Axial Finance Global Trader

For confirmed Traders and Professionals

Stock Exchanges - Markets

Global stock exchanges available in real-time [see available exchanges]
Real-time Forex with Tick Volume [see available pairs]
Automatic update of financial instrument lists for stock exchanges
Creation of an unlimited number of personal instrument lists
Selection of options by underlying, style, and expiration date
Fact sheet for each instrument
Display of the latest known exchange rates for major currencies
Quick search for instruments by name, ISIN code, or symbol
Personalization of business sectors

Technical and Chart Analysis

Creation, storage, and recall of workspaces (unlimited number)
Price charts with multi-windowing (unlimited number) covering 30 years for "end-of-day" data and 10 years for intraday
Multi-monitor workspace management
Detach chart windows from the main screen
"End-of-day" price charts in n days, weekly, monthly, and yearly views
Intraday charts in tick-by-tick, n ticks, n seconds, n minutes, n hours, Range Bar, and Tick Volume
Time cursor to move and dilate (zoom) the timescale
Automatic or adjustable vertical price scale (linear or logarithmic)
Quick vertical and horizontal chart movement via mouse drag-and-drop
Japanese Candlesticks, Heikin-Ashi Candlesticks, Bar-Charts, or Closing Price lines
Kagi charts, Support-Resistance charts, Point and Figure presentation
Relative strength curve compared to another instrument or a market index
100+ customizable technical indicators [see list of indicators]
Synthetic indicator calculating the percentage of instruments in a market that satisfy a user-programmed rule or signal
Presentation of all technical indicators in a Slideshow
Choice of indicator line styles: single and two-tone lines, histograms, mountain charts...
Graphic tools: Fibonacci (Retracements, Arcs, Fans, Extensions, Projections, and Cycles), Gann (Angles and Grids), Speed Lines, and Andrews' Pitchfork
Graphic tools for drawing lines (Support, Resistance, Trend Channels, etc.) and adding text. Choice of color, dash style, line thickness, and font
Layer system for chart drawings
Storage of indicator choices and chart drawings
Recording of Resistance and Support levels and automatic display of the gap from the last price
Access to analyses performed by the Day By Day technical analysis desk [more info]
Mobile cursor with data window (open, high, low, close, volume) as well as technical indicator values for each bar
Export of charts in PNG format

Real-time Trading

Real-time Feed via streaming ("tick-by-tick")
Price tables (up to 10 simultaneously) to follow instrument lists in real-time with:
- Latest transaction: time, price, price change, traded volume
- Latest bid and ask: time, price, volume
- Opening price, daily high and low, previous day's closing price
- Cumulative volume since market open
Order books with the best bid and ask prices in three different forms (tabular, histogram, or integrated into the price chart)
Transaction lists executed for each instrument since the market open.
Screener (up to 10 simultaneously) to search in real-time for instruments from a list (up to 1500 instruments) that meet a programmed rule and according to the chosen periodicity. The screener results are ranked based on customizable criteria.
Market Movers / Rankings (up to 10 simultaneously) to rank instrument lists in real-time (each with up to 1500 instruments) by percentage change since open, close, n minutes, n hours, n days, n weeks, n months, January 1st of the year, with a display of the number of advancing and declining instruments.
Real-time alert system for an unlimited number of instruments. For each instrument, the user can define as many alerts as desired from the following types:
- Price reaches a target
- Price breaks above or below a target
- Breakout of a resistance or support level
- Intraday volume exceeds a target
- Percentage price change exceeds target relative to open or previous close
- Detection of a user-defined signal or rule, based on a fixed periodicity.
Each alert can be notified in several ways: sound, popup window, chart arrow, log entry, and email. Additionally, a central table summarizes all programmed alerts.
Real-time volume alert system for detecting abnormally high volumes traded at market open or during the session.
Broker Simulator for manual order execution. Open positions are tracked in the price charts. A trading portfolio updated in real-time records all operations performed.
Order entry from charts or order books to Lynx and Interactive Brokers.
Automated Trading from a real-time chart. A strategy developed in backtesting can be executed in real-time, with order entry in simulation or live mode. Each price chart executes the selected strategy independently of other charts.
A command button starts and stops automated trading.
Evaluation of strategy signals occurs either at a fixed frequency (1 to 60 seconds) or at the close of a bar based on the periodicity chosen in the chart.
Signals and open positions are displayed on the chart, as well as potential stop order levels. Unrealized P&L is displayed in real-time, along with the percentage change between the last price and the average cost basis of the position.
Tick Flow feature to detect in real-time and at a glance the few instruments that suddenly experience a high number of transactions, signaling the start of a strong upward or downward move.
All transactions from an unlimited list of instruments are displayed in a summarized "tick-by-tick" format in a table to easily highlight instruments experiencing sudden high trading volume.
DDE Link: export real-time feed data to Excel.

Trading Systems and Backtesting

Programming and visualization of custom technical indicators and signals in JavaScript (Click here to download the programming manual).
Definition of buy/sell rules from a library of pre-programmed and custom signals using visual construction of a logic tree for the decision process.
Each signal can be specified with a specific periodicity, allowing the strategy to operate across multiple timeframes.
Creation of screening rules from a library of pre-programmed signals.
This creation requires no programming knowledge. A visual programming system allows for the creation of an unlimited number of simple or complex rules using the library of pre-programmed and customizable signals.
Each signal can be specified with a specific periodicity, allowing the screening rule to operate across multiple timeframes.
Definition of strategies with:
- Rules for opening and closing "Long" and "Short" positions
- Implementation methods: fixed capitalized stake, fixed stake per order, or fixed quantity per order
- Definition of transaction fees and opening/closing position prices
- Definition of Stop conditions
Backtesting of strategies on price history ("end-of-day" or intraday) with display of the Equity Curve, opening/closing signals, stops, and Maximum Drawdown
Four modes of backtesting:
- A single strategy applied to a price chart
- A single strategy applied simultaneously to a list of instruments
- A set of strategies applied simultaneously to one instrument
- A strategy with variable parameters applied to one instrument
Display of Equity Curve performance in currency or relative percentage
Display of the Drawdown curve in "Close Position to Close Position" or "Peak to Valley"
Detailed analysis of results for strategies
Graphic and tabular comparison of strategy results
Display of the backtest Optimization Report
Import and Export of custom indicators and signals, screening rules, and strategies to share them between software users
Import of screening rules made available on the Axial Finance website.

Options Chain Table

Tabular presentation of all Call and Put options for an underlying, sorted by increasing strike prices, for a given expiration and style
For each option in the table: display of the last price, bid and ask prices, settlement price, average price, implied volatility, and Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho)
Real-time update of table data with calculation of implied volatility and Greeks
Customization of dividend and interest rate with automatic recalculation of implied volatility and Greeks
Visual identification (background coloring) for In-the-Money and Out-of-the-Money options
Open the Pricer window by clicking on an option
Open the price chart by clicking on an option
Add the selected option to a personal list

Option Price Calculation: Pricer

Open the Pricer from the symbol list, the global options chain, the Strategies screen, and the Portfolio screen
Simultaneous opening of any number of Pricers
Automatic initialization of the Pricer with the latest real-time data
Automatic calculation of theoretical price, implied volatility, and Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho)
Choice of calculation method: Black-Scholes or Binomial
Automatic recalculation of the option after modifying the strike, underlying price, time to expiration, dividend, and interest rate
Ability to define a precise implied volatility value for the option calculation

Analysis and Search for Best Strategies

Dedicated workspace for options strategies
Strategy with an unlimited number of options, futures contracts, and stocks of the same underlying
Creation of an unlimited number of strategies, modification, storage, and recall of a strategy in a dedicated workspace
Creation of a strategy from template strategies (Straddle, Strangle, Synthetic Call or Put, Call or Put spread, Condor, Butterfly, etc.)
Add an option, a futures contract, or a stock to the open strategy from the symbol list using the "drag-and-drop" method
Presentation of the details of symbols composing the strategy in a sliding panel
Automatic analysis of the impact on the strategy following modifications to each position's presence, direction (buy or sell), quantity, entry price, dividend, and implied volatility
Two operating modes available: real-time mode or simulation mode with underlying and option prices modifiable by the user
Setting of the interest rate applied to all options
Display of strategy cost
Automatic display of Greeks calculated in real-time (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho) based on quantities and trade direction
Graphic display of P&L at expiration, instantaneous P&L, and Greeks based on the underlying value
Zoom, save, and print the chart
In simulation mode, analyze the impact of reduced time to expiration for all options
In simulation mode, analyze the impact of a variation in implied volatility on Call or Put options
Automatic copy of strategy positions into the open portfolio as pending positions

Coverage Analysis and Real-time Portfolio Tracking

Dedicated workspace for portfolios
Creation of an unlimited number of portfolios, storage, and recall of a portfolio in the dedicated workspace, each portfolio containing positions related to orders executed by the broker and pending positions for orders present only for analysis and thus not transmitted for execution
In each portfolio: options with different underlyings, futures contracts, and stocks
Automatic recalculation of the portfolio with every real-time price change or modification of a position's parameters
Entry of an order into the portfolio from the symbol list via "drag-and-drop" with order parameter entry
Automatic copy of strategy positions as pending positions
Display for each open position: opening date, quantity, direction, unit cost, underlying price, average price, last price, position value, unrealized P&L, realized P&L, dividend, theoretical price, implied volatility, settlement price, expiration date, lot size
Setting of the interest rate applied to all options
Temporary deactivation of an open position to analyze the impact on results
Command to execute a pending position order
Modification of the dividend for an option position
Modification of pending position characteristics: direction, quantity, entry price, dividend, and implied volatility
Summary display of open positions
Display of order details for open positions
Display of history for closed positions with order details
Real-time calculation and display of the portfolio Delta in monetary value corresponding to a 1% change in each underlying relative to instantaneous prices
Graphic display of P&L at expiration, instantaneous P&L, and Delta based on underlying price variations relative to their real-time values
Zoom, save, and print the chart
Display of unrealized and realized P&L

Documentation

Detailed and instructional User Manual provided in PDF format (approx. 180 pages), also accessible online and from the software's Help menu.
Descriptive sheets for technical indicators accessible online and within the software

Recommended Minimum System Requirements

Processor: Intel Core or equivalent (2 GHz minimum)
RAM: 8 GB
Storage: 500 MB free space
Display: Minimum resolution 1366x768
Supported Systems:
- Windows 10 or higher
- macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or higher
- Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and derived distributions)