The platform offers extensive customization and powerful functionality for traders of all levels. Users can insert custom titles, blank rows, and free text, as well as build synthetic or arithmetic spreads and apply formulas using functions like SUM and INT. Display settings such as colors and font sizes are fully adjustable, allowing for a personalized experience. Instrument details are easily accessible, and live quote links can be integrated with Excel via RTD or DDE. Right-click functionality provides quick access to charts, options, DOM, price ladders, or trade tickets, while toggling between trading and selection modes adds flexibility. Users can set alarms based on price, volume, trade size, or time conditions, and configure alerts to notify them when price limits are reached. Order entry is streamlined with features like contingency orders and the Spread Legger™, and default account and quantity settings can be overridden. Optional Buy/Sell buttons with hover-activated price selectors, bid/ask estimation, and the robust Strategy Builder round out the toolset, making this platform ideal for both strategic planning and active execution.

The platform provides a highly intuitive and flexible interface for options trading. It displays the underlying futures contract alongside all available strike prices in a vertical layout, with both call and put options arranged horizontally. Users can choose between two display formats — placing calls and puts side by side or stacking them above and below each other. The system supports multiple contracts and chains simultaneously, making it ideal for managing complex portfolios. Traders can fully customize the interface, including column configuration (fixed or scrollable), color themes, font sizes, and various display properties. A wide range of options pricing models is supported, including Black-Scholes, Black ’76, Binomial, Trinomi

al, Bjerksund-Stensland 02, Barone-Adesi Whaley, and Bachelier (Normal), giving users precision and flexibility in modeling theoretical values and implied volatility.

Advanced analytical tools enhance decision-making, with real-time calculation and display of the “Greeks,” and an options calculator that allows for detailed custom computations. The platform also includes robust support for options charting, volatility skew analysis, and integrated charts for volatility and key Greek values. Users can toggle between trading and selection modes, and view the monetary values of calls, puts, and straddles. Additional features include instrument detail access, printable options pages, and the ability to place orders directly by clicking on the bid, ask, or last price. What-if simulations and the integrated Strategy Builder further extend functionality, empowering traders to analyze, plan, and execute complex options strategies with ease.

The platform is highly customizable, allowing users to choose which columns to display, adjust color schemes, font sizes, and various display properties for a tailored trading experience. It features real-time streaming of the last tick, live updates of position data, average price, and profit/loss, as well as the ability to toggle between implied, outright, or combined data views. Users can also display cumulative bid/ask columns and highlight combined sizes with implied components. Order entry is flexible, with options to show or hide profit/loss, active orders, the cancel button, and price selectors on mouse-over. Traders can also override default settings for order quantity, duration, and account when placing trades.

The platform provides a comprehensive view of all your orders and positions, grouped by net positions for easier tracking and management. It includes robust filtering options, allowing you to expand or collapse net positions, and selectively display fills from today, start-of-day positions, open and closed trades, as well as various order statuses such as working, rejected, canceled, replaced, suspended, or expired. Sorting options are available to organize data efficiently, with a status bar summarizing Futures/FX, Options, and overall Net P&L. Additional features include exporting to Excel, importing orders from .xls files, trade summaries and recaps, auto-saving of estimation details, and dynamic profit and loss calculations based on price deviation.

Recalculated in real-time with each new tick or fill:

• Initial and Maintenance Margin Requirements;
• Unfilled Initial and Maintenance Margin Requirements.

Real-time account calculations including:

• Long Option Value;
• Short Option Value;
• Net Option Value;
• Start-of-day and Marked-to Market account balance;
• Start-of-day and Marked-to Market open trade equity;
• Start-of-day and Marked-to Market total equity;
• Securities on Deposit;
• Net Liquidation Value;
• Excess/Funds/Purchasing Power.

The platform offers a streamlined interface for options trading by displaying the underlying futures contract along with all strike prices in a vertical format, while organizing calls and puts horizontally for clear comparison. It supports multiple contracts and option chains simultaneously, making it ideal for complex trading setups. Users can customize the layout by configuring futures and options columns, choosing between fixed or scrollable formats, and adjusting colors, fonts, and display preferences. The system fully supports options charting, allows seamless switching between one-click trading and selection mode, and provides key details such as the monetary value of calls, puts, and straddles. Additional features include instrument information access, the ability to print options pages, and quick order entry directly from the last price, bid, or ask.