How to get good charts?

I'm relatively new to fx and using Oanda which isn't the strongest when it comes to charts and watching multiple currencies at the same time. Does anyone have any recommendations about how to get a hold of some better charts? Please include prices (or conditions -- eg. have to open an account with this broker), your opinion on ease of use, if you are actively using them with live trades, and/or any other pertinent info.

Thanks in advance!!

Cheers,
Jeff

There are plenty of quality charts that are free. I like Investools (Prophet.net), and if you want to monitor a few charts at the same time you can use FX Power charts.
dailyfx.com/charts

Metatrader 4 is a free (and relatively good) charting software that is used by a lot of people in this forum. You can use a free demo account as data feed. There is a lot of indicators written for this software that you can download, search FF forums.

I know that some people who use Oanda for trading, use Metatrader for charting.

Hope this helps,

Dane

I've tried:

eSignal
Pricey. And I'm still not convinced I can get used to their charts. Backtesting and automation is done in Javascript which isn't too bad.

Tradestation
Probably the best for backtesting equities and futures as the EasyLanguage is truly Easy... (Basic scripting but powerful) Their forex support sucks, with GAIN as their broker.

Medved QuoteTracker
Awesome!!! And only requires a small fee to get rid of advertising, other than that, it's free. Full featured and awesome support from Medved himself!

I will probably, at some point, move to QT permanently so I can reduce my costs.

I wanna try:

FXTrek
Looks promising. Contact Lewis from Leftbraintrading... He uses it and likes it.

Fibonacci Trader
My mentor uses it. Loves it.

Amibroker

CMS Visual Trading charts are very good too. The Disneyland of charting tools. Open to suggestions by charters and programmers. Also a great Forum right here at FFF. VT forum.

Quite possibly the most versatile of charting options. Trading right on the chart. Hedging available.

Two drawbacks: 1. Trading only mini or full lots. no micro lots. 2.No time stamps beyond the current time so guesswork when trying to project time in the future.

Oh... forgot to mention... they are Free !!

Lou

And No Expiry of Demo Accts. {Unless of course you blow it away.}

VT Trader users are presently trying to encourage CMS to supply Micro accts via mass email.

Like all other platforms, it has it's drawbacks but seems to listen to it's clients requests for improvements.

If any one of the [free] platforms available had no defects...
1) There would be No Competition.
2) It wouldn't be Free.

Thanks to all of you who have responded. I've been using MT4 for a couple of weeks and it's working well thus far. It also seems to have quite a following on FF with lots of indicators posted, etc. I'm using a demo feed from Alpari which matches pretty closely with Oanda (the broker I am planning on using when I go live -- at least at first).

I am going to try VT and Medved's as well to see if there are any competitive advantages there.

Cheers,
Jeff