Futures Trading Platforms and Software

Pricing: FREE

Datafeed: CQG

TradingView is an advanced financial visualization platform with the ease of use of a modern website. Whether you are looking at basic price charts or plotting complex spread symbols with overlayed ratios, TradingView has the tools and data you need. Access to latest market news, favorite charts and chat with other members wherever you are.

Pricing: $79.99/Mo

Datafeed: N/A

Run your trading strategies 24/7 with ultra-low latency connections to CME Group exchanges. Compatible with Optimus Flow, Sierra Chart, MultiCharts, and more. Purpose-built infrastructure for serious futures traders.

Pricing: From $69/Mo (billed annually)

Datafeed: Rithmic

DeepCharts is a Windows desktop order flow and footprint chart platform built for professional futures traders. Featuring Deep Prints, Deep Trades, Volume Profile, DOM, and tick-for-tick replay, all powered by Rithmic MBO data.

Pricing: $107/Mo

Datafeed: Certigo

TrendSpider is a platform that helps you plan your trade, and trade your plan like a pro. It is one of the most comprehensive technical analysis software on the market, with a fully customizable automation engine on a charting platform with custom alerts. Optimus Futures customers get FREE Access to TrendSpider.

Pricing: $775/Mo

Datafeed: TT

TT offers a streamlined, go-anywhere trading experience for professional traders. Whether you are on your desktop, laptop or mobile device, TT works for you wherever you go with advanced tools to keep your eye on the market. View real-time and historical market data and trade with the click of your mouse or automate your trading strategy and deploy your algo to servers throughout their global network of collocated data centers for superior execution. It’s built on an all-new scalable open architecture that enables both TT and end users to innovate and respond to changing market and customer needs with unprecedented speed and efficiency.

Pricing: FREE

Datafeed: GAIN Futures

MetaTrader 5 is an all-in-one FREE platform for trading futures via any smartphone device, browser or operating system: Windows, Mac and Linux. The platform offers a powerful arsenal of tools available with a click of the mouse. Get access to a flexible trading system with technical and fundamental analysis, Market Depth and the support of all types of trading orders and execution modes.

Pricing: FREE*

Datafeed: Firetip

Firetip is a full featured professional-grade trading platform. Designed for traders that demand reliability and high performance, Firetip incorporates the features you need to better facilitate your trading. Firetip is designed to be an intuitive, easy to learn trading platform with direct market access, charting, news, account details and statements all at your fingertips.

Pricing: $99/Mo

Datafeed: Rithmic, CQG, GAIN Futures

MultiCharts’ is based on building robust trading strategies, accurate market data with minimal delivery time, order execution within milliseconds, and lower-than-average transaction fees. With tools such as high-definition charting, technical indicators, backtesting, and strategy execution, everything you need is at your fingertips.

Pricing: $97/Mo

Datafeed: CQG

MultiCharts .NET combines best features of MultiCharts with robust potential of the .NET framework. Engineered specifically for programmers, users can create strategies and indicators in C# and VB.NET. Watch a short intro video to get an overview of the .NET Editor and tight integration we created with Visual Studio. Remember, you can choose between 32 and 64-bit versions for the one that suits your needs best.

Pricing: $26/Mo

Datafeed: Teton

Sierra Charts is a complete and professional trading platform supporting manual trading, automated trading, simulated trading and powerful and highly customizable charting. We provide historical and forex market data, and support many external Data and Trading services as well that provide futures, stock, index, forex and all types of market data from exchanges around the world.

Pricing: $25/Mo

Datafeed: Rithmic

R-Trader is well suited for the trader who wants quick execution on the Chicago electronic markets. (N.Y. markets soon to follow) Traders have the ability to trade futures and options from a price ladder or an order ticket. R-Trader also offers option chains, prebuilt strategies for futures and options plus streaming real-time quotes.

Pricing: 69€ / Mo

Datafeed: Rithmic. CQG, CTS, Gain (GAIN Futures)

ATAS is a professional futures trading platform designed for order flow analysis. The platform is used by proprietary trading companies and professional traders throughout the world. Optimus Futures seamless integration with ATAS can deliver streaming real time quotes and historical market data direct from the exchanges.

Pricing: FREE

Datafeed: CQG

The new web-based technology doesn’t require software to download so it’s easier than ever to access the markets. Popular features have been built into StoneX Futures, making it an easy switch from another platform for customers looking to take advantage of charts and better graphics, including heat maps, account monitors, and more.

Pricing: $99/Mo*

Datafeed: Rithmic, CQG, TT, GAIN Futures

Bookmap is an Order Book visualization platform that takes “real-time” order flow information and presents it in an easy to consume picture or “Heat Map”. Traders are able to get their “feel” back by visually seeing the live auction process. A visual historical depth-of-market (DOM) data provides a unique perspective that enables discretionary traders to get faster and deeper insight into live market dynamics to anticipate short-term price action.

Pricing: $579

Datafeed: Rithmic, CQG, GAIN Futures

Designed specifically for futures day traders, the daytradr platform is a robust stand-alone multi-threaded trading platform that connects to CQG, Rithmic, GAIN Futures (OEC) and IQFeed. daytradr contains all the features from the popular plug-in from Jigsaw (used by over 4,500 traders) and much more, to give you an edge in the markets.

Pricing: $25/Mo

Datafeed: CQG

CQG M is now CQG Desktop. CQG Desktop is the next generation of trading and data visualization from the original data and analytics experts you've trusted for more than 30 years. CQG Desktop offerstrading, market data, charting, and analytics all in one easy-to-use product that can be customized to meet your trading needs. The new web-based technology doesn't require any software to download so it's easier than ever to access the markets with CQG.

Pricing: $100/Mo*

Datafeed: CQG

CQG QTrader offers powerful trading tools and technical analysis features to trade and monitor the markets. It combines advanced analytics, charts, and multiple trade execution interfaces in one comprehensive solution for professional traders.

Pricing: $104/Mo

Datafeed: Rithmic, CQG, GAIN Futures

Trade Navigator provides a variety of customizable charting and technical analytical features for traders of different levels. Using both the customizable charts and ladders allows traders to track trades and strategies both graphically and statistically at the same time.

Pricing: $25/Mo

Datafeed: CTS

T4 available from Cunningham Trading Systems ('CTS-T4') offers real-time quotes, one-click trading, multiple order types, a built in charting package, real-time news and economic indicator feeds, and much more to traders. Full functionality and customization allow all users to create a trading screen that fits their own trading style.

Pricing: $29/Mo

Datafeed: Rithmic, CQG

MotiveWave Software is a well-established developer of easy-to-use full-featured charting, analysis and trading software built for the individual trader.