Trading & Investing Apps
The apps on the list below provide excellent (and mostly free) trading and investing resources on the go. The apps listed range from technical charting, market news, and financial education to investment research. Just click the icon to download from Apple’s App Store or the button to download from Google Play. Our top picks (in alphabetical order) for the best and most useful trading and investing apps are as follows:
Barchart
Barchart’s free app features extensive market data for stocks, indices, futures, commodities, and forex. The app offers customizable charts with technical analysis studies, financial news, and market commentary.
CME Group
CME Group operates several derivatives and futures exchanges worldwide. CME Group’s app features charts and information about its futures contracts and related derivatives, as well as free economic research and educational resources. It’s a great place to learn about futures and other derivatives trading.
CNBC
The CNBC app is a free app that provides real-time stock market data, business news, and financial information. It offers features such as live alerts, customizable watchlists, and streaming content from CNBC TV, with optional in-app subscriptions for additional premium content.
Coinbase
The Coinbase app allows users to securely buy, sell, trade, and store a wide range of cryptocurrencies. It offers tools for both novice and advanced traders, including real-time charting and a premium subscription service for additional benefits.
Coursera
Coursera’s app allows you to learn online from top universities and leading companies (e.g., Yale, Michigan, Stanford, Google, IBM, etc.). Coursera offers paid courses and certificate programs online in a variety of topics, including finance, economics, and accounting, at a low price compared to the cost of taking a course at one of the aforementioned universities. Coursera charges per course, or you can pay a monthly subscription fee. Sign up for an account here.
Investing.com
Investing.com’s app provides news, analysis, streaming quotes and charts, technical data, and financial tools about the global financial markets (including stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, futures, and options). Sign up for a free account here.
Japanese Candlestick Patterns
Japanese Candlestick Patterns is an educational app that aims to help you understand and master the 14 most powerful reversal candlestick patterns. The app features a learning hub, a pattern diagnostic tool, quizzes, a simulator, and a trader’s lab.
MarketWatch
The MarketWatch app, developed by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., is a free app that provides users with business news, financial analysis, and real-time market data. It allows users to track their portfolios with a customizable watchlist and offers breaking news and alerts.
Meetup
Meetup’s app allows you to schedule and sign up to attend local events held by groups that share your interests. It’s a great way to meet, learn, share trading ideas, and discuss investing with other investors and traders in your area.
Myfxbook
Myfxbook is a free app that allows forex traders to analyze their trading accounts and share their trades with the forex community. The app also offers a real-time forex calendar, real-time streaming forex quotes, and real-time forex news. Use their forex calculators to help you plan your trades.
Real Vision
Real Vision is a paid subscription service for on-demand financial videos. Real Vision produces excellent video content for investors and traders, such as interviews with the most successful investors, hedge fund managers, and traders; discussions of current market topics; and trade ideas. Sign up for an account here.
Robinhood
Robinhood is a free investing app that allows you to trade stocks, ETFs, options, futures, and cryptos, all commission-free. There is no minimum deposit required to open an account with Robinhood. It is a perfect free alternative for traders who don’t need a full-service broker. Sign up for a free account here.
Robinhood Wallet
The Robinhood Wallet is a self-custody crypto wallet that allows users to have full control over their digital assets. It enables seamless transactions, including buying, swapping, and storing various cryptocurrencies on multiple blockchains without a central custodian holding the private keys.
Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha’s app features crowd-sourced articles and research about stocks, options, ETFs, and other asset classes. Seeking Alpha also offers quotes, free earnings call transcripts, and financial analysis.
Skillshare
Skillshare is an online learning community. The app allows you to learn and teach others through educational videos. Skillshare offers a free membership with limited access to educational videos on a variety of topics, including finance and other business topics. Skillshare also offers a paid subscription to get unlimited access to all its classes. Sign up for a free account here.
Stock Screener, AI Scanner
The Stock Screener, AI Scanner app, developed by Ainvest FinTech, Inc., is a free app that uses an AI financial advisor named Aime to help users with stock screening and trading. The app allows users to sync their brokerage accounts, analyze their portfolios, and get personalized stock picks and trade signals.
StockTwits
StockTwits’ app is a social media platform for investors and traders, enabling them to share ideas and information about investing and trading. The app also offers chat rooms to discuss investing topics, a news feed, an earnings calendar, and a market data feed.
Tastylive
Tastytrade is an online financial news network that streams 8 hours of free live market commentary every weekday during market hours. You can access Tastytrade’s live programming through the app.
TradeGPT
The TradeGPT: Chart AI Analyzer app is an AI-powered tool for traders that analyzes screenshots of trading charts from various markets, including stocks and crypto. It can identify over 50 technical indicators and chart patterns, and provides real-time trading signals, price targets, and stop-loss levels.
TradingView
TradingView.com’s app is a financial social network for traders with a platform for technical analysis, where you can create and share technical charts and trading ideas. TradingView offers a limited free version and a full-featured paid subscription version. Sign up for a free account here.
Udemy
Udemy’s free app allows you to learn online from others. Udemy offers on-demand courses on a wide variety of topics. Learn about stocks, forex, futures, cryptos, technical analysis, etc. Udemy charges a small fee for its courses; however, it offers plenty of free courses. Just search for any topic, filter for Price Free, and start learning. Sign up for a free account here.
uValue
uValue is a free app that helps you value companies using several widely used valuation techniques. The app also features useful calculators to value bonds, annuities, and perpetuities, as well as to calculate the cost of capital, to forecast exchange rates, to lever/unlever betas, etc. This free app is perfect for value investors when doing their fundamental analysis.
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance’s free app features stocks and financial news. The app features real-time stock quotes, charts, and news. Yahoo Finance is a great place to research the fundamentals of a stock.
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