What publicly available software do professional stock traders use for stock analysis?

External question — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Olivier Lalonde Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/5990 License: CC BY-SA 2.5 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. What publicly available software do professional stock traders use for stock analysis? I assume they use something more advanced than Google Finance... right?

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Vitalik Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/5991 License: CC BY-SA 2.5 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Bloomberg Professional seems to be very popular. It provides any kind of data you can imagine. Analysis is a subjective interpretation of the data.

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: DumbCoder Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/6007 License: CC BY-SA 2.5 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Factset also provides a host of tools for analysis . Not many people know as they aren't as prevalent as Bloomberg. CapitalQ and Thomson Reuters also provide analysis tools. Most of the market data providers also provide analysis tools to analyze the data they and others provide.

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: John Roberts Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/8267 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Bloomberg is very popular, especially for researching individual companies. Market QA and Factset are popular for analyzing data. Microsoft Excel and Matlab are very common for analyzing the data. Lots of time traders will take data from Bloomberg, Market QA, Factset or where ever, and then actually preform their analytics in Excel or Matlab. A lot of the brokers provide their own software to traders using their platform, and that software can also contain different tools to help the traders as well.

External answer — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: Troggy Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/a/8277 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Another one I have seen mentioned used is Equity Feed . It had varies levels of the software depending on the markets you want and can provide level 2 quotes if select that option. http://stockcharts.com/ is also a great tool I see mentioned with lots of free stuff.