Some of the Many Included Features...
Paper Trading
A very robust Paper Trading Platform is included in every version of OST-IraCharts.
No matter which version of OST you choose to use, the Paper Trading Platform's full functionality work. In Paper Trading you can:
- Practice Placing Orders
- Learn how to place Trade Orders
- See the speed orders get placed
- View fill messages
- Place orders by clicking on a Sidebar on a Chart screen
- Trade from a Depth of Market Window
- Use a Quick Order Entry Line to place orders
- Place trades from your Custom Quote Page by clicking on the Last Price
- Place trades from your Custom Quote Page by clicking on the Bid or Offer
- Create a Working Order Window
- Create a Filled Orders Window
- View your Paper Trading Account Balance in real time
- Learn to customize how you want orders placed
- Learn to use a Full Order Screen
- Learn to place Spread Orders
- Learn to place Option on Futures Orders
- With but one click, toggle between Paper Trading and real Order Entry
- Clone your trading account, including cash and positions into your Paper Trading Account
There is much much more that our Paper Trading does. You'll have to experience it to fully appreciate just how robust it is!
Warning: No one should place real orders before fully experiencing and learning how to place Paper Trade Orders. Learn the order entry process firsthand in Paper Trading and apply that knowledge to real trading.
QT Headline News
QT Headline News offers timely and precise market information throughout the trading day. By providing brief snippets of news concerning major U.S and world events that pertain to the futures markets, QT Headlines keep you informed without wasting your time. In order to ensure that you have all the information necessary for a successful trading day, QT News includes several daily weather reports from Agricultural Meteorologist Drew Lerner of the World Weather Service. With QT Headline News, you will be kept up-to-date on the latest market conditions, current world and U.S. news, as well as daily and forecasted weather updates.
Only the most vital market-moving headlines...
- Streaming News Wire incorporated into your IraChart Software
- Read what experienced sources on the trading floors have to say
- Government reports and reactions to such sent right into IraChart
- Timely and to the Point
To listen to market making event in real-time, listen to Futuresline (see below), our oral market commentary web radio station which plays through IraCharts. All FREE 30-Day Trial members of OST receive 30-Days of Futuresline Radio as well. If your subscription to Futuresline has expired you can easily sign up for it through your OST-IraCharts or from our Subscriptions page.
Futuresline Audio News
Futuresline, Market Information Digitized Audio, provides traders with oral, timely information from trading floors and research rooms. From their broadcast booth in the 12th floor atrium at the Chicago Board of Trade, Futuresline provides a constant flow of audio information from experienced brokers and traders, providing you with an important tool necessary to compete in today's market. By providing audio data via Internet or satellite, they quickly relay information to the trader who demands the feel of the marketplace and knowledge of the latest market activity. In order to accommodate your busy schedule, Futuresline offers these market updates live and in archived form on your PC, so that you can hear the latest news at your convenience. Through detailed coverage of technical as well as fundamental data, Futuresline offers you the opinions of seasoned traders and analysts while keeping you abreast of the latest market conditions.
Futuresline is accessed through IraChart Software. It is designed to play right through your computers speakers. Once you login to your IraChart Software, you can surf the web or view charts and news, while listening to hundreds of market updates, through out the trading day.
"Your connection to the pulse of the marketplace..."
- Live Broadcasts..8-hours a day
- Immediate announcement and analysis of Key Government Reports
- Interviews with Market Participants
- Information on Weather, Financials, Grains, Softs, Meats, and The Energy Complex
View Futuresline Broadcast Schedule
Futuresline plays through and is included in the FREE 14-Day Trial to OST-IraCharts.
If your subscription to Futuresline has expired you can easily sign up for it through your OST-IraCharts or from our Subscriptions page.
Weather Maps
View vital market-moving weather patterns...
Weather Maps are included with OST-IraCharts. You'll see continually updated maps of all key world growing regions. 20 Maps, continuously updated every 10-minutes are included with OST-IraCharts... All maps are specific to the Futures Markets.
Pictorial Map coverage includes: Maps specific to Moisture Levels, 24 and 48-Hours Fronts, 5-Day Accumulated Precipitation Forecast, Current Forecast, Eastern and Western US Satellite Images, Western Hemisphere Satellite Image, Australian, European, Indian and Chinese Weather Weather Forecasts, The Palmer Drought Index and more.
Whether you trade Grain or Energy Markets. Both domestic and world map coverage is important in making trading decisions....that is why we've incorporated them into OST-IraCharts.
In addition to pictorial map coverage, Audio coverage is provided throughout the trading session. The Audio files are easily accessed on the Weather Page, with several updates throughout the day from Agricultural Meteorologist Drew Lerner of the World Weather Service.