Charting & Technical Analysis · Reviewed 25 Oct 2026

MetaStock

Charting and market data software for self-directed traders.

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MetaStock at a glance

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

MetaStock is a charting and market data software suite for self-directed traders, offering real-time and end-of-day products S1. It solves the problem of accessing professional-grade analysis tools and reliable market data for trading decisions S1. Its practical value lies in providing hundreds of indicators, market scans, and trading systems, along with data solutions for various trading styles S1.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: MetaStock is a provider of charting software and market data for traders S1.
  • Core purpose: It provides professional-level charting and analysis tools with intraday data for real-time trading decisions S1.
  • Intended users: Self-directed traders, including day traders and swing/position traders S1.
  • Product scope: A suite of products including MetaStock R/T, MetaStock D/C, and XENITH for Daily Charts S1.
  • Positioning: Marketed as a trusted provider of award-winning charting software for over 30 years S26.
  • Claimed distinction: Claims to be one of the most widely used programs in the industry S48.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Day tradersUse real-time data and news in MetaStock Real Time powered by XENITH to transact throughout the trading day S1 S13.
Swing and position tradersUse MetaStock D/C and XENITH for Daily Charts for end-of-day analysis with continuous-delayed data S1.
Self-directed tradersAccess professional-level charting and analysis tools to make informed trading decisions S1.
Trading educatorsPartner with MetaStock to offer training and leverage its platform for educational purposes S48.
BrokersOffer MetaStock to clients as a trading platform solution, with free platform and data service for qualifying partners S48.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Real-time chartingMetaStock R/T provides professional-level charting and analysis tools with intraday data for real-time trading S1.
End-of-day chartingMetaStock D/C and XENITH for Daily Charts offer comprehensive charts with continuous-delayed market data for EOD, position, and swing traders S1.
Market scanning and systemsMetaStock includes hundreds of indicators, market scans, and time-tested trading systems S1.
News and analytics aggregationXENITH gathers news, data, analytics, commentary, and insights in one place S1.
Trading system developmentUsers can build robust trading systems with backtesting and automation tools S78.
Custom formula supportThe MetaStock Formula team can help create formulas for indicators, system tests, explorations, or the expert advisor S78.
Excel integrationXENITH for Microsoft Excel with Formula Builder enables custom spreadsheets S78.
Add-on ecosystemMetaStock offers third-party add-ons that enhance its trading system capabilities S1.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
XENITH for Microsoft ExcelIntegrationEnables custom spreadsheets with built-in Formula Builder S78.
MetaStock Developers KitSDKProvides free development kit for qualifying partners to build solutions S48.
Third-party add-onsExtension frameworkEnhances MetaStock's advanced trading system capabilities S1.
Refinitiv dataData integrationProvides news, fundamental data, and technical data to all clients S48.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
MetaStock D/C with Daily Charts dataNot published (one-time purchase) S13Daily Charts data via XENITH S13Delayed data S13
MetaStock D/C for non-subscribersNot published (one-time purchase plus $10 annual maintenance fee) S13Use your own data S13Not established
MetaStock and XENITH for Daily Charts Global packageNot published (monthly or annual subscription) S13Global end-of-day data S13Not established
MetaStock and XENITH for Daily Charts Global Subscription Package (Monthly)Not published (monthly) S13Not establishedNot established
MetaStock and XENITH for Daily Charts Global Subscription Package (Annual)Not published (annual) S13Not establishedNot established
XENITH for DC Global Subscription (Monthly)Not published (monthly) S13Not establishedNot established
XENITH for DC Global Subscription (Annual)Not published (annual) S13Not establishedNot established

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
finance.yahoo.com224.5metastock, meta chart
barchart.com215.5meta chart
marketchameleon.com112meta chart
en.wikipedia.org113metastock
markets.businessinsider.com113meta chart
trustpilot.com114metastock
commons.wikimedia.org114meta chart
linkedin.com115metastock
robinhood.com116metastock

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.0%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Striking-distance keywordVolume 1,600 · https://www.metastock.com/
Important pagehttps://blog.metastock.com/2015/04/wilders-rsi-vs-stochastic-indicator.html · 1 sampled keywords · best position 4
Competitor gap2 first-page appearances across metastock, meta chart

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • pricing: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
TrustpilotMetaStock Reviews / Read Customer Service Reviews of metastock.comGrounded web search4-star 22% 3-star 0% 2-star 11% 1-star 56% Carl Fredrik Olsson SE• 5 reviews Sep 20, 2025 ## As a long term customer and user of the… As a long term customer and user of the Metastock RT the new version 19 is a major disappointment. In previous versions running an exploration and flipping through thousands of stocks was fairly quick. In v19 it is so slow that it is unusable. Does not matter if you download the data or not, it takes too long to load the next security, with your indicators and exp
TrustpilotMetaStock Reviews 9Grounded web search# MetaStock Reviews 9 • 2.6 Software Company ... . Great tools and ease of use but not much good if it simply doesn't function. Spent a lot of time on line ... savvy is partly to blame but this software is glitchy and prone to simply not functioning
TrustpilotMetaStock Reviews 9Grounded web search# MetaStock Reviews 9 • 2.6 Software company ... time. Great tools and ease of use but not much good if it simply doesn't function. Spent a lot of time ... -admittedly my lack of tech savvy is partly to blame but this software is glitchy and prone to
TrustpilotMetaStock Reviews / Read Customer Service Reviews of metastock.comGrounded web search5-star 11% 4-star 22% 3-star 0% 2-star 11% 1-star 56% Carl Fredrik Olsson SE• 5 reviews Sep 20, 2025 ## As a long term customer and user of the… As a long term customer and user of the Metastock RT the new version 19 is a major disappointment. In previous versions running an exploration and flipping through thousands of stocks was fairly quick. In v19 it is so slow that it is unusable. Does not matter if you download the data or not, it takes too long to load the next security, with your indicat

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipNot published on the collected pages.—
Contact and supportIf you cannot find the answer to your question or would like more information, please contact us and a product specialist will help you:source
Legal and privacyWe invite you to try out any MetaStock product (including Add-Ons) for 30 days. If you are not convinced that it helps you make more accurate, educated trading decisions, just return it to us within the 30 days for a refsource
Security and complianceNot published on the collected pages.—
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered1994-11-01—
Domain expires2028-06-21—

Not found on the collected pages: company and ownership, security and compliance, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
MetaStock / Product Pricing GuideGuideProduct Pricing Guide (source)Not dated
Contact and supportSupportPublic contact and support channel. (source)Not dated
MetaStock / Knowledge Base, Downloads, Product Updates & HelpHelp centerKnowledge Base, Downloads, Product Updates & Help (source)Not dated
MetaStock / MetaStock / Market Analysis Charting & Data for Traders of All LevelsChangelogPublic product change history. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, status page.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)MetaStock is delivered as desktop software with local installation, as indicated by downloadable software updates and patches S50.S50
Platforms and appsNot published on the collected pages.—
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)A MetaStock Developers Kit is available for qualifying partners S48.S48
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsNot published on the collected pages.—
Release activityProduct updates and patches are available for download S50.S50
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered1994-11-01 — GoDaddy.com, LLC
Domain expires2028-06-21
TLS certificateDigiCert Inc, valid, expires 2027-01-16
Security headersCSP, X-Frame-Options
Headers not servedHSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerMetaStock
Mail handled bysmtp.google.com
Nameserversns59.domaincontrol.com, ns60.domaincontrol.com

Not measurable: wayback: ladder budget spent after 2 probe(s); rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 4 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 84/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 11
  • Notices: 4

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningTitle length should be reviewed81https://www.metastock.com/
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.metastock.com/
warningSlow HTML response6845https://www.metastock.com/
warningTitle length should be reviewed81https://www.metastock.com/
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.metastock.com/
warningMissing meta description—https://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy
warningMissing meta description—https://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.metastock.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.metastock.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.metastock.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.metastock.com/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200MetaStock \MetaStock \Market Analysis Charting & Data for Traders of All Levels1350
200MetaStock \MetaStock \Market Analysis Charting & Data for Traders of All Levels1350
200MetaStock.com12963190 mshttps://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy
200MetaStock.com12963153 mshttps://www.metastock.com/company/legal/privacy

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct62.3%
search23.8%
search organic23.4%
search paid0.4%
social3.8%
social organic3.8%
social paid0.0%
referrals5.2%
paid referrals1.4%
mail3.5%
gen ai0.0%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any competitors by name. Pricing details are largely not published on the public pages, with only billing methods and subscription terms described S74. Specific platform support (e.g., Windows, macOS) is not explicitly stated in the collected evidence. Security certifications and uptime status are not published on the collected pages.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 11 collected pages from metastock.com, including product, pricing, support, and partner pages. The evidence catalog contains 87 entries, with sources cited as S1 through S78. External proof search was enabled but only discovered the existence of external results; no external ratings or reviews were collected. Coverage is limited to public pages; pricing details are often not published and require direct inquiry.

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