“I favour Sierra Chart for its reasonable data packages and the professional tools available to the non professional traders like myself.
The challenges I have experienced in some cases it’s hard to find answers on how to use some of the features that it offers despite the literature on Sierra that explains a process step by step which is great but the only trouble is the literature is most of the times dense and not written in the simplest of English. For this case I believe video form illustrations would help.
The replay in sim can be a bit of a challenge on Sierra Charts especially where one is playing multiple charts with order flow (FPC) of the same Instrument at once, it doesn’t run as smoothly as a live
I have been trading with Sierra charts for 18months and briefly tried other platforms such as Motive Waves, Tradovate and Trading View I have repeatedly come back to Sierra perhaps because it’s been my training ground but certainly also for the favourable offers mentioned above.”
“Sierra Chart features are outstanding. I have been using the platform is the cream of the crop for me and been using it for over 15 years. Although the navigation may be too advanced for new users, other than the navigation, Sierra Chart is perfect for me!”
“The good - very stable, uses low system resources, simple to use once set up, good support
In between - can be used on multiple machines, eg laptop and desktop, reasonably easily; great 3rd party software available for copying trades to other brokers/prop firms with very low latency
The bad - a steep learning curve, especially for younger users who have grown up with a more intuitive Windows interface. Not so bad for users of a certain age.
Definintely worth the perceverace to get set up though.”
