ChartMill stock screener review: plans, data and fit

What ChartMill is for and who it suits

ChartMill is a web-based research tool that joins a stock screener, company reports and stock charts. Its own overview describes a three-step routine: narrow the market to a shortlist, study each candidate, then prepare your next move with charts, watchlists and alerts. That design suits self-directed swing traders and investors who want technical and fundamental filters side by side and who work from delayed or end-of-day data rather than live quotes.

ChartMill's market data page lists three regions:

• United States: Nasdaq, NYSE and Amex listings, with market data delayed by 15 minutes.
• Canada: TSX and TSX-V listings, with end-of-day data that also includes intraday data.
• Europe: Euronext and Xetra at end of day, plus Cboe Europe, which covers the main European exchanges with a 15-minute delay.

How screening works in ChartMill

The screener groups its filters into tabs such as Performance, TA Indicators, Support/Resistance, Growth, Profitability, Health, Valuation, Dividend, Analysts and Custom. You can start from a ready-made screen, including screens based on CANSLIM, Mark Minervini's trend template and Weinstein stage analysis, and adapt the criteria, or build a screen from scratch. Results can be viewed as a table, as charts or in a custom view with the columns you choose.

• Numeric filters accept exact values with at least, at most or between conditions, after a September 2026 update replaced many sliders.
• A Symbols filter checks whether one ticker meets every condition of the current screen.
• Saved screens keep their filters and sorting, and Add to list copies a whole result set into a watchlist when the screen returns fewer than 500 stocks.
• Most screener values are recalculated once a day, about an hour after the US close. Open, high, low, close and volume also update during the session for US stocks and Cboe Europe.

Reports, charts and alerts in ChartMill

Each stock has a Technical Analysis Report covering trend, relative strength, support and resistance and possible setups, and a Fundamental Analysis Report covering profitability, growth, financial health, valuation and dividends. Financial statements, earnings estimates, analyst ratings, ownership data and company news sit behind those reports. The charts add technical indicators, automatically drawn support and resistance, annotations and position-sizing tools.

Alerts can watch a single stock or a whole watchlist. The documented types cover price levels, trading setups, upcoming earnings, press releases, insider transactions, new fundamentals, analyst rating changes, saved screens and liked trading ideas. Triggered alerts arrive by email and in your user feed. ChartMill notes that price alerts are not real time, so they suit noticing when a stock reaches a new price area rather than managing an open position.

The ChartMill Setup Value shown in screener results is computed after the close, while the technical report shows a live score during the session, so the two can differ while the market is open.

ChartMill pricing and subscription cost

ChartMill sells two subscriptions, billed in advance in US dollars with an option to pay in euros. Both renew automatically until you cancel; cancelling stops the next renewal, you keep access to the end of the paid period, and unused time is not refunded pro rata. ChartMill states that a subscription has no extra usage charges and that market data stays 15 minutes delayed with a subscription.

ChartMill's billing notes say introductory offers renew at the regular price shown with the plan, so budget for the full monthly rate after the first month.

Is there a ChartMill free plan or free trial?

The subscription page lists only the two paid plans and no free trial; the nearest equivalent is the monthly plan's first month at $13.97. When we checked on October 1, 2026, the stock screener page also loaded and listed results without signing in, so you can try basic screening before paying. ChartMill describes its paid plans as full access to its tools without advertisements, which is the practical difference to weigh.

ChartMill pros and cons

The points below come from ChartMill's own documentation and plan pages, not from user ratings.

Strengths:

• Technical and fundamental filters, ratings and reports live in one workspace, so a screen leads straight into company research.
• Ready-made screens based on published approaches give you a starting point you can edit.
• Alerts can follow saved screens and whole watchlists, not only single prices.
• Coverage includes Canadian and European listings as well as US stocks.

Trade-offs:

• Market data is 15 minutes delayed even on paid plans, which does not suit decisions that depend on live quotes.
• Most screener values refresh once a day after the US close, so intraday screening is limited to price and volume fields.
• Price alerts are not real time.
• Adding a full result set to a watchlist works only for screens with fewer than 500 results.
• The annual discount comes bundled with a trading course; the monthly plan is the option without it.

ChartMill for beginners, swing trading and long-term investing

ChartMill organizes its own guides by research style, which makes it easier to judge fit before paying.

• Beginners: a documentation center, video tutorials and editable ready-made screens explain the filters, and the annual plan adds the Mastering Swing Trading course. Learn what ChartMill's own ratings measure before you lean on them.
• Swing trading: ChartMill publishes a swing trading screener guide for breakout and pullback candidates, and a setup alert can watch a watchlist for consolidations or pullbacks. Delayed data and daily screener updates fit an end-of-day swing routine more naturally than intraday entries.
• Long-term investing: fundamental reports, financial statements, earnings estimates, analyst ratings and dividend measures support quality, value and dividend screens.

ChartMill alternatives and how they differ

Consider another tool when your needs fall outside ChartMill's design. Traders who act on live quotes may look at real-time platforms such as Trade Ideas or StocksToTrade. Investors who want long fundamental histories and portfolio tracking may look at Stock Rover, and chart-focused traders who write their own scans may compare StockCharts. Our guide to choosing a stock screener lists the questions to settle first.

TradeClever, the publisher of this guide, is another option if you prefer screens written as readable rules. Its CleverScan language expresses conditions such as close > sma50 and volume > avgVol20 on daily data from published sessions, and Scan as of runs a rule for an earlier session. Its stock analysis works without an account, and its screener and heatmap offer a preview without one; running your own scans and saving scans, watchlists and notes need an account.

Is ChartMill worth it? Run your own test

Whether ChartMill is worth the subscription depends on how closely it matches a routine you already follow. Use the public screener page and, if needed, the discounted first month to run the same checks you would apply to any screener.

1. Rebuild one screen you already use and compare its results with your current tool.
2. Note when the results change, since most values update about an hour after the US close.
3. Open the technical and fundamental reports for three results and check whether each rating explains its reasoning.
4. Set a saved-screen alert and see when the email arrives.
5. Decide whether you need the swing trading course before choosing annual billing over monthly.
6. Read the cancellation terms: access lasts to the end of the paid period, and unused time is not refunded pro rata.