The MetaStock Learning Library · Updated August 2026

Download MetaStock. Then actually learn it.

The free 30-day trial gets MetaStock 20 on your desk. This site's job is the part nobody else covers: teaching you to drive it, from first chart to your own custom formulas.

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Three ways in, depending on where you are

Deciding whether to get it? Read what MetaStock actually does, the plain-answer FAQ, or the full honest review (including the weaknesses). Then let the free month settle it.
Just downloaded it? The MetaStock Guide takes you from install to confident daily use: charts, scans, and where everything lives. Check the system requirements and how market data works first.
Ready to go deeper? The Formula Language Course, nine free lessons, teaches you to write your own indicators, scans and system tests. It is the highest-leverage skill in the whole platform.

The free course

Learn "MetaSpeak": the formula language course

MetaStock's formula language drives its four most powerful tools: the Indicator Builder, the Explorer, the Expert Advisor and the System Tester. Learn it and the software stops being a chart viewer and becomes an instrument you can express your own trading ideas in. The course runs from absolute basics to working formulas you can paste in tonight, written by the author of several commercial MetaStock training programs and free here in full.

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The software

MetaStock 20, briefly

Windows desktop software for charting, scanning, backtesting and forecasting, in continuous development since the 1980s. Two editions: D/C (Daily Charts, end-of-day, from ~US$59/month) and R/T (Real Time, intraday, from ~US$100/month), both with a one-time licence option and both covered by the 30-day full-version trial. The Pro/R/T page covers the real-time tier, and the forex page covers currency traders.

MetaStock 20 charting with signal markers — Charting with signal markers

QuoteCenter watchlists and scanning in MetaStock 20 — QuoteCenter watchlists & scanning

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