Barcharts is decent, its one of my top 3. Seeking Alpha, Benzinga, and Barcharts. They all have unique qualities and different features. I also use stock house as well but the top 3 are in order above.
I personally like to compare each site to the others to see the difference and watch to see which one is more accurate. The thing I like the most about Seeking Alpha is its updated alerts. They are extremely quick. Fill your portfolio with whatever stocks your watching and you will get immediate alerts as they come out. Coupled with their huge email variety of reports, and other data. They are definitely the best to have for up-to-date information. Alright before anyone yells, they are the best that I have found so far so if anyone knows another that is better I am certainly all ears.
Also Seeking Alpha has about 5M+ users making it a large network of investors. Best part is, everything you really need is free. Downside your portfolio is only allowed 250 or 200 stocks so your limited but if you create multiple accounts with multiple emails then you your potential is unlimited. Just have to stay logged into different emails to be able to get all of your alerts. For one browser though ;) you can do hotmail, gmail, yahoo right away for 600-750 stocks and then add any other email service you know. Then if you can use firefox and google chrome you can double it :) shh i didn't say that though.
Benzinga is also good for alerts as well but they have a more diverse view of stocks allowing for better analysis in my opinion.
Barcharts is good for statistics such as top gainers over X amount of time or top losers or similar things like that.
If your using a trade platform you will already have the benefit of all the charting systems they used and with more control over it.
Stockhouse really I just use for the forums. It has a large community as well and is a good place to find other people investing.
Here is a list of links for sites that I use that are free.
www.seekingalpha.com
www.barcharts.com
www.benzinga.com
www.stockhouse.com
www.thelion.com (decent forum but can be aggressive)
Those are the ones I have bookmakred. I know there is more but I don't remember them all.
incrediblecharts - is great place to learn more about charting
google finance - can customize your news around your portfolios and has a nice portfolio system which I use it for. Its the first place I go to check for recent news as I have found they have the largest variety of news reporting agencies
yahoo finance - i really use it just for the conversations. I tried signing up for a group and now my yahoo mail gets bombed with singles adds. and no that wasn't the group I tried to join :P
money-morning - is one of the best financial news outlets in my opinion. They are unbiased and offer strong support for upcoming stocks. They are primarily free but they also have a sister company Money Map Press which is expensive but has professional analysts who have been investing in their fields for 15-20-30 years. Each package is like $1,500 for a year subscription. I had 2 but finally discontinued them but watching their stocks from when I first saw them. Are doing well. Some were MZOR, PAAS, IMMU (before and after their crush, was like 20% a day until they got kicked out of a medical conference then for 3 weeks it just plummited but looks like now its over its previous value)HZNP, TSLA, NVDA, NEO, there was like 26 i was watching I could provide the list later if I find it. Some of the not so good ones at the time i haven't checked recently, BOX & KROS.
stockhouse is good for its forums the other features i haven't used much so can't comment on them.
www.macroaxis.com - in my opinion is hands down the best analytical site. They have every possible measurement you can think of. It is free but on a very limited daily basis. Their lowest package is $8 and I personally find it well worth it.
thelion.com has a large forum and blog area but as I mentioned they can be kinda of um... aggressive.
www.marketwatch.com and yahoo.com are also good for pulling company financials and statistics.
www.nasdaq.com is the only site that shows smaller than 1 penny amounts in their historical data. so if your looking to analyze SGBY for instance nasdaq would probably be your best bet.
www.otcmkt.com is great for SEC filings, corporate actions and general news for pennies and other various stocks.
www.zacks.com is a very strong financial site but they push very aggressively for you to sign up.
however to fully answer your question, barcharts is a decent site. I just like to compare information from one site to the next to see which is more accurate.
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