ApexFutures.com
111 W Jackson BL, #2010
Chicago, IL60604
Phone: 800-634-9466 

Product: Infinity AT (ActiveTrader) is a streamlined and customizable electronic futures trading platform, built to the rigorous standards of active scalpers, day traders, inter-market spreaders, arbitrage and position traders.

Requirements: Current computer standards provide enough power to run this software. It runs on Windows XP or Windows 7, but with a bit of tweaking it will run just as well on a Mac (Contact the company to get these instructions.). It operates best on DSL, cable modem, or high-bandwidth satellite. Wireless Internet not recommended.

Price:   Provided free of charge, Infinity AT comes with a free data feed.

Product Overview

Trading futures is somewhat complex relative to trading equities, but one thing that reduces the complexity, as well as enhances the odds of success is a solid trading platform that provides virtually all of the tools one needs to trade. ApexFutures now offers a multi-faceted trading platform. Infinity AT is well designed, efficient, packed with tools, and it is “easy on the mind,” meaning the interface does not mess up the functionality. Out of the box, so to speak, one view provides easy access to all the necessary trading information. Then again, maybe you are not an “out of the box” trader. The good news for you is that platform is easily customizable, so you can make it be whatever you need it to be.

Designed for the nimble trader, the streamlined platform delivers timely data and rapid, order-execution. The “Trading Ladder” or DOM feature is particularly helpful. Everything a trader needs is right there in a vertical format, logically laid out, and easy to see and to utilize. As well, another window allows traders to track profit and loss (P&L) easily, this feature provides for tracking P&L for individual trades, individual markets, or tracking cumulative P&L for all trades made. A number of other key features take this platform to a high level, providing functionality not seen in some other trading platforms. 

Key Features

• Quick-Click Trading gives you the option of entering your orders at the click of a mouse. Configure Infinity AT to enter market, limit, stop, or stop limit orders, assign restrictions, set stop and limit prices, click and drag working orders, etc. This feature is easily customized.
• Depth of Market (Level II DOM) provides real-time streaming exchange prices through its trading ladder. Infinity AT shows bids, offers, and volumes up to 10 ticks deep.
• Drag & Drop Order Management is easily accessible. Working limit, stop, bracket and trailing stop orders are visible on the Trading Ladder. These orders are modifiable simply by dragging and dropping the orders with your mouse.
• Brackets, Trailing Stops and OCO's are available and easily accessed. Infinity AT provides both simple brackets and multiple brackets (up to 3 multiple targets). In addition, traders can add or initiate trades with trailing stops.
• Integrated Charting, a built-in feature, allowstraders access to advance studies and customization features, which can substantially lower your charting cost.
• Multiple Book View allows traders to view multiple market books simultaneously and even trade in a simulated or live mode at the same time.
• Flatten Feature is one of the “cool” features of the platform. It provides traders with a single-button click on the Trading Ladder to cancel working orders and flatten their position.
• Auto Reverse allows traders to reverse their open position with a single click of the mouse.
• Easy to Use & Fully Customizable User Interface allowstraders to customize everything from mouse button action to the layout and color schemes of the Infinity AT platform.

Pros

• Designed well
• Packed with rich features
• Does not require much to operate smoothly
• Easily customizable (access to custom API also available)
• Comes with a very fast data feed
• The platform is free
• Compatible with 6 different charting packages

Cons

• Still looking … found one … What is taking so long (See below)?
• Free proprietary charting coming in First Quarter 2010

Conclusion

A free trading platform with a free data feed, feature rich, customizable, robust, efficient, and “lightweight” is exactly what any trader would ask for, if you were to ask any trader what he or she wants in a trading platform. Well, they might want one other feature, which ApexFutures provides, and that is low-cost commission trading. I guess, when you get right down to it, the state-of-the-art futures trading platform is now accessible to just about anyone. It’s about time.

Note: ApexFutures.com is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA) and registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an independent introducing broker and has been a leader in providing online futures brokerage services to clients worldwide for over 14 years.