I like real time as I keep an eye on the Wm%, fast stochs and RSI on real time- they are the first to turn and alert me if it may retraceor where it may bounce typically from a retrace... BUT I had a friend tell me about the charts offered on Alphatrade and I have to say that I get a lot more out of the 1 minute chart there-it is super and easy to assimilate the movments and information the chart gives- this coupled with watching Level II at the same time is pretty good. I use stockcharts to either get the chart -big picture of maybe the weekly etc...I already had AT but had not been using the 1 minchart- finding THAT most useful. I do like to annotate a stockchart chart in real time too... hope that helps :)