Those who disregard history are often doomed to repeat it. That's especially true in the stock market, where stocks typically run in the same sort of patterns. Those who are unaware or choose to be unaware of a stock's history are likely to get in trouble.

Because BetterTrades wants to do everything it can to keep its students from being in trouble, the Real Time Markets tool offers access to historical charts. Every stock, index and exchange traded fund has a chart that's easy to find, look at, and examine. The historical charts are a crucial part to the promise of boosting the safety level and winning percentage of a student's trades.

The historical charts can be adjusted for the amount of time the user wants to see. The time period can be changed to show daily, weekly, and monthly charts. Charts may be displayed as candlesticks, lines or bar charts, depending on the preference of the user.

The charts can be set up to show any number of indicators: Bollinger Bands, moving averages, MACD, Fibonacci lines, trend lines, support and resistance lines. All can be helpful, if not essential, when it comes time to make the correct technical analysis of a stock.

The historical charts also allow the user to change the colors on the indicators and chart settings. If your 50-day moving average is blue on Extreme Charts, you'll probably want it to be blue on Real Time Markets. The historical charts on Real Time Markets offer that sort of flexibility.

Another excellent touch to the historical charts is the volume bars at the bottom of the page. This will show a student when there's a high or low level of interest in a stock. It might be beneficial to know if a stock moved higher on a big volume move.