StockChartsACP.

Charting Tools

Our flagship charting platform, SharpCharts, allows you to quickly create high-quality bar and candlestick charts for any of the thousands of ticker symbols in our system. The SharpCharts Workbench allows you to customize your charts any way you want and then save the results in a ChartList for later review. SharpCharts supports all popular technical indicators and overlays and many charting types—bars, candlesticks, line, Renko, Kagi, and so on.

We also offer our dynamic chart analysis and trading platform called StockChartsACP. (“ACP” stands for “Advanced Charting Platform.”) StockChartsACP (called “ACP” for short) is an interactive web application that lets you quickly create, customize and save interactive charts, run technical scans, and even trade directly from your charts. ACP also supports several Plug-ins from our industry partners, which you can install to add powerful analysis tools.

Learn More: SharpCharts | StockChartsACP

Chart Annotations

Adding annotations to SharpCharts charts is a snap. All you have to do is click the Annotate icon and add your trendlines, text, curves, shapes, and advanced technical line studies like Fibonacci Retracements to your charts. Once you have finished adding your annotations, you can save your chart in a ChartList for later review. All your saved annotations will be automatically updated as more data is added to the chart.

Note: StockChartsACP comes with its own chart annotation tools already built in.

Learn More: ChartNotes | ACP annotation tools

Stock Scanning Tools

All StockCharts members have access to our Scan Engine, which can be used to find stocks that currently meet a given set of technical criteria. Scans with your custom criteria can be designed and run from the Advanced Scan Workbench. Additionally, you can set up Alerts in the Technical Alert Workbench to notify you as soon as stocks begin to meet your criteria.

Learn More: Scans | Alerts

Other Charting Tools

We also offer tools for creating several types of specialty charts. These include Point & Figure charts, which use X's and O's to display price action; PerfCharts, which allow you to compare the performance of several different stocks on one chart; Seasonality Charts, which show the months that are best for a given stock; RRG Charts, which give an interactive, non-traditional look at a stock's relative strength; and colorful MarketCarpets, which show you winners and losers at a glance.

Learn More: Other Charting Tools

Market Analysis Reports

Want a quick overview of current market conditions? We provide several continuously updated Technical Market Reports, including our Market Summary report, which shows the performance of many popular market indexes and ETFs, our Sector Summary report which allows you to quickly find the strongest stocks in the strongest industries and our exclusive StockCharts Technical Rank (SCTR) report that ranks securities based on their overall technical strength.

Learn More: Market Analysis Reports | SCTR Rankings


Our analysis tools are documented in our Support Center. We also have a plethora of Instructional Videos that demonstrate the use of these tools. Our commentators frequently write about how they use our tools to create their commentary.

Market Commentary

In addition to charting services, StockCharts.com provides expert market commentary from some of the biggest names in the industry. We have a large collection of free technical market commentary in the Articles area of our site. In addition, members can read our paid market commentary from John Murphy, Larry Williams, and Martin Pring.

If video commentary is more your thing, be sure to check out StockCharts TV, our 24/7 streaming video channel features several live web shows packed with market commentary.

Learn More: Market Commentary | StockCharts TV

Educational Resources

ChartSchool is our ever-growing collection of articles on all aspects of technical analysis. You can find articles about every indicator, overlay, and chart type we support, with definitions, chart examples, interpretation guidelines, formulas, and even spreadsheet examples. It's a comprehensive free resource for anyone interested in technical analysis.

Our Instructional Videos can also help you get up to speed quickly with StockCharts.com. Each video is 5-10 minutes long and covers a specific area or tool on the website.

Finally, the Support Center (where you are now) contains in-depth documentation on all our features and ways for you to contact our Customer Support Team with questions or suggestions.

Learn More: Educational Resources | Customer Support


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