Overcharts

What it is

Overcharts is a Windows charting and trading platform made by Tradersoft s.r.l. of Padova, Italy, for traders who read order flow. Its signature chart is the Volume Ladder — each bar opened up to show volume, bid and ask, and delta at every price, with stacked-imbalance zones, unfinished auctions, naked VPOCs and trade-size filters — the kind of display other platforms call a footprint. Around it sit a Market Depth Map, Volume Bubbles, Volume and TPO profiles, time and sales, and a DOM with trading from the ladder and the chart.

A newer addition is the Options Desk: up to three option chains per underlying with open interest, implied volatility, theoretical price and greeks, a volatility smile, and strategy grids that send all legs to the broker or the simulator in one batch. A GEX Profile indicator draws gamma and delta exposure by strike from the options market, and the vendor presents the resulting levels as support and resistance.

Strategies and indicators are written in OverBasic, the platform's own Basic-style language, in an editor with step-by-step debugging; the .NET languages are announced as coming. A backtesting engine models commission, slippage and intrabar fills, reports by period and exports to text or CSV, and can hold back part of the data for an out-of-sample run. A local simulator, a Market Replay that plays back tick or minute data at up to 1,000 times speed, and a Trade Copier that mirrors a leader account's orders onto follower accounts complete the set. The current release is 6.2.9, dated 4 July 2026.

Pricing

One feature set, sold two ways and billed in advance. All Inclusive is $39.95 a month, $36.95 a month quarterly, $33.95 semi-annually or $29.95 a month paid for a year. 2 Data-Feeds is the same software locked to two feeds of your choice — $29.95 a month quarterly down to $24.95 annually — and is not sold month to month. Prices exclude VAT and are converted to euros at payment. The pricing page says plans do not renew automatically; the terms of service nevertheless describe an auto-renewal mode, cancelled only in the platform's Account Settings, with no refund once it is on. Changing plan converts unused days to the new plan's value.

The free plan is the 30-day trial followed by end-of-day use: after the trial, Yahoo Finance, Metastock files and DDE links still work with no time limit, and nothing else does. Lifetime licences are mentioned in the terms of service but not offered on the pricing page.

Data & coverage

No data is included. The broker-and-feed page sorts sources by what they can do. Tick-by-tick history at every resolution: CQG and StoneX, Rithmic, Gain Capital, dxFeed and Directa. One-minute history at best: Interactive Brokers, TradeStation, Binance and Oanda. Of those, dxFeed and Binance are data-only; the rest trade too. Yahoo Finance gives free daily data, and Metastock files up to 65,000 intraday or 35,000 daily bars.

By broker, the futures desks behind Rithmic or CQG — AMP, Edge Clear, Dorman, Cannon, Stage 5, Lincoln Park, GFF and others — trade futures, options and spreads. Interactive Brokers trades every column on the page, stocks and forex included; TradeStation futures, stocks and options; Directa, an Italian broker, futures, stocks, options, forex and CFDs; Oanda forex and CFDs only. Prop firms using Rithmic — Earn2Trade, Apex Trader Funding, OneUp Trader, The Trading Pit and others — connect the same way.

Integrations

Every broker above, several at once if you like, plus Telegram for alert notifications. OverBasic code can play sounds, show notices or send Telegram messages itself. Backtest reports export to .txt or .csv. There is no external API, no Python and no webhook endpoint.

Limitations

• Data is a second bill. Budget the feed before the licence; the vendor's FAQ says the subscription gives access to the platform only.
• Interactive Brokers and TradeStation are not tick feeds here. Both bottom out at one-minute history, which limits what the volume ladder can show on them.
• Depth replays only if you recorded it. Market Replay has DOM data only for sessions you saved live, and tick replay needs a professional feed.
• Windows only, 64-bit, with a virtual machine as the Mac route.
• OverBasic only for now. C# and VB.NET strategies and full walk-forward analysis are marked as coming soon.
• GEX is a model. The GEX Profile infers dealer positioning from open interest; reading its levels as support and resistance is the vendor's interpretation, not a feature of the data.
• Refunds are narrow. None on monthly plans; longer plans lose €25 and a month's value.

Alternatives

ATAS is the closest match — footprint-led, Windows, data bought separately, priced in euros. Bookmap is built around the depth heatmap that Overcharts offers as one chart type. Sierra Chart sells its platform in packages from $26 a month, with C++ instead of Basic, and Quantower has a free tier and an open C# API. The head to head of the first group is Bookmap vs Jigsaw vs ATAS.