BigCharts

Information Systems

April 4, 1999

By Michael Borgelt

 

 

 

Investing on the Internet can be very frustrating and difficult with all of the financial information floating around. Keeping track of your stocks and bonds prices at times is strenuous because of the pressure companies put on the investor to trade through their brokerage. It is now made easy through a company based right here in the Twin Cities. BigCharts.com offers quotes, interactive charts, reports and indicators for over 50,000 stocks, mutual funds and market indexes. It is considered the world’s most comprehensive and easy-to-use online Internet source and resource for finding the best stocks for any type of investor. BigCharts is a free service, which is not often the case with other investment firms and web sites. The reason that it is free is because it is entirely supported by the sponsors on their web site. BigCharts assures that their investment research information is reliable and accurate. Other financial companies and media services have recognize BigCharts unique ability to provide the best investment services on the Internet, and placed BigCharts services at the top of there investment search.

Companies using BigCharts

BigCharts offers many features along with the ones I have previously mentioned.

BigCharts Features

Financial Market Coverage:

Using BigCharts you can find your stock by using many different searching methods. This is very useful for people who are not familiar with stock symbols. They can use BigCharts broad search options that will help them locate their stock.

Search Engine Technology:

Search Entire Database by Symbol, Keywords

    1. Symbol Match if Entry is 5 Characters or Less
    2. Substring Search on Issuer and/or Company Name

I believe BigCharts charting ability is one of the finest in the investment industry. As an investor, you can interact with the charts of a company by comparing it to other companies, the industry as a whole or compare it to different moving averages. These are only a few of the features that can be displayed with the interactive chart area. BigCharts also offer the option to keep track of your favorite stocks. As you log onto the BigCharts web site you will be able to view your favorite stocks with just a click of the button. BigCharts keep track of your favorite stocks and the style settings of your charts with the use of cookies that are interacting with your PC and BigCharts web server.

Charting

QuickCharting Features:
    1. Last Price
    2. Change in Price
    3. Current Volume
    4. P/E Ratio
    5. Yield
    6. 52-Week Range

"Interactive" Charting Area:

    1. Up to Ten Comparisons on a Single Chart with Other Stocks, Mutual Funds and Indexes
    2. Ability to Save Major Index Comparisons in Default Settings
    1. User Adjustable Simple Moving Averages, Exponential Moving Averages and Multiple Moving Averages
    2. 25 of the Most Popular Technical Indicator Studies including: Stochastics, RSI, Bollinger Bands, MACD, Price Channels, Money Flow, On Balance Volume, Volume by Price Charts and many more
    1. Open, High, Low, Close (OHLC)
    2. High, Low, Close (HLC)
    3. Close
    4. Candlestick Charts
    5. Mountain
    6. Dots
    7. Logarithmic
    8. Hide Price
    9. Bar Chart

"My Favorite Charts" Settings:

    1. Security Symbol
    2. Time Frame
    3. Comparison Studies
    4. Technical Indicator Studies
    5. Chart Styles

As you open BigCharts web site you see the "Big Reports." Here you can interact with stocks containing the highest volume of trade or stocks hitting new 52-week highs. This is a great page for investors that love to buy at the lows and sell at the highs. These options, which are updated daily, are fantastic because they bring together all the high and low stocks in every category possible so that you don’t have to go out looking for them. This page also gives you a market overview along with index reports and corporate earnings releases.

The Big Reports

The BigMovers:

    1. "Stocks with the largest % gain in price"
    2. "Stocks with the largest % loss in price"
    3. "Stocks with the largest % gain in volume"
    4. "Stocks with the largest % loss in volume"
    5. "Stocks hitting new 52-week price highs"
    6. "Stocks hitting new 52-week price lows"
    7. "Most active stocks"
    8. "Largest money movers"

The BigPics:

    1. "Stock charts ranked by % change in price"
    2. "Stock charts ranked by % change in volume"
    3. "Stock charts ranked by largest money movers"

The BigMarkets:

    1. "Broad market overviews"
    2. "Dow Jones index reports"
    3. "Most recent corporate earnings releases"
    4. "Stocks with the largest short interest"

BigCharts.com now makes investing on the Internet easier with all of the features it offers. From bringing together all the top winners and losers in every category possible, to being able to keep your own little portfolio. BigCharts makes you feel like an investor with the confidence to control your own fate.