How much are financial charting services and what ones are available?
Commercial services aren’t cheap. Daily Graphs (weekly charts with daily prices) is $465 for the NYSE edition, $432 for the AMEX/OTC edition. Somewhat cheaper for biweekly or monthly. Mansfield charts are weekly with weekly prices. Mansfield shows about 2.5 years of action, Daily Graphs shows 1 year or 6 months for the less active stocks. Of course there are many charts on the web. See the article elsewhere in the technical analysis section of this FAQ about free charts. S&P Trendline Chart Guide is about $145 per year. It provides over 4,000 charts. These charts show one year of weekly price/volume data and do not provide nearly the detail that Daily Graphs do. You get what you pay for. There are other charting services available. These are merely representative examples. • Can I get charts with a PC program? Yes. There are many programs available for various prices. Daily quotes run about $35 or so a month from Dial Data, for example. Or you can manually enter the data from the newsp
