Overview
Sierra Chart is a high-performance desktop trading and charting platform designed for financial markets. It supports live and simulated trading, both manual and automated. The platform offers real-time and historical charting with powerful technical analysis tools. It uses direct connections to data and trading services, avoiding black box APIs for enhanced reliability. Sierra Chart emphasizes stable, efficient, and rational software, built from scratch in native C++ without Java or .NET, ensuring high performance and robustness. It offers comprehensive documentation, excellent support, and customization through the Advanced Custom Study Interface and Language or built-in Excel compatible Spreadsheets. The platform supports various data feeds and trading services using FIX and DTC protocols, providing connectivity to major exchanges for stocks, futures, indexes, currencies/forex, and options.