Best Trading Software

Lightspeed Trader

The Ideal Trading Platform for Stocks and Options with Over 100 Order Routing Destinations

Lightspeed Trader is our flagship trading platform. It is the perfect solution for day traders. We continually invest in the latest trading technologies to deliver real-time quotes and executions faster. Lightspeed delivers a robust trading system to the day traders and professionals that demand highly established market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and rules to best fit their trading style. Keyboard traders and point and click traders are covered with fully customizable home screens and Lightspeed Trade Reporting.

Highlighted features include:

• Completely customizable
• Complex options trading
• Integrated charting with studies
• Multi-threading for hyper-speed
• Advanced scanners and filters
• Research capabilities powered by TipRanks

Lightspeed Web & Mobile

For clients who prefer a web and mobile-based trading platform

The Lightspeed Web & Mobile platform has been designed to look, feel, and function in a way that is similar to our downloadable platforms. It is our web-based trading application and is specifically designed for active traders on the go. The Web & Mobile application allows customers to trade from any PC, Mac, smartphone or tablet with an internet connection.

Web & Mobile provides users with streaming real-time data and offers fast and easy-to-use order entry and execution to meet the needs of savvy traders. Users can trade stocks and options on the go from a single screen for a seamless trading experience.

With no monthly software fee and no monthly market data fees, it is one of the most economical trading platforms available. Lightspeed also offers some of the lowest option commissions available online.

Features include:

• Streaming Level 1 Quotes
• Equities & Options
• After Hours Trading
• Customizable Layout
• Dynamic Time & Sales Data
• No Silverlight Plugin
• Watchlists

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Automated Trading System

Lime Trading Gateway

Fully Automated Trading System for the low latency sophisticated automated trader

Lime Brokerage pioneers the world’s most advanced trading technologies providing systematic traders and institutions access to superior liquidity and access to the most automated, high-volume electronic trading markets for U.S. equities and options. The Lime Trading Gateway provides unsurpassed reliability and scale, offering access for the low latency sophisticated automated trader via a C++ or JAVA API and FIX.

Developed to handle the demands of the automated and electronic trading community, the Lime Trading Gateway caters to a diverse and sophisticated client base. The result is a robust, highly reliable, affordable, independent, agency-only system that includes market data and trading platforms that allow clients to trade efficiently and anonymously across all major lit and dark market venues.

Highlighted systematic trading features include:

• Optimal Trading Server
• Superior Market Data
• Smart Execution
• World Class Network Co-Location and Proximity Hosting
• Correspondent Clearing Services
• Comprehensive Pre-Trade Risk System - The risk checks are performed in line and it is a pure software solution. The Lime Trading Gateway integrates quickly and easy through normalized and optimized C++, JAVA APIs or via FIX. Learn More About Lime's Risk Management Solutions.
• Automated Batch Locate Process
• Lime Smart Router
• Lime’s Benchmark Algorithms

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Sterling Trader

Sterling Trader Pro is a full-featured Level II trading platform designed for professionals who work with the rapidly moving electronic markets. The terminal includes advanced pinpoint accuracy for order routing and management and real-time profit/loss capabilities, making it particularly suitable for trading groups.

Key Sterling Trader Pro features:

• Advanced charting package
• Highly customizable level II order entry system
• Programmable keys and load order entry features for instantaneous action
• Window linking and customization
• Real time profit and loss information
• Advanced pinpoint accuracy and smart destination preferences for order routing and management
• Operates on Microsoft Windows and Intel technology for easy integration with in-house networks
• Full control over system components for fastest access to markets and exchanges
• API available for connection with custom and third-party applications

Advanced Options Trading

Livevol X Options Trading

Livevol X is the next-generation execution platform that combines the intelligence of Livevol Pro with advanced options trading capabilities and sophisticated risk analytics. LVX offers a full array of unique features for identifying trade opportunities and developing strategies. Our “what if” modeling tools provide the ability to go from modeling to execution in one key stroke.

Of course, monitoring risk is paramount. LVX keeps you on top of position and portfolio risk with industry leading graphical representations calculated in real time.

Lists of features within the software are listed below:

• Order Execution
• Risk, Position & Trade Analysis
• Brokerage Account Info
• Build and Save Layout
• Analytics with Historical Data
• Live Order Flow Information
• Option Market Scanners
• Option Analytics Components

Eze EMS (formerly RealTick) Pro and Express

Created by Townsend Analytics, Eze EMS is the platform used by professional traders. Eze EMS is suited to active traders, registered investment advisors (RIAs), and hedge funds. It delivers sophisticated trading tools, unrivaled access to liquidity, real-time data, charting, analytics and streaming news. Global, multi-broker, multi-asset—Eze EMS’s unsurpassed flexibility suits every trading style. Traders can make the most of their investment with some of the cheapest trading fees available.

Lightspeed offer two versions of Eze EMS to meet the needs of any trader.

Eze EMS (formerly RealTick) Pro

Full featured trading software for the professional trader

• Advanced order entry and trading with real-time global data
• Trade allocations and multi-account access for RIAs and hedge funds
• Multi-asset, trade equities, options and futures from one login
• Completely customizable user interface
• Hotkeys and hot buttons
• MarketMinder™ quote display, hundreds of available fields
• Advanced time and sales
• Sophisticated charting with studies
• Streaming news and fundamental research
• API and order scripting
• Hottrend stock scanner
• Custom tickers
• Mobile application options from tablet or smart phone
• $325 monthly software fee
• $25,000 minimum funding requirement

Eze EMS (formerly RealTick) Express

A value-oriented alternative to the full featured Pro version

• Customizable display of full market depth, time & sales, limited to 4 level 2 windows Conditional orders, Bracket Orders, OCO, and more
• Advanced charts and scanning tools. Watchlists with up to 100 symbols Hot-Key Order Entry
• $125 monthly software fee
• $25,000 minimum funding requirement
• Real-time global market data
• Integrated add-ons
• Backed by stable and resilient infrastructure

Specialized Stock and Option Trading Software

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