Barchart: Founded in 1995, Now Carrying Prediction-Market Data Too
What it actually offers across three pricing tiers and a new Kalshi data partnership, and how it pairs with automated execution.
Market Data & News · 6 min read
BarchartThe hook: Barchart has been online since 1995, older than Google, and in November 2025 it added Kalshi prediction-market data to its coverage, a platform that started as futures quotes now sits alongside election and event-outcome pricing.
- Founded 1995 in Chicago, one of the first futures data sites online
- Three tiers: Free, Plus at $9.99/mo, Premier at $29.95/mo
- 50+ broker execution via Barchart Trader, separate from the Plus500 sponsorship
About Barchart
Barchart traces back to 1995 in Chicago, through Logical Systems Inc., making it one of the first websites to bring futures market data online, well before most digital finance brands existed. Its current leadership includes CEO Mark Haraburda (since 2016) and COO Andrew Lowdon, who has been with the company since 1995 and served as its CEO for the 15 years before Haraburda. The site now claims 4M+ monthly active users and 40M+ monthly views.
Its pricing runs three tiers, not one: a free tier, a Plus tier at $9.99/month with unlimited watchlists and a Commitment of Traders report, and Premier at $29.95/month (about $19.95/month billed annually) adding unlimited real-time alerts with SMS, advanced options screeners, and unusual options activity tracking. Its Plus500 sponsorship, announced June 2025, is a separate B2B advertising arrangement sold through a distinct product called Barchart Impact; separately, Barchart Trader offers actual electronic execution through the CQG order gateway across more than 50 futures brokers, broker-agnostic infrastructure rather than a single sponsorship deal.
Its data coverage has broadened recently too: a November 2025 partnership with Kalshi added prediction-market data, and an April 2026 partnership with Grão Direto added Brazilian grain price data, both extending Barchart well beyond its historical futures-and-commodities core.
What Barchart Offers
Real-Time Futures Quotes
Live pricing across the futures complex.
Three Pricing Tiers
Free, Plus ($9.99/mo), and Premier ($29.95/mo).
Barchart Trader
Optional electronic execution via CQG across 50+ futures brokers.
Options Screeners & Unusual Activity
Premier-tier tools for options flow tracking.
Prediction Market Data
Kalshi-sourced data added November 2025.
APIs & Enterprise Tools
Barchart OnDemand, Barchart Stream, and cmdtyView with an AI assistant called "Carl."
Mobile App
Stocks, futures, and forex coverage with real-time quotes and screeners.
Why Traders Rely On Barchart
Futures and commodities traders often need data that generalist finance sites don't prioritize, like seasonal contract patterns or options-on-futures pricing. Barchart's three-decade head start in that specific niche, plus its now-broader data coverage, is why it remains a default reference rather than treating futures as an afterthought behind equities.
A platform old enough to predate Google is now the same place traders check prediction-market odds on next year's election.
Barchart: Strengths and Limitations
Strengths
Limitations
Barchart FAQ
1995, in Chicago, tracing back to Logical Systems Inc., making it one of the first websites to bring futures market data online.
$29.95/month, or about $19.95/month billed annually, sitting above a $9.99/month Plus tier and a free tier.
No, it also covers stocks, ETFs, options, forex, and, as of a November 2025 Kalshi partnership, prediction market data.
Not on its main site, though a separate product, Barchart Trader, offers optional electronic trading through the CQG order gateway across 50+ futures brokers.
Automating a Barchart-Based Setup
Barchart is where a lot of futures traders build conviction, from technical signals to unusual volume to seasonal patterns. Converting that conviction into a filled order, consistently, is a separate skill. Define the trigger as a TradingView alert, and PickMyTrade places the order the instant it fires.
How it works
- Recreate the Barchart signal as a TradingView alert, no coding required
- Connect PickMyTrade to your broker or prop firm account once
- PickMyTrade executes automatically when the alert fires
- Copy the same signal across multiple accounts at once
No, traders typically recreate the logic behind a Barchart signal as a TradingView alert, which PickMyTrade then executes.
They serve different roles, Barchart Trader is Barchart's own CQG-based execution product, while PickMyTrade automates specifically from TradingView alerts across its own separate broker network.
PickMyTrade is an independent automation platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Barchart, unless otherwise stated. Trading futures and other leveraged products carries substantial risk of loss. Pricing and product details reflect what was published on Barchart's official site at the time of research and may have changed since.