Barchart.com Advanced Equities Service: User Guide

Barchart.com's Advanced Equities Subscription Service (AES) contains numerous features that are not available on the free website. This online User Guide groups AES features according to their location within the Barchart.com site.

For help on the different technical analytics used within the site, please refer to the Learning Center. To contact Barchart.com with a question, comment, data error or bug report please use the Feedback Form. To view all of the different pages within the Barchart.com site, please refer to the Sitemap. For answers to frequently asked questions please refer to the FAQs.

Signals Tab:

What are "Technical Opinions"?

Unique to Barchart.com, the Signals tab and all pages contained within are derived from the results and technical analysis of the Technical Opinion.

The Opinions takes up to 2 years worth of historical data and runs these prices through thirteen different technical indicators. After each calculation, the program assigns a buy, sell or hold value with the study, depending on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of the study. For example, if the price is above the moving average of the stock, then this is generally considered an upward trend or a buy.

The Signals section is updated once a day at 6 p.m. EST. The signals section considers all stocks that traded that day on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges, with a daily closing price between $2 and $900 and a daily volume of at least 10,000 shares. To be included within the signals pages, the underlying stock must have at least six months' worth of trading history.

Read more about how Technical Opinions are calculated.

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