MetaStock is a pro-grade charting platform built for traders who care about timing: advanced charts, market scanning, backtesting, forecasting, and “expert” overlays. For dividend capture, it’s a powerful entry/exit timing tool — not a dividend-calendar tool.

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Quick Summary

What Is MetaStock?

MetaStock is a desktop trading analysis platform that comes in versions aimed at different trading styles (end-of-day vs. real-time). The big idea is “do the hard thinking with tools”: scan for candidates, analyze charts with indicators, test rules historically, and use alerts/monitoring so you’re not glued to the screen.

What It’s Good At

• Pro-grade charting: clean technical charts with indicators and drawing tools for serious analysis.
• Market scanning: build criteria-based scans to find candidates instead of hunting ticker-by-ticker.
• Backtesting: test rules against historical data to see how a strategy behaved before real money gets involved.
• Forecasting tools: includes forecasting features that model “what tends to happen after X.”
• Expert overlays + add-ons: supports expert-style guidance on charts and optional third-party add-ons that expand indicators, explorations, and system tests.
• Options monitoring (advanced): includes option-chain monitoring and related tools for traders who work that angle.

How Yield Raiders Use It

Dividend capture is a fast, disciplined campaign. MetaStock helps you cut the two big enemies: (1) bad entries and (2) sloppy rules you never tested. Think of it as your “planning room” tool — where you stack the odds before you ever click Buy.

• Candidate screening: scan for liquidity, trend direction, and basic “avoid the dumpster fire” filters.
• Entry timing: confirm the stock isn’t breaking down right before you try to capture a dividend.
• Rule testing: backtest your entry/exit rules so you’re not reinventing the wheel every month.
• Discipline by design: watchlists and monitoring keep your focus on your plan, not your impulses.

“MetaStock won’t make the trade for you. It helps you stop making the trade at the worst possible moment.”

Watch-outs

• Not a dividend calendar: it’s not built around ex-dividend dates, payout schedules, or capture-specific workflows.
• Data setup matters: MetaStock is tightly tied to its data packages; real-time and delayed data behavior depends on your subscription/data configuration.
• Desktop + learning curve: this is a “workstation,” not a simple web dashboard. Expect setup time.
• Not trade execution: it’s primarily analysis and monitoring; you’ll still place trades at your broker.

Pricing & Access Info

• Pricing: Check site for up-to-date pricing.
• Login Required? Yes
• Upsells or Ads? Expect plan tiers plus optional market data packages and add-ons depending on the features/markets you want.

Verdict: If you’re serious about timing, scans, and testing rules, MetaStock can be a beast in the best way. Just pair it with a dividend-dates tool for the scheduling side of dividend capture.

Pros & Cons

Our Verdict

“MetaStock is a serious trading workstation: scan, chart, test, and refine. For Yield Raiders, it’s most valuable for candidate filtering and clean entry/exit timing — not for the dividend calendar itself.”

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