There are a number of different kinds of Stock Trading Software to help you be a better stock trader.
Stock charting software allows you to create charts of the stocks you are interested in trading.
This is one of the most common type of stock software. In fact, there are many trading websites that allow you to create stock charts for free.
You can also buy ready-made stock trading system software. The trading system is already built and the software will tell yo when to buy or sell a stock. Software of this type is sometimes referred to as stock prediction software or stock picking software.
There are packages that allow you to perform both basic and advanced technical analysis on the stocks of your choice. Some of these may have it’s own simple programming language built. This allows traders to build and test their own customized trading systems. Packages of this will almost always include many excellent stock charting features.
The last type I’d like to touch on is the stock trading platform. Traders actually place their trades online using their platform. With some of these the trader can automate the entire process and have the software place the trades for them. If you do decide to use a platform to automatically place your trades I would suggest that you test the process out thoroughly to minimize any potential errors.