The most flexible screener on the board, wrapped in a free tier that stops you after twenty page views a day.
Barchart Premier tested: pricing, screeners, unusual options activity, exports, and a 77/100 Alpha Score breakdown. See if it beats free Barchart.
Read the full Barchart teardownPaid Barchart users describe the screener the same way repeatedly: the most variables, the most flexibility, and columns that mostly hold up against other sources. That is the product, and at $239.95 a year for Premier it is competitively priced against anything with comparable depth. Two things cut against it. Users on r/options report option prices that are sometimes wrong, occasionally looking as though calls and puts have been switched — and a screener you cannot fully trust is a screener you have to check. And the export, which is why a lot of people subscribe, does not always match what you see on screen, because some data providers restrict what leaves the site. Sort by a column, download it, find 'n/a' where the numbers were.
The 30-day free trial rolls into monthly billing at the full monthly rate, not the annual rate. Let Premier lapse out of the trial and you are paying $29.95 a month, a 50% premium over the $19.95 effective monthly price you get by actively choosing the $239.95 annual plan. The free tier's 20-page-views-per-day cap is also the most aggressive limit in this set — it throttles browsing itself, not just the tools. And Plus is a bad choice for options traders at any price: the entire options suite is Premier-only.
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The traders who get the most out of Barchart.
Where Barchart is the wrong spend.
A real complaint from the trading forums, and what this tool actually does about it.
“I use the free Barchart daily. It's easy to setup charts using fundamentals and other resources. One thing I have found is option prices are not always correct.”
Source: r/options
Treat Barchart as a discovery layer and your broker as the source of truth. The screener's job is to hand you a shortlist of twelve tickers out of four thousand, and it is very good at that. Pricing a specific contract is a different job, and that one belongs to your broker's chain, where the quote is the one you will actually fill against. Traders who use it that way rarely complain about the data. Traders who price trades off the screen do.
Sentiment pulled from one independent source, kept separate so you can weigh each one yourself.
r/thetagangReddit“Paid member there primarily for screening capability crossed with accuracy. I've found they have the most flexible screeners with the largest number of variables with the best accuracy. I've noticed other services can struggle with company financials and even basic market measures (eg, bothered me no end that ToS IVP was really IVR).”Read the original on Reddit →
r/optionsReddit“I know this is old but I just looked at the barchart option prices and it was so inaccurate in that it almost looks like they have the call and put prices switched. Just wondering if others are seeing the same. I'm comparing against the market bid/ask prices in trade>options in the schwab mobile app.”Read the original on Reddit →
r/thetagangReddit“I have been subscribed to Barchart for about 6 months. Recommendation depends on your needs and how you use it. I have 6 screeners that send out a mail to me mid day market and end of day market. I use them to keep track of corrections in top 100 stocks and ETFs and also earning dates.”Read the original on Reddit →
r/thetagangReddit“HOWEVER, I've been doing thetagang strategies for about a year and barchart did help me find some good puts to sell, but I ended up chasing high IV tickers that put me in a bad place. Their screener didn't put me in the red, but it certainly made it super easy to find high premium trades that offered a high return on capital.”Read the original on Reddit →
r/thetagangReddit“I pay for barchart and I use it daily. Very customized filters. Basically anything you want”Read the original on Reddit →
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20 page views a day, 1 watchlist, 1 portfolio, 1 saved screener showing only the first 20 results, 1 daily download. Ads reduced, not removed.
$9.99 / month, $99 / year ($8.25 a month), or $179 biennial ($7.46 a month)
Ad-free, unlimited page views, 10 each of watchlists, portfolios, screeners, views and chart templates, 10 daily downloads. No options suite.
$29.95 / month, $239.95 / year ($19.95 a month), or $419.95 biennial ($17.49 a month)
Everything unlimited, 250 daily downloads, the full options suite — advanced options screeners, unusual options activity, flow, time and sales, volatility tools — plus advanced real-time alerts with SMS.
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