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X_Trader®

Platform of Choice for Professional Trader Coast to Coast and Around the Globe

License: $325/Month for access to all available exchanges*

Features

• Trade Electronic Futures, Options & Exchange-listed Spreads
• Simultaneously trade multiple markets from one fully customizable screen in real-time
• Direct fully redundant, high-speed connectivity to CME, CBOT, NYMEX, NYBOT, Eurex, Liffe, & ICE
• Patented MD Trader® vertical market depth display with static prices for accurate order placement
• Single Click order placement, execution &cancellation
• View working orders, fills, market depth, & charts from a single screen
• Average price highlighting to show at a glance were you are long/short from relative to the market
• Ability to link any TT-based market data directly to an Excel® spreadsheet
• Develop custom add-on applications/black box systems via XT_API
• Plug-In products are available at no charge

* Volume minimums apply. Clients of Brokers & IBs must meet certain criteria to be eligible.

Strategy Runner Lite

Strategy Runner Lite is an advanced online trading platform which offers the following features:

• Bracket for setting automated profit target and stop loss OCO orders — supports partial fills
• A library of Automated Exits such as:
  • Scale–outs – multiple profit targets
  • Trailing stops – customizable stop–loss auto–trailing
  • Break–even – move stop–loss to break–even
  • Reverse at stop and/or target
  • Indicator–based exits
• The ability to personalize Exits
• Parked, synthetic, market–on–close (MOC) & Smart orders
• Exits and synthetic orders (e.g. stop orders) are stored on the server, so computer and internet shutdowns don't affect order execution
• Real–time charts and indicators
• Real–time streaming quotes, composite position tracker, profit & loss display
• Visual confirmation of orders within charts
• Customizable audio confirmation of orders
• Risk control, including daily profit & loss limits and contract limits
• One–click trading from Market Depth for:
  • Order submission
  • Order modification
  • Order cancellation

Strategy Runner Pro

Strategy Runner Pro offers fully automated execution of trading systems with the following features:

• Hands–free trading with multiple strategies on multiple markets
• Robust, high–quality execution of trading strategies using the server–based solution
• Trade With gurus
• Execute trades in multiple accounts
• Real–time transparency of strategy performance
• Full control over strategy execution and the ability to modify or liquidate strategy
• Ease of diversification and re–balancing of the trading portfolio: add, delete, run, and stop systems
• Tick–by–tick accuracy of strategy execution
• Free simulation version
• All the features of the Strategy Runner Lite version
• Strategies run on remote servers, so computer and internet shutdowns don't affect strategy execution.

The Currenex platform now can accommodate retail clients in addition to the institutional users already familiar with the platform. This updated product is a margin-based environment that matches your orders directly with bank liquidity providers without dealer confirmation. This model was developed as a way of decreasing the potential conflict of interest that customers can encounter when dealing with other brokers or Forex Dealer Merchants (FDMs).

Traders utilizing Currenex will enjoy access to all of the following:

• 24-hour, liquid market
• Intuitive, flexible user interface, detachable, live snapshot of liquidity
• Trade Status Area—to view order placement and execution notification offers unprecedented visual access to the status of pending deals, done deals, and resting orders; gives users the ability to rapidly modify or cancel individual active orders, and complete partial fills
• Advanced Market Depth choices for ESP—Standard (set in preferences), Consolidated (aggregated price and amount available), and VWAP (volume weighted average price)
• Credit Limit button—displays the users credit limit(s) and how much has been used. The button itself will also change color to alert users as credit limits are approached or exceeded.
• User defined One-Click trading buttons
• Live update of average price, net position and all in rate of day's Spot trades (ESP, RFS, direct and Benchmark), copy and paste data into spreadsheets
• Enhanced Daily Spot Positions Tab now shows currency pairs by base and term amounts; average price of all Spot buys and sells (separately and by currency pair); net position (total long and short position by currency pair) and all in rate—the all in cost average for spot transactions, including realized and unrealized P/L in the Currenex trading day (17.00 EST to 17.00 EST).
• Excel-based spreadsheet trading allows the ability to have live streaming executable prices and make real-time automated trading decisions
• Access to prime broker network
• Fully integrated with other Currenex features including Enhanced Request for Streams (RFS) trading, allocations, rolls, amendments, drafts, templates, one-click trading user preferences, Crossmar/Misys Treasury systems etc
• Trade Templates and Drafts offer enhanced user customization—buy-side users can easily recall pre-defined fields for frequently repeated trades

BestDirect FX Express is an advanced online, retail forex trading platform. Exclusive to our traders is one of the most accurate price feed available in the industry. Below are advanced featured of BestDirect FX Express that are essential tools for traders:

Easy to use interface that has numerous views that can be mixed and matched to customize your perfect trading platform, including two Currency Pair Views, Streaming Tick Charts, Currency Pair Summary and Account Summary.

Super Rates

BestDirect FX Express's Super Rates show all 20 currency pairs in a separate window from the GTS Main Window. Super Rates have three different views and allow you to place trades just like the main window.

BestDirect FX Express Ticker

Save desktop space by using the BestDirect FX Express Ticker, which shows eight currency pairs that can be used to place trades and gives important account information and market news updates. This Ticker floats on top of any application so you can see important account information all the time.

Trading Alerts

BestDirect FX Express allows you to receive alerts via Email or SMS, upon execution of market trading levels or pending orders. Below is the Manage Order Execution Alert window, which allows you to customize the Pending Order Message and recipient Email/SMS address to which the alert is sent. You may set up to five alerts to assist your trading.

Pip and Margin Calculators

Use the Pip Calculator to see your profit/loss per a One-Pip Movement for different contract sizes. The Margin Calculator calculates the margin required to hold open positions in real time. These are two extremely useful tools to help manage your trades and risk.

FX Options has streaming, competitive options prices on more than 10 currency pairs. The most sophisticated and latest forex option trading capabilities are now on your desktop!

FX Options provide customers with ready access to real-time account information around the clock. Get the most up-to-date system improvements currently available anywhere, to stay ahead of the curve. You will have access to daily, monthly, and online multi-currency statements, with a detailed trading report, presented in an easy-to-read format.

Auto Execution in Options through FX Options:

• Instant executions on streaming prices for fixed expirations
• Automated requests for prices for any currency pair, for any date
• Trade both spot and options in a single account
• Delta-based margining for all accounts
• No double margins—combined margins for spot and options trading
• Choose from market or limit orders
• Risk management features that are absolutely state-of-the-art

Dealer execution, or automatic execution? You have the option!

• Fast, efficient, secure execution of trades conveniently placed from your PC
• Instant, direct access to dealers or back office staff whenever an immediate response is needed
• Around-the-clock account access to personal account information including updated account value value on a real-time basis

Take advantage of Precious Metals options—online!

• Unique, streaming trading in Spot Gold options for a wide variety of strikes
• Automated, quotes by request for multiple strikes, for any date in Spot Silver as well as Gold
• Netting of overall USD exposure in online statement—precious metals values are USD-based and, therefore, simple to understand for total portfolio management

The technologies of the BestDirect MetaTrader4 (MT4) trading platform aggregate prices from a number of liquidity providers and stream this to PFGBest.com clients. MT4 is highly configurable to work for a whole host of FX trading models. Deep liquidity and real-time pricing are key to the hundreds of brokers that leverage BestDirect MT4 trading systems. The single point of access to the multi-source liquidity, along with the aggregated pricing configurations, offer what MT4 creators call the purest form of forex trading. MT4 gives you the flexibility to configure your own trading system with your preferred execution model and risk management tools along with a customized desktop for the most efficient and comprehensive user experience.

Flexible Desktop

Create a customized forex platform view by combining the various trading models, quotes and account management windows into a view that works best for you. You can save as many workspaces as you want so that you can immediately load the platform view that you want. Saved profiles can be prompted for automatic loading when you call up the platform. Order Execution/Depth-of-Market (DOM) Panel

The trading panel of BestDirect MT4 provides fast, efficient access to primary forex trading functions in an active trading environment. The Order Execution panel also enables you to flatten positions, place market orders, and reverse positions for the product selected. MT4 was built with The Expert Advisor technology which frees you from constantly watching your screens, as Expert Advisor automatically analyses current market situations, opens and/or closes positions, and places/modifies/deletes orders.

Strategy Panel (DOM)

In addition to what the Order Execution Trading Panel offers, the Strategies Tester gives added functionality. You can test as many strategies as you want, and can save those strategies that you use repeatedly.

Navigator Window

All of the trading and account information you need is available from this single screen: Position Summary, Trade Panel, Account Status, Balances Summary, Order History. Trades can be entered from the Trade Panel, and will display as linked orders in the working orders panel.

Order Management

Order summary and position summary windows give you a quick, sortable overview of account information, including real-time P/L and order status. The order summary window lets you filter orders by currency pair and by order status. You can also open an Order Execution panel or trade window directly from the Charts window.

BestDirect 7.4 remains true to the original objective for BestDirect—a reliable online trading platform that is simple to use and features fast execution.

The BestDirect trading platform is one of the most user-friendly online order entry systems in the futures industry. It was built with the features that professional traders demand—ease of operation and risk control. Open an account online or sign up for a free BestTest Simulated Trading account to experience the Best online trading has to offer!

Ease of Operation

Rather than crowd your desktop with rarely used features, BestDirect was designed for easy placement of orders. The platform includes advanced features that were designed so that they don't get in the way of quick, efficient order entry.

Risk Control

The BestDirect platform was developed so that customer risk is determined before trades are executed. This is consistent with PFGBest.com's risk management policy and reduces broker and customer risk.

Reliability

BestDirect has built-in redundancy with communications links to major exchanges. The development team continuously refines BestDirect so that it has the most reliable communications, trading, and back office systems possible.

Commitment to Customer Service

Our customer service team has a strong blend of experience, professionalism, and technical skills to assist clients with questions about their accounts or the BestDirect platform. They will help get you started on BestDirect and will work with you until you are comfortable with all aspects of the trading platform.

Features of BestDirect 7.4 include all of the following:

• Multiple accounts on one screen
• Quote Window provides real-time quotes with bid/ask and option for multiple market viewing
• Depth-of-market and real-time streaming charts for select markets
• Real-time Account Status with streaming P/L
• Real-Time Price Ladder highlights the "last" in the center for ease of placing limit and stop orders
• Price Box features drop down prices
• Accepts Limit, GTC, Stop, Market and MIT orders
• Performance Summary gives you a statistical view of your trading day
• Quick Trade ticket streamlines trading one specific market at a time
• Use multiple Quick Trade tickets, if desired
• Join the Bid or Ask in one click
• Order Management section shows all your trades placed through BestDirect
• Working, filled, cancelled or rejected orders are color coded for easy viewing
• Refresh Function has updated positions and reporting information in the event your internet connection is ever lost

Regardless of your trading style, BestDirect 8 gives you an effective platform for futures and forex trading. The depth-of-market (DOM) trading panels offer a dynamic way to view the market and place trades, including advanced order entry, such as trailing stops and profit targets. The Trade Window gives a complete view of account information and an intuitive order entry ticket with OCO orders, while the flexible workspace lets you mix and match the platform views that you want.

Features of BestDirect 8 include all of the following:

• Trailing stops and profit targets
• OCO orders
• Depth of Market Trading Panel
• Trade window with complete positions summary, trade panel, order history, and real-time account status
• Strategy window
• Immediate access to your existing trading account or demo account
• Sortable order management panels that can be filtered by product or by order status
• Flexible workspace that lets you build the trading environment you are most comfortable using

BestDirect Navigator provides a front-end platform that is built on the advanced charting and analysis capabilities of the Genesis Navigator program.

Features of BestDirect Navigator include all of the following:

• Advanced charting functionality with extensive technical studies
• Advanced order entry
• Chart-based trading
• DOM style order ticket
• Tick Data
• Custom filtering
• Automated systems trading
• Long-term data history
• Real-time quotes and charting
• Woodies CCI Indicators

As an active discretionary trader or system trader, the trading tools you select will have a dramatic impact on your success.

Whether you trade futures, forex or equities, you can significantly enhance your trading efficiency through NinjaTrader's powerful array of analytic tools, innovative trade management features and industry proven order execution capabilities. In addition, NinjaTrader provides a complete end-to-end platform for strategy creation, testing and automation. Please read below about the many powerful NinjaTrader features and how it can enhance your ability to effectively trade the markets.

Created by active traders, BestDirect ProTrader is a powerful trading platform that is robust yet also easy to use! This advanced Futures, Options and Forex trading platform integrates portfolio management, risk analysis tools, real-time charts and quotes, with automated strategy trading in a responsive and intuitive user interface.

This platform was designed for the advanced trader to design and personalize every facet of his trading environment. Advanced Customization features include all of the following:

• Trading Screens: trade directly from the personalized SuperDOM or directly off the Charts with single-click trading.
• Advanced Strategy tools: BestDirect ProTrader embodies some of the most advanced strategy design tools available in the industry today
• Powerful Charts and Indicators: customize your work station with one of the most robust selections of technical indicators and personalized charts.
• Single-click trading from charts—applies to strategies as well!
• Advanced Portfolio Reporting: comprehensive reports allow you to track your portfolio in real time so you always know your intraday profits and losses!
• Real-time streaming quotes: trade directly from the Quote Window!

Advanced automation tools include all of the following:

• Single-click actions: powerful built-in feature that allow you to execute your complex strategies or automated systems with single-click actions from either Charts or SuperDOM
• Single-Entry Multi-Exit (SEME): complex order strategies are easy with ProTrader's SEME. No programming required!
• Manage trending and strategies: advanced Trend Trader Market Trader, Hi-Lo Trader, and System Tracker tools let you manage your automated strategies

BestDirect Web is a web-based trading application that is available to all customers. This application can be used with any trading or demo account.

Fully integrated futures and forex trading are now available with eSignal for BestDirect. This full integration lets you access and trade your futures and forex account from within eSignal. This gives you the best of both worlds—robust order-routing and account management of futures and forex, real–time account management, and eSignal's advanced analytics and charting in one application.

• Direct exchange connections through the BestDirect order routing system
• Two data sources in one application—eSignal and PFGBest.com
• Advanced charting and analytics of eSignal
• Exchange data fees waived for U.S. electronic futures markets

The newest version of eSignal provides Trade Manager and Account Manager windows that are connected to your PFGBest.com account. These windows link to eSignal quote boards, charts, and other windows. With this functionality, orders placed in the Trade Manager window are routed to exchange servers through PFGBest.com's direct exchange connections.

eSignal for BestDirect is limited to CME Group (including Nymex and Comex electronic products), ICE, and spot foreign exchange products from PFGBest.com.

BestDirect Options Navigator, the Premium Charting and trading platform, now incorporates a robust options platform: Options Navigator. Considered one of the best analytical platforms for Futures, Genesis' has put the same power into developing Options Navigator.

Features of BestDirect Options Navigator include all of the following:

• Option Chain with point and click order entry
• Customizable columns in the options chain
• A portfolio section allows you to manage your trades your way
• Strategy section allows you to load prebuilt spreads
• Analyze risk of a position in regards to changes in: price, volatility, and the Greeks
• Volatility history is available to help you employ option strategies
• Outlook helps you find a strategy that best fits you set of price and volatility assumptions
• A probability calculator is another tool to help understand your chances of success

Try BESTDirect Mobile with a Free Simulated Trading Account

• Trade futures and forex on the go
• Get real-time prices from your personalized watchlist
• Check current positions, pending orders, and account balances
• Access chains, charts, and market news and much more