Active Tick Active Tick is a low cost high frequency trading platform that offers

-Ability to trade stocks, options, and currencies.

-Multiple broker accounts

-Paper Trading

-Automated Strategy Trading

-Back Testing through 30 years of historical data.

As well as,

Active Tick Streaming Quotes:

• Spreadsheet style quote lists
• Custom quote views
• Refreshing Heatmaps
• Realtime Ticker Tape (Time & sales screens)
• Use of Excel spreadsheets

Active Tick Advanced Charting Features:

• 50 available trading technical indicators like Moving averages, volume etc
• The ability to program custom indicators
• Tick and variable intraday time intervals
• Active Tick Trading Integration

This high frequency trading software allows you to integrate your trading platform with your broker (or multiple ones as the case may be.

Acuity Workstation by Top Gun Software

Top Gun Software is a market charting and scanning based software capable of the following scans

• Volume scans, like finding stocks at highs and lows that are over double their volume.
• Breakout Scans that alert you when a stock breaks out of yesterdays high or low price or other technical factors
• Volatility Scans that scan for certain changes in volatility
• Gap Scans that find places where stocks have

This type of software is used to help you find profitable high frequency trading opportunities in the market.

Adaptive Modeler

This is a software program that helps you forecast and develop price fluctuations of real world stocks and securities. Their software evolves incrementally while processing the data in an attempt to quantify the change in previous data in order to make predictions about the future.

Active Modeler features include

• Drag and drop interface,
• Real Time charting, model creation and visualization
• Quoting intervals of 1 millisecond to multiple days
• A Trading Simulator
• Risk Return Analysis
• Data Export, and more.

The biggest advantage of Active Modelers trading software is that the software is adaptive and not static, allowing for a more accurate view of a high frequency trading strategys profitability

Advanced Get

Advanced Get is a market scanning software run by the same people who brought you Esignal. It offers the following features:

• Advanced GET Proprietary Indicators
• Auto Gann
• Auto Trend Channels
• Bias Reversal
• Elliott Oscillator
• Elliott Trigger
• Elliott Waves
• Ellipse
• eXpert Trend Locator (XTL)
• False Bar Stochastic
• Gann Angles
• Gann Box
• Joseph Trend Index (JTI)
• Make-or-Break (MOB)
• Moving Average
• Optimized Parabolic SAR
• Profit-Taking Index (PTI)
• Price Clusters
• Smart Pivots
• Time and Price Squares
• Time Clusters
• TJs Web
• Trade Profile

High Frequency Trading Scanner

The scanner lets you search through U.S markets and the FTSE in real time.

Elliot Wave Analysis. Using current and historical data for accurate wave movements

Gann Theory Based Ellipses that allow you to remove some of the complexity of Gann Theory

A Trend Locator to help filter out random market movements

A False bar stochastic that lets you know if the overbought or oversold conditions are questionable

Fibonacci tools to help you trade within the golden ratio

Pivot Points that help you identify volatility and reversal points in the market.

Regression trend channels to help you enter the market more objectively

AIQ Trading Expert Pro

AIQ Trading Expert Pro is a high frequency trading software designed to be a complete platform for active traders.

The Softwares main features are:

• Strategy development and testing with a portfolio simulator
• Real time Alerts over multiple time frames that can also be sent to your email
• Trading Barometers and real time data storage for back testing.

Algotrader by algo-trader

Algotrader is an automated trading system (ATS) designed for markets available through Interactive Brokers (IB) or FIX. It help you automate all aspects of trading like collecting data, analyzing price. making trade decisions, and order execution.

Algotraders main features are:

• The ability to automate trading strategies
• Automated execution though brokers
• The ability to run market simulations in parallel and back test historical data
• Portfolio tracking and performance analysis
• Access to statistical libraries

It is an open source project which has advantages and disadvantages in itself.

Alpha Trade

Alpha trade makes high frequency trading software named “E-Gate” and “E-Trax”. They specialize in affordable real time and mobile stock quotes, as well as charting software and financial content.

AmiBroker

AmiBroker high frequency trading software is known for its high speed (able to back test 10 years is less than 1 second) and feature rich platform.

The main features of amibroker are:

• Back testing for multiple time frames, symbols, and strategies at very high speeds.
• Detailed Charting applications that allow for symbol linking, interval linking, zoom and more.
• Real Time alerts, quotes, time and sales, and more

Programming features that include automatic formula creation.

AmiBroker appears to be attempting to take on esignals dominance in the field of high frequency trading software.

Aspen Graphics

Aspen Graphics is a charting software for trading equities, options, bonds, Forex, and mutual funds. They do have products that are powered by Bloomberg market data as well.

ATRADER

ATRADER is an Advanced Charting, Profiling, and Algorithmic Trading Software for Stocks/Futures/Bonds/Forex.

The software supports interactive Brokers, Transact, Zenfire and DTN data feeds.

AutoScalper

AutoScalper trades stocks, futures, and forex products though interactive brokers. It works by scalping fluctuations in price action through automation.

Best Direct Trading.

Best Direct Trading Software allows you to trade Futures, Forex, and Options. Run by peregrine falcon group, Best Direct offers OCO orders, trailing stops and profit targets, and other common trading tools for basic set ups. Their focus is fast, simple and reliable.

Bracket Trader

Bracket Trader high frequency trading software uses an application programming interface (API) that interacts with IB (Interactive Brokers). It works with OCA orders (one cancels the other) so that your orders create a “Bracket” around a profitable range.

Button Trader

Button Trader works with Interactive Brokers and works best for high frequency day traders, swing traders, in stocks, options, futures, and forex accounts. It has a recorder and real time simulator for paper trading, so you can try out their system in the off market hours.

Charts Access

Chartsaccess is a service that allows you to access metatrader charts from your mobile phone or web browser

Cool Trade

Cool trade is a stock market screener/scanner that allows you to search through NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX stocks for trading opportunities. The trading software allows you to run real time simulations to test your strategies with real data.

CQG/NET

CQG high frequency trading software integrates trading tools, global market data, advanced analytics, API, and Historical data. Their integrated client platform offers advanced order executions combined with charting and quoting tools.

The main features of the system are:

• Two depth-of-market order book views
• Charts with trade routing interfaces
• Spreadsheet trading that incorporates over 200 market data elements
• Condition Alerts
• Pre-trade risk management analysis
• Hosted Exchange Gateways for secure low-latency order routing
• The CQG quoting and charting features include:
• Real time and historical market information from over 100 global sources
• Sixteen different charting styles
• 100+ basic and custom studies
• A Custom formula creator
• Six types of alerts and multiple scans
• Advanced back testing features
• Advanced option strategy analytics
• Six news sources, including Dow Jones News wires

CQG is considered one of the leaders in the industry comprised of high frequency trading software companies.

DasTrader – Direct Access Software

DAS designs software to work with high frequency traders by providing online brokerage solutions like direct access trading applications, browser-based trading, stock market data feeds, and API execution services.

They do offer a simulation software if you want to try out their products.

Their products include:

DasPro – A high frequency trading platform for basket trading, charting, and multi account management. The software offers fast executions, trailing stops and targets, along with advanced charting software.

The Das Web is the advanced browser-based platform for equities, options, and futures trading, and the The iDas is the web mobile version.

DTN.IQ by DTN

DTN.IQ is a real time news and live quote streaming service. They main focus is provide quotation data directly from the exchanges. They currently offer the following market quotes in live stream:

Stocks and options – (from N YSE, Nasdaq, AMEX, Canadian exchanges etc) as well as futures, futures options and spreads from The CBOT, CME, NYMEX, COMEX, NYBOT, KCBT, WPG, MGE, LIFFE, LME, IPE and SGX exchanges, and European Futures.

They also offer charting alerts, and scrolling news software for highly active traders.

DTN ProphetX by Televent DTN

Televent DTN provides trading tools and information to commodity traders, energy traders, and active traders that include analytical software, data feeds, and streaming quotes.

NanoTrader by Fibertec

NanoTader high frequency trading software is an attempt to combine automated trading with charting. This way, the user will not need to know how to program trading strategies with computer language, but instead, use their mouse and charting software to automate their orders.

E-futures

E-Futures day trading software provides streaming quotes, market depth windows, and charting. They specialize in the Eminis.

Able Trend

Able trend is a stand alone high frequency trading platform that features 100% mechanical and automation, advanced charting and indicators, and intraday auto scanning capabilities. They also have a software version that integrates with trade station.

ELWAVE

This software creates trading analysis around the theory of Elliot wave. It automatically creates Elliot Wave analysis with clear reports from its bullish and bearish scanning capabilities. It supports real time data from NinjaTrader

Ensign Windows by Ensign Software

Ensign has been in the business since 1981 and has grown in size to accept live data from DTN, FXCM (FREE), Infinity Futures, TradePortal Futures, DTN Satellite, TraderBytes.com, TransAct Futures, IQFeed, BarChart.com, Apex Futures, and eSignal, and Interactive Brokers.

They provide a free forex data feed and a proprietary play back feature that allows you to hone your trading skill with real market data.

eSignal by Interactive Data Corp

eSignal is one of the most popular choices of high frequency trading software among day traders. It has a profusion of levels and complexities of their software that range from easy to use, to complex analysis.

eSignals most dominant advantages are:

• Global market quotes for stocks, futures, options, minis, and forex across expansive market exchanges
• Real time market scanners with charting integration for ease of use
• Advanced charting that allows you to create your own indicators
• Back testing that ranges in complexity from an easy to use wizard, to in depth trading automation and executions.

eSignal also has add on services like streaming news and advanced GET.

Forex Toolkit. By Brinkster.net

The Forex Toolkit is a standalone program that aids traders in learning 16 strategies and helps them calculate risk and reward to increase profitability.

FXAccuCharts

An advanced charting package for forex traders offering alerts, and emerging indicators.

Global Tec

Global Tec Software attempts to give you up to date stock analysis based upon technical indicators. Their products include high frequency software like Wizetrade, CommandTRADE, Wizetrade for Options, and 4X Made Easy.

The purpose of their software is probably to get inchoate traders over the learning curve of Technical Analysis, which it does. However removing this learning opportunity may actually hurt the traders profitability in the long run. As well, new traders may come to the conclusion that they can make money doing what the software says, which is not what the software does.

Trendsetter

Hydra trade – by First New York solutions.

Their active trading platform comes with configurable trading tools, mini basket functionality and the ability to trade in multiple account.

Instaquote by Direct Access Financial

Instaquote high frequency trading software is BofA Merrill Lynchs execution management system for stocks, futures, and options trading. It integrates direct market access (DMA) algos, alternative trading systems, dark pools and other broker dealers to allow you the best choice of execution for your orders.

Their latest generation of algorithms adapt to market conditions in “Real-Time”

Interpreta by Tradermade International.

The Maverick Platform gives day traders a combination data feeds, charting, news & analysis, market alerts and proprietary commentary. It is also capable of being accessed by your mobile device.

Investor RT by Linn Software

This software features advanced charting and market analytics including a volume breakdown indicator, volume profiling indicators, and range/change/volume bars.

IQChart by InfoSpace –

An easy to use charting software that includes real time quotes, stock option and e mini futures data, stock scanning, portfolio tracking and technical indicators.

Kwik*Pop

A high frequency trading software that point out key turning points in the market. Their indicators are linked to volume and price momentum and their system can be set up through automated black box trading. They currently support NinjaTrader, TradeStation, Sierra Charts, eSignal, and MultiCharts.

Laser by Genesis Securities LLC

Laser is popular among day traders for its high reliability and speed for point to point connections to ECNs, NASDAQ, and NYSE trading.

It has customizable layouts with:

• Multipage overlap,
• Comprehensive market depth quotes (level II),
• Time and sales prints, and
• Tick a minute charts (although charting is not its strongest feature).

Laser also comes with customizable keystroke commands which is a big advantage for any high frequency trading software.

LiveScan

LiveScan is a scanning software that lets you peruse the market for the following conditions:

• New High
• New Low
• New 52High
• New 52Low
• Double Avg. Vol.
• Avg. Vol. 11:00AM
• Avg. Vol. 1:00PM
• New 3 day High
• New 3 day Low
• New 5 day High
• New 5 day Low
• New 60 day High
• New 60 day Low
• Over 20-Day MA
• Over 50-Day MA
• Over 200-Day MA
• Net Positive
• Net Negative
• Vol. > 3 Day Avg.
• Vol. > 5 Day Avg.
• Global Parameters

It allows you to set customizable filters for minimum and maximum prices, volume, and percentage change.

MadScan

MadScan offers real time signal and list scanners for the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX. Their products come in multiple features and levels starting from a free version up to Elite and Custom.