• You don't have to spend a lot of money to purchase a stock trading program. You can find free programs on the Internet. These tools come with comprehensive resources, such as stock charts and market news. They allow you to develop trading strategies and to simulate your strategies in real time.
  
  

The Market Toolbox

• The Market Toolbox is a free stock trading application that contains many of the same features that are found in expensive and sophisticated systems. The Multiple Document Interface allows you to open multiple pages, which will show The Market Toolbox's tools and content. You can use the tabbed browser options to switch between these windows. To close a window, double click on the tab. The Market Toolbox also enables you to tailor stock watch lists and portfolios to your preferences. The Market Toolbox provides multiple resources for researching stocks, including commentary, stock data and charts, market news and stock screeners.
  
  

QuantShare

• QuantShare is a flexible free stock trading tool. This software provides a sharing server so that when you come up with trading ideas, you can share them with other traders. QuantShare offers the ability to create advanced stock watch lists. This software automatically detects changes in the stock quotes and will update them. QuantShare also provides technical analysis so that you can get a better understanding of your stocks. Technical analysis is a methodology that traders use to try to predict the future direction of a stock's price. QuantShare's True Portfolio Backtester allows you to test your trading strategies by using historical prices. QuantShare enables you to trade U.S. and international stocks.
  
  

actiTRADER

• The actiTRADER tool is designed for traders who want to develop and simulate their trading strategies. You use Java to create your trading strategies. Java is a computer programming language. The actiTRADER system does not require you to be an expert in Java, but you must understand the fundamentals of the language. The actiTrader program comes with statistics for simulated and real-time trades. As a result, you will learn which trading strategies work and which ones don't.