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Trading Platform Intro

It is critical to have the right trading platform to trade on the stock, futures, forex, and other financial markets. The right stock trading platform can give you an edge in today’s competitive markets.


Trading platform that is right for you

MultiCharts’ advantage is based on building robust 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.

You can easily and quickly develop and test a strategy before you invest real money. You can test it on historical data as if you were doing market replay. You can make sure that your strategy is not a result of optimized curve fitting—your strategy actually provides a fundamental advantage. Here is extra information on strategy backtesting.

You can choose the quickest or most economical data feed depending on what you are trying to achieve. Professionals have the option to use Bloomberg as the data feed of choice, while beginner traders can choose Barchart as an economical data feed with good quality data. Traders who do high-frequency trading can access Zen-Fire, which provides some of the fastest, real-time quotes. Click on the link to see all of the supported data feeds.

A choice of trading gateways gives the option to choose from brokers with a high speed of order filling, low price, functional advantages, or good customer service. For example, you can fill complex algorithmic orders with Interactive Brokers or enjoy excellent customer service with FXCM. Follow the link to see the entire list of supported brokers.

Why choose our trading platform?

MultiCharts’ strength is in its features, flexibility, and commitment to following industry programming standards. MultiCharts provides all the necessary features you may need in a trading platform.

Our features allow you to create sophisticated strategies for your trading. Our flexibility allows you to choose the optimal data vendors and execution gateways. MultiCharts is also compatible with the industry-standard EasyLanguage developed by TradeStation.

MultiCharts provides nearly 100% EasyLanguage compatibility. This means that thousands of existing studies in this language will work without any changes—the same way they work in TradeStation. You can make full use of the 20+ years of trading experience shared in the EasyLanguage community. Since TradeStation was a pioneer in the world of strategy trading, it would be unwise to ignore thousands of existing technical analysis studies already written.

With MultiCharts you do not need to reinvent the wheel or learn a whole new language—you can simply find most information on the Internet. For example, let’s say you want to pass information from MultiCharts to Excel and from Excel to MultiCharts. The answer is—it’s already been done for you. To sum it up, with MultiCharts you automatically get access to a wealth of resources, and you can focus on creating something new—as opposed to spending time on translation into yet another language.