Free MetaStock Download: How the 30-Day Trial Really Works

The free MetaStock download, without the asterisks

Plain answer up front: MetaStock is not freeware, and there is no legitimate permanently-free copy. What exists is better than most "free downloads" anyway: the complete MetaStock 20, every feature unlocked, free for 30 days, direct from MetaStock, cancel anytime.

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Search "free MetaStock download" and you will find torrents and file-hosting sites offering cracked copies of MetaStock 10 or 11. Skip them, for three practical reasons beyond the obvious legal one. First, installers from those sources are a classic malware delivery vehicle, and you are proposing to run one on the machine you trade from. Second, those versions are more than a decade old and cannot connect to current data feeds, so you would get charting software with nothing to chart. Third, the official trial makes the whole exercise pointless: MetaStock gives away the real thing for a month.

The trial link on this site goes to MetaStock's own signup and download. It is an affiliate link (they pay us a commission, your price is unchanged), and it is the same current installer every official customer gets. You will create an account and enter payment details at signup; cancel anytime inside the 30 days and you pay nothing.

What happens once it is on your machine

The installer runs on Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit); Mac users need Parallels or a virtual machine, covered in the requirements page. On first launch you sign in, your trial's market data connects, and the Power Console becomes home base: open your first chart, build a watchlist, run your first Explorer scan.

MetaStock 20 Power Console after installation

First launch: the Power Console in MetaStock 20

Then make the month count, because a 30-day trial rewards a plan. Day one, work through the MetaStock Guide to learn where everything lives. Week one, get your own watchlist and a couple of scans running. After that, start the free formula language course so you finish the trial knowing whether MetaStock fits how you actually trade, not just whether it installed cleanly. Questions along the way live in the FAQ.

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What happens once it is on your machine

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