ADVFN is one of the worlds largest financial stock portals around.  Its a great site to get information for financial information and to follow stocks/options/futures being traded all over the world.  I have been using them for years, strictly for information and their free tools like portfolio manager and to get quotes and charts.  I just recently joined on to one of their services for Level 2 quotes, but it is not necessary.  If you actively trade you should have level 2 quoting.  Trading without level 2 is not a good idea.  I use to use another service for my level 2 but I just switched everything over to ADVFN.  I highly recommend ADVFN for charts and quotes and the most important, keeping up to date with the financial market news from around the world.  Register for FREE at ADVFN.