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Barchart printed FED comments on economy blaming Trump for there problems. that is total babble and lies. that information is worthless. As is the people speaking it. The truth was they cut interest rates for political help in November for Boden/Harris camp-n.

I don't believe the %Chg data as shown on Barchart accounts for the impact of dividends/distributions. This would be most evident in the performance of bond funds since they make monthly distributions. I looked at the data for 3 Vanguard bond funds and found the following one year gains as reported on Barchart and two others websites. The two others websites report identical information (as of the close on 1/31/25) and they account for the re-investment of dividends. VFSUX VSCSX VBTLX Vanguard 5.23% 5.07% 2.12% Morningstar 5.23% 5.07% 2.12% Barchart 1.08% 4.27% -1.04% I believe other data reported on Barchart is dependent on this performance data, i.e., Wtd Alpha, Strength, Opinion, etc. So.... if the performance data is not reliable how can you depend on the other information provided for guidance? In the assets shown above the performance of VFSUX and VSCSX are quite similar (as reported by Vanguard and Morningstar and accounting for reinvestment of dividends). However, the Wtd Alpha, Strength and Opinion on Barchart is quite different for these two assets because the one year performance data as shown on Barchart is significantly different (1.08% vs. 4.27%). Therefore, VSCSX is rated 96% Buy, while VFSUX is rated Hold. In actuality, VFSUX performed a bit better than VSCSX over multiuple time frames (1m, 3m, 1year) per Morningstar. Until Barchart can explain/correct these discrepancies, I do not feel comfortable relying on the other data on the website for investment guidance.

Simply reading articles from Barchart has left me soured on ever considering their services. In the most recent, columnist Caleb Naysmith speaks of Musk's supposedly consistently building billion dollar companies, and lists Tesla as an example. Musk is better known for parasitical takeovers of succesful companies, such as Twitter and Tesla, amongst numerous others, and hemmorhaging them from within, causing irreparable and unnecessary damage, along with multitudinous alleged drug use assertions coming from sources often at the very top of relevant companies. As Euronews reported, "Sources familiar with the allegations over possible drug use said the claims referred to drugs including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy & ketamine." Starting around the time of said allegations, and since, Elon seems to have exhibited a serious fall from a humane mindset, not to mention lowered intelligence, and a disturbing embrasure of authoritarianism & paranoia, and yet the article, ignoring all this, rather painted Musk's latest moves as practically genius somehow, something even most layman would find exceedingly laughable at this late date. Anyone painting such currently volatile machinations as worthy of emulating is not someone I want giving me business or financial advice, or services.

I have an account with Barchart for more than a decade. The site has lots of useful free info and some handy features such as downloadable (Excell) quotes for your portfolios. The rules as to what's free and what's not free on this site are simple and clear. I never tried their payed service - did not feel I need it due to my investment style, thus, no review of the payed service.

I cancelled within my trial period and they still charged me the yearly subscription. You can’t cancel your subscription on their website, you have to send them an email and they don’t send you proof of your cancelation. Update - they reversed the charge after 2 weeks of complaints plus a bad review on their site but not happy that they charged me anyway without informing me that they charged my credit card. Still because they refunded me I upgraded their reviews from 1 star to 3 stars but they must disclose more information and a way for you to cancel the subscription on the website if they wish to be a more legit site.

Only useful for predicting the past. Very poor indicating future.

Barchart gives the user an incredible amount of data. Data that can be presented in many useful ways. As a long term investor, swing and day trader I always have it on the screen. New to the market users will benefit from the included educational material.

The bottom Line is mainstream anything is not going to give you powerful tools that make money. PERIOD. This Service is deliberately Sabotaged. All they have is pre defined main stream basic functions. The filter function is way to restrictive with only very basic built in functions. NO EMA output from watch lists. STUNNING. The service costs $200, it has the capability to be great, but its like having a car with no wheels. You are only allowed to have predefined functions such as 5 and 10 day moving averages. If you want a 6 day moving average from your watch list forget it. Beyond stupid. Complain and say REALLY !!! and you get the standard we will look into adding the feature. If i have to ask for the ability to do EMA and SMA moving averages with any number then we are lost. It so basic and yet its not in the watch list output options The graphs will export more detailed data. Yea guys if i spend many hrs exporting 100 graphs to post process data its useless in drilling down to the stocks meeting my criteria for a trade. The flexibility is needed in the filters and watch list outputs. NOT graphs. Retail is competing with super computers and all i am allowed is 9 and 14 day data. Bottom Line. This company has no intention of giving you the tools and flexibility you need. The advanced functions cost big dollars. Their Buy Sell recommendations are based on longer terms tech indicators so when its 100% buy YOU NEED TO SELL. Using this info by default will lose you money. This site is designed for green retail suckers. The free version is worthless, dumbed down and so restrictive, its not worth using. In summary 1980 tech.