All commodity charts are not created equal. You can choose end of day, daily, weekly or monthly charts. There are tick charts, bar charts, and candlesticks to name just a few. Your broker should at least provide you with a charting package when you sign up for your trading account.

The type of charts you choose will depend on your trading style. If you are a day trader or scalper, 10 minute delay will not do the job!

Likewise, if you are a long term trend trader, using the 5 minute chart is going to do nothing but cause confusion.

Regardless of which charts you use, the most important factor is accuracy of data. Ask other traders what they have found works best for them. Word of mouth is almost always the best resource for choosing futures charts.

Commodity Charts:

• Alaron Quotes & Charts
• Anne Burden's Futures Guide
  Nice clean, well-designed site, very easy to navigate. Charts, quotes and market specs are free.
• Astrikos
• Bohl & Associates
  A very popular cutomizeable charting site, and Bernie Bohl is very helpful too.
• BriteFutures
• CommodityTrader.Net
• Dataform
  Software to automatically distribute the price, volume and open-interest data to your computer hard disk and see high quality price charts of the contracts that interest you.
• Dynex Forex Charts
• Economic Time Series Charts
  All sorts of interesting charts ...government stuff. Useful!
• FYI Investor Free Commodity Futures Charts
  Great website altogether, these folks are a class act.
• GeckoCharts
  Absolutely wonderful charting software, and extremely under priced. Take a look at their free demo disk, it's a fully operational charting package, just no live data feed in the demo.
• Global Charts
• Golden Mean Gold Charts
• Gann Historical Chart Room
  Charts from the 60's on upwards
• Great Pacific Trading Co.
  Free charts from Scott & Toni. Nice folks.
• InfoTec
• FuturesCharting.com
• Lind-Waldock Custom Charts
  Free custom charts
• Main Street Brokerage Charts
  Not Free.This company is owned by Ken Roberts, I believe.
• Market Cycles
  Free service
• MetaStock Java Charts
  Stocks, Indices and mutual fund charts courtesy of Equis.com. Too many features to mention. REALLY nice charts!!
• Moore Research Center, Inc.
• Prophet Charts
• INO.com
• The Elliot Wave Chart Page
• The S.M.O.T. Charts
• Tom's Homemade Corn & Soybean Charts
• Topline Encyclopedia of Historical Charts
• Traders Charts
• United States Chart Company
  Belongs to Ken Roberts
• WorldLink Futures

Stock Charts:

• CBS Marketwatch Technical Charting
• CPCUG InvestSIG
  Stock index, mutual fund and futures charts
• Microsoft Money Central
• Stockcharts.com

Got any commodity charts you'd like to recommend? Email us!