The decision
R/T or D/C: one question decides it
Do your trading rules depend on what happens inside the session? If you enter and exit intraday, watch tick-by-tick prices, or trade off short timeframes, you need R/T. If you make your decisions after the close and place orders for tomorrow, as swing and position traders do, D/C (Daily Charts, the edition once called MetaStock EOD) does everything you need at roughly half the price. Paying for real-time data you analyse once a day is the most common money leak in this decision.
MetaStock D/C
End-of-day analysis for swing and position traders. Pair with DataLink end-of-day data (~US$27.95/month).
~US$59/mo · ~$499 one-time
Try D/C Free →
MetaStock R/T
Intraday charting, scanning and testing for traders who act during the session.
~US$100/mo · ~$1,080/yr · ~$1,395 one-time
Try R/T Free →All prices indicative in US dollars, confirmed at MetaStock's checkout. Both editions run the same analysis engine: 300+ indicators, Explorer, System Tester, Forecaster, the 58 expert advisors and the Power Console. The difference is the data cadence, not the toolbox.
