Online Platforms for Trading

Barchart Trader is a premier market data and trading platform built with professional features and data, as well as ease-of-use for traders. Barchart Trader ensures flexibility with its customization features, multiple monitor support, choice of themes and wide range of features. With Trader's integrated futures trading, you can route orders directly through Straits Financial and use features like DOM, Chart Trader, or Trading from the Quote Board.

Market Data

With direct connectivity to dozens of exchanges, you have access to ultra-low-latency real-time streaming market data across futures, options, and commodities.

DOM Trader

The DOM trader gives you the ability to trade directly from the order book. You can place market orders, limit orders and stops while monitoring for volume traded at various price levels.

Charting

With an interactive charting tool that offers advanced features, you can easily switch between different chart types, change time periods and add from over 70 technical studies with a dozen drawing tools.

Chart Trader

Chart Trader gives you the ability to directly trade futures from your charts. You can monitor positions and P&L as the market updates in real-time, as well as place market, limit and stop orders.

Additional Features

• Mobile apps: Trade on android or iOS phones or tablets with ease
• Multiple monitor support: View quotes, charts, news from 2 or more screens
• Customize workspaces: Easily design your own workspaces for a custom experience
• Options: Includes filters to monitor all strikes or limit to those at and near the money

CQG™ offers one of the most extensive and reliable data and market analysis tools in the industry. For over 30 years, professional traders have relied on CQG's™ accurate, uninterrupted, high-quality data. CQG™ provides a large variety of customizable charting techniques and formulas to fit the needs of any trader.

CQG Simple

Offers the same features of all the CQG family of products including quote board, DOM trader and position monitoring. The biggest difference is that the DOM trader only displays the current bid and offer of a product.

CQG Trader

This is the standard CQG trading platform that most everyone is familiar with. Once installed, this product includes the traditional quote board, DOM trader and position monitoring.

QTrader

Qtrader provides standard graphing and charting capabilities with the traditional CQG-Trader platform.

CQG Integrated

This is the full expanded version that CQG offers. This will include higher level graphing and charting functionality plus enhanced order entry capabilities which includes Auto-spreader

CTS T4 has all the functionality that a professional trader demands while still remaining user-friendly for the retail trader. Full functionality and customization allow all users to create a trading screen that perfectly fits their own trading style.

With real-time quotes, one-click trading, multiple order types, a built-in charting package, real-time news and economic indicator feeds, and much more, T4 will satisfy the scalper, position trader, or executing broker.

Key Features

T4 Desktop offers all the basic standard functionality any professional trader needs, along with many enhanced features. The system offers:

• Real-time quotes 
• Real-time P&L and position updates
• Customize fonts, colors and sounds 
• Built-in charting packages 
• Real-time news and economic indicator feeds 
• Dual-layout capability 
• Switch between contract markets with a single click 
• One-click and keyboard order entry 
• Multiple quote boards and order books 
• Access to all available exchanges 
• Expansive list of order types, both simple and advanced

Accessibility

Whether you are at home, in your office, or on the road, when you trade with T4, all you need is access to the internet and a computer and you are ready to trade. T4 Desktop can be hard-wired to your firm's network or can easily be used at home via your home internet connection.

Customization

Create your own customized functionality or your own black box system using T4's available open API.

FutureSource Trader is an integral part of Interactive Data’s FutureSource market data and trading platform. It offers the perfect balance between C&E specific content and feature-rich trading functionality in an intuitive and highly customizable environment. 

Futuresource Trader - Interactive data's trading solution for the global commodities and energy industry

FutureSource is a preferred global market data and analytics platform for professional traders, brokers and risk managers who need to make more informed buying and selling decisions in today’s challenging and evolving global marketplace. 

FutureSource Trader is the latest generation global trading platform for commodities and energy traders who require C&E market intelligence, feature-rich trading functionality, and an intuitive and modern workspace. With connections to a wide array of data from over 180 exchanges and many OTC sources including the world’s key Price Reporting Agencies, clients can trade futures, options and multiple contracts across the agriculture, financial and energy market sectors. 

The FutureSource Trader platform provides simple access to targeted C&E market insight, including advanced charting of seasonality and forward curves, live weather maps, and real-time, streaming news. This flexible cloud-based application includes a suite of powerful analytics, pre / post-trade risk management tools and watchlist functionality to drive complex trading strategies.

A widely distributed and market-leading application, J-Trader is simple to deploy, easy to use, and provides all the functionality you would expect of a successful front-end. It is the all-purpose trading tool.

J-Trader provides direct access to all the leading exchanges and includes the following benefits: advanced functionality, such as multi-exchange spreading and one-click scalping; protection of orders with trailing stops; real-time profit and loss; deployable on internet, WAN, LAN, leased lines, etc.; single and multiple account trading.

QT Market Center is a comprehensive, real-time commodity quote and charting platform with order entry. QT has integrated its diverse market-focused product line into one user-friendly system, giving users the ability to access useful information to make informed business decisions. Create your own custom quote screens; access the latest news, government reports, and weather; and get the inside scoop from seasoned market professionals — all for one small monthly fee.

Features

• HTML5 technology
• Futures and options quotes
• Order entry
• Professional chart package

News Enablements

• QT commodity news feed
• QT weather
• QT audio
• Archived USDA and Govt reports

Additional Features

• Text / email / IM / audio / video messaging features
• Includes companion mobile and tablet products

R | Trader™

R | Trader™ is Rithmic’s front-end trading and real-time risk management screen. With R | Trader™ you can view quotes, trades, market depth and option strikes in real-time. You can place, modify and cancel orders, and view order history, performance, positions and risk limits. R | Trader™ supports trailing stops, brackets, OCOs and group orders. Broker can use R | Trader™ to execute on behalf of any of their users and accounts.

R | Trader Pro™

R | Trader Pro™ is R | Trader™ with charts and a real-time interface to and from Microsoft Office Excel. In addition to all the functionality of R | Trader™, with R | Trader Pro™ you can view about 100 studies and stream them in real-time into Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets. With the power of Excel, you may develop your own indicators and, using Rithmic’s two-way real-time interface, you may configure trades to be sent back into R | Trade Execution Platform™ through R | Trader Pro™, automatically or with the click of a button.

Straits Direct Application Suite

The Straits Direct is a state-of-the-art derivatives trading platform by Straits Financial. In addition to an intelligent and precise order entry and order management system, the platform also provides a comprehensive range of quoting and charting tools, industry news, and data analytics.

Executive Overview

• Straits Direct is a revolutionary futures trading application that combines comprehensive, fast and flexible order entry / order management with world-class charting and analytics, real-time quotes and news
• Order entry is pervasive throughout Straits Direct. From virtually any screen, you can enter and manage orders and fills
• Integrated paper trading allows users to learn to use the interface and practice trading strategies. With the click of a button, users can toggle between paper and live trading

Market Data Coverage

Straits Financial LLC provides access to all global major futures exchanges.

Application Features

• Efficient, intuitive and consistent order entry: left click = buy, right click = sell. Unlike other products that display useless eye candy, the order entry function is simple and concise. It is truly a "single action" operation
• Consistent user interface with multiple methods of interaction, including icons, drop-down menus and keyboard shortcuts
• "Workspace" metaphor with multiple tabbed workspaces divided into one or more internal frames. Frames can be pulled into external windows
• Multiple monitor support
• Infinitely configurable colors, layouts and font sizes
• "Mobile Desktop" allows users to save a copy of their desktop and to log in from another location and retrieve the exact desktop that they saved. Work from home or the office using the same screen layouts and configuration
• "Themes" functionality allows user to easily create a unified color scheme throughout all the screens of the application
• Templates for multiple frame workspaces, trading workspaces, and chart-link workspaces
• Context sensitive month selection. Type a contract, and the valid month / year pairs appear in a window. Contract selection system allows search by category, exchange, description and symbol. Simply click on the symbol to enter it
• Contract details shows exchange, contract value, minimum tick size and value, open / close time and margin requirements

Straits Edge is a user-friendly platform with fixed order entry capabilities for individual, professional and institutional traders. Straits Edge was built for scalability and affordability without compromising reliability.

Features

• Scale globally across all markets 
• Fully customizable for your specific needs 
• Trade allocator for brokers 
• Global order book 
• Auto-spreaders

Introducing Straits iSystems

Straits Financial is excited to be one of the first US FCMs to offer connectivity to the iSystems Automated Trading System Platform. The platform allows clients to browse 100s of automated trading systems - with the ability to view overall performance, monthly profit / loss, trade logs, and all of the relevant risk / reward statistics. Clients subscribe to the systems they like and activate the systems for live trading in their account. They decide how many contracts to trade, whether to get in line with the algorithm or wait until the next signal and can then monitor all of the activity in real time on the website with the ability to start and stop systems at any time they choose. 

Trading systems can remove the emotions and provide consistency to your trading and most have the profile of risking a small amount on each trade while aiming to make several times that amount. They come in all shapes and sizes, trading a variety of products such as the e-Mini S&Ps, Euro Currency, and even European futures markets. Minimum investments can be as low as $1,000 in some cases but generally, range from $5,000 to $25,000. 

Please see the iSystems program materials for further information and disclaimers on this product. Trading in futures products entails significant risks of loss and may not be appropriate for all investors.

The Straits MESA trading platform software provides accurate real-time and historical data features, multiple order entry tools, including trading through the charts, unlimited simulation, complete and customizable charting indicators and drawing tools.

Innovative Order Entry

Trading Through the Charts - Trade by clicking on the price bars or candlesticks to enter and manage trades.

Trading Through the Trade Windows - Choose from classic and "3.x" trade windows. Trade windows offer to trade the market depth and highlight the bid / ask spread.

Complete Charting Package

Unlimited charts included - Straits MESA includes unlimited charts in any increment for any electronic market.

Customizable Charts - Any time, tick, volume, or range-bar based interval and can include any indicator. Charts are highly customizable, flexible, user-friendly and include a diverse set of educator charts available.

Order Strategies

Automatic Order Strategies - Pre-define your money management strategy to enforce consistency and discipline for your trading methodology.

Unlimited Number of Strategies - Users can create an unlimited entry and exit strategies that trigger upon an event, such as a fill or mouse click.

Market Replay

Replay the Markets - Market replay allows you to sim-trade recorded market data. Replay the markets in real time or speed up the replay for back-testing strategies.

Trader Collaboration

Trade with Friends or Colleagues - Share your current position status, working orders and profit and loss, all in real time.

Trading Technologies is the market leading provider of auto-trading and inter-market spreading tools for all asset classes. TT is the number one E-trading solution for tick traders and energy traders in North America.

Simultaneously trade multiple markets from one fully-customizable screen with superior speed, stability and accuracy. Single-click order execution and the patented MD Trader® ladder coupled with tools for automated trading, charting and more give traders the edge for optimal trading performance.

Highlights

• Superior speed and reliability 
• Industry-leading features and proprietary technologies 
• Multiple products, asset classes and markets from a single screen 
• Server-side engines, synthetic order types, autotrading tools and APIs

Supported Devices

• Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
• Android touchscreen phones
• Windows Mobile 7 phones
• Nokia touchscreen phones
• Palm Pre

Flexibility and Functionality

With T4 Mobile you get:

• Customization which allows you to modify colors
• Simplified order book and account views
• Real-time quotes
• Real-time profit and loss, and position updates
• Order types including: markets, limits, stops, stop-limits, trailing stops and GTCs
• Accessibility to all the available exchanges at no additional cost

Cunningham Trading Systems provides a mobile trading version for their popular desktop application. T4 Mobile allows you to run directly on both the Apple iPhone and on phones running Google Android, allowing you basic trading capabilities from the palm of their hand. With an Apple iPhone or Android phone, you can trade, follow market activity, monitor positions, enter new orders and revise existing orders with ease and convenience.

T4 Mobile offers an easy-to-use interface that utilizes Apple and Google's touchscreen technology. In addition, you get real-time order submission and a back-end that offers extreme reliability. If you are an existing T4 user, T4 Mobile is available to use now. The same username and password can be used for all T4 products.

Straits Direct Mobile offers real-time streaming quotes, advanced order entry capabilities, news, world-class charting and analytics. Employing an intuitive and easy-to-use design, it was developed with feedback from professional traders. Straits Direct Mobile delivers reliability, accuracy, usability and high performance. Straits Direct Mobile can be used on either an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone 7 or Blackberry.

This application offers you the perfect balance between trading with one tap and, at the same time, offers in-depth customizations for your trading actions. Visualizing your portfolio has never been easier. Applying filters and using simple gestures can show or hide details on any item in your portfolio. Real-time notifications provide instant feedback during your trading session.

Barons Trading Group now offers iBroker as an option for a mobile trading device. iBroker is a simple, intuitive app for trading Futures Options wherever you are for several types of mobile devices. iBroker can be used on either an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android or Windows Phone 7.

iBroker's simple yet powerful design was built by traders, for traders. Whether you want to trade Futures with real-time charts and indicators, or just want a price alert when E-Mini S&P futures hit a certain level, the iBroker app has what you need. iBroker provides simple and elegant controls for entering orders, adjusting prices, reversing positions, and more. Your eyes will easily find their way with an intuitive design adapted to each device.

Compatibility:

Mobile Devices 

• Android smartphones and tablets
• Apple iPad 2, iPad generations 3 and 4, and iPad Air
• Apple iPhone 4S, 5, 5C, and 5S

Barons Trading Group is pleased to offer a mobile trading application from CQG called CQG M or M-trader.

CQG M / M-Trader is an HTML5-based mobile app that delivers market data, order management, and electronic trading on phones, tablets, PCs, and Macs. It allows traders to see advanced market data and execute orders on the go.

Customers can stay connected to the markets anywhere, anytime with CQG M / M-trader.