barchart.comReviews of barchart.com

The site has been experiencing more breakdowns recently. Customer service and top management is really nonchalant even when you bring this to their attention. When top management does not even reply to you when you point out issues you know no one gives a shit. I applaud them for the information they disseminate. But it's things like this that causes a company to lose customers. And if management doesn't bother about this...something is wrong. If things get worse I will consider canceling my subscription.

I don't believe the %Chg data as shown on Barchart accounts for the impact of dividends/distributions. This would be most evident in the performance of bond funds since they make monthly distributions. I looked at the data for 3 Vanguard bond funds and found the following one year gains as reported on Barchart and two others websites. The two others websites report identical information (as of the close on 1/31/25) and they account for the re-investment of dividends. VFSUX VSCSX VBTLX Vanguard 5.23% 5.07% 2.12% Morningstar 5.23% 5.07% 2.12% Barchart 1.08% 4.27% -1.04% I believe other data reported on Barchart is dependent on this performance data, i.e., Wtd Alpha, Strength, Opinion, etc. So.... if the performance data is not reliable how can you depend on the other information provided for guidance? In the assets shown above the performance of VFSUX and VSCSX are quite similar (as reported by Vanguard and Morningstar and accounting for reinvestment of dividends). However, the Wtd Alpha, Strength and Opinion on Barchart is quite different for these two assets because the one year performance data as shown on Barchart is significantly different (1.08% vs. 4.27%). Therefore, VSCSX is rated 96% Buy, while VFSUX is rated Hold. In actuality, VFSUX performed a bit better than VSCSX over multiuple time frames (1m, 3m, 1year) per Morningstar. Until Barchart can explain/correct these discrepancies, I do not feel comfortable relying on the other data on the website for investment guidance.

Simply reading articles from Barchart has left me soured on ever considering their services. In the most recent, columnist Caleb Naysmith speaks of Musk's supposedly consistently building billion dollar companies, and lists Tesla as an example. Musk is better known for parasitical takeovers of succesful companies, such as Twitter and Tesla, amongst numerous others, and hemmorhaging them from within, causing irreparable and unnecessary damage, along with multitudinous alleged drug use assertions coming from sources often at the very top of relevant companies. As Euronews reported, "Sources familiar with the allegations over possible drug use said the claims referred to drugs including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy & ketamine." Starting around the time of said allegations, and since, Elon seems to have exhibited a serious fall from a humane mindset, not to mention lowered intelligence, and a disturbing embrasure of authoritarianism & paranoia, and yet the article, ignoring all this, rather painted Musk's latest moves as practically genius somehow, something even most layman would find exceedingly laughable at this late date. Anyone painting such currently volatile machinations as worthy of emulating is not someone I want giving me business or financial advice, or services.

Only useful for predicting the past. Very poor indicating future.

If you want to be spammed like crazy from all types of investment scams then sign up with barchart.com. While I signed up to download some of the data they offer the amount of SPAM I immediately started receiving was overwhelming. They said they put me on a do-not-email list, but apparently, it was too late because the SPAM kept coming. If you need data export it from TradingView, do not sign up with them and pay them so they can share your email address to be spammed.

I have withdrawn from their subscription list several times and they continue to send me 2 to 3 advertising emails per day, when I was their customer I contacted customer service twice and NEVER was I contacted answered, no professionalism they just want your money

Excellent web site... But the absolute worst customer support if you have any issue. I cannot even log back in after the site got mixed up. I have several computers with linux and windows operating systems and their "tech support cannot provide ANY help. When it woks it is great but God help you if you need any support.