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X_TRADER® by Trading Technologies

The X_TRADER platform has always given professional derivatives traders the edge with superior speed, stability and accuracy. Now X_TRADER 7 delivers even more speed, more exchange connections and more powerful tools to further optimize your trading performance.

  • Faster than ever: Significant speed enhancements make this generation of X_TRADER even faster than before. Price updates are more rapid and more granular, automated tools react more quickly and order entry time is shorter. X_TRADER 7 also provides much faster fill downloads to improve speed and scalability for large multi-trader sites.

  • New exchange connections: X_TRADER 7 gives you access to more exchanges and more products, including new additions BrokerTec and Sydney Futures Exchange to the already comprehensive global list of exchange markets, with more to come.

  • More order types: X_TRADER 7 supports multiple order types, including Stop Markets and Stop Limits with trigger quantities, timed orders, Market on Open (MOO), Market if Touched (MIT), Limit if Touched (LIT), Trailing Stops (TSL/TMS) and OCOs.

  • More powerful tools: X_TRADER 7 provides integrated charting with X_STUDY™. Major enhancements to MD Trader®, include the ability to configure trade windows globally, faster quantity adjustments, Excel®-driven default quantities and "Laser lines", and exchange accurate volume at price. X_TRADER 7 also provides the ability to convert Treasury prices to yield and view Position in Queue (PIQ) on working orders. Autospreader additions include the ability to freeze and unfreeze working orders, adjust payup ticks on the fly, create ratio spreads and display spread prices in fractions and yield. X_TRADER 7 also includes new tools such as an innovative Quote Board, a new Floating Order Book and automated start of day functionality to carry positions within X_TRADER

X_TRADER® 7 incorporates the standard features that X_TRADER has become known for:

  • Simultaneously trade multiple products and multiple markets from one fully-customizable screen in real time. Single-window access to view working orders, fills and market depth, then open multiple trade windows for side-by-side trading. See how order flow in cross markets affects the market flow where you are trading.
  • Patented vertical market depth display allows immediate reaction to market changes. Follow the market with TT's static price display and global re-centering of Market Depth trade window so the action is always in front of you.
  • Support for market orders, limit orders, multiple contract orders, calendar spreads and interproduct spreads plus specialized order contingencies such as GTC, FOK, IOC and Stops.
  • Real-time fill and position details with easy access and dynamic audit trail. See your position, your average price, See average price highlighting to show at a glance whether open positions are profitable relative to market conditions.
  • Single-click trade execution and order cancellation. Order Management, one-click order entry/cancel, multiple order types, link orders as OCOs, place orders as Trailing Stops, change order amount/level, and view estimated Position In Queue (PIQ).
  • Market Analytics, view depth of market (DOM), view implied price/volume, view volume at price, see the inside market, see last trade price and trade level volume. You can also see volume by price, last trade size, market depth, see your current position and average price, drag and drop orders to change price level, and display prices as net change or in yield.
  • Fully-customizable desktop to match personal trading styles and preferences. X_TRADER 7 supports customizable layouts so you may design your own order entry template. You can define order-entry amount keys, select favorite order-entry types, use right-click/left-click control, scroll the market grid with wheel on mouse, and keep the market centered or allow it to float from top to bottom of grid.
  • Excel® spreadsheet and analytics compatibility, link to Excel® to highlight key levels. X_TRADER can also be used as an extension to Excel® where live algorithms can adjust your key market levels and graphically show these prices in X_TRADER.
  • Trade Multiple accounts, and take advantage of Market Maker functionality to make two-sided markets on any instrument.
  • High-speed connections to all of the leading derivatives exchanges across the world. Anytime, Anywhere.
Innovative technology to meet the demands of the most aggressive traders is combined with ease of use and safety features, which enables you to get up and trading in a matter of moments. TT offers an ever-expanding list of asset classes to trade with the most popular front end in the marketplace.