Best Free Trading Platforms

       Free trading platforms have become very popular in the recent years. The reason behind the popularity of these free trading platforms is the fact that most people are just learning about online trading platforms and most of them would rather try a free trading platform before diving into the paid platforms. Another reason is the fact that most people usually do not have the cash required to pay for an online platform hence choose to use the free ones until they are financially stable. This article will take a look at some of the best and most popular free trading platforms. Performing an analysis of these platforms is not a simple job since there are literary thousands of these platforms available online. The platforms listed here have been evaluated based on ease of use, cleanliness and professional scalability.

    Stockcharts.com is the first free trading platform. This platform has gained popularity due to the fact that it’s simple, clean and has impressive scalability. It is one of the most widely used stocks charting site, especially among the financial bloggers. StockTradingToGo also uses this platform as their primary charting. There is also the option of upgrading to a paid subscription.

    Yahoo Finance is almost similar to Google Finance with the difference being that it has extra bullet points for highlighting key dates. It is clear and very simple to use especially for regular investors.

     TradingView.com comes in at number three. It offers a flexible and a clean way of looking at stock charts. It is a community-driven platform and gives analysis in form of annotated charts.

    Google Finance offers clean charting answer to investors. It has tools which enable someone to view key events that happened on important days as well as having the ability to look back in time and give an analysis of stocks’ performance history.

FINVIZ.com comes in at the fifth position. It is easy to read and very clean. It offers users technical analysis overlays by default which is a feature that other platforms do not offer.