Axial Finance Maestro

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 instruments by market segments, indices, and business sectors
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

Price History Updates

Multiple methods for updating price history depending on the subscription, with history stored locally for offline software use:
1. Automatic download of prices when instruments are displayed in charts
2. Bulk automatic download of "end-of-day" prices for selected stock exchanges upon software startup
3. Bulk download by markets or instrument lists of "end-of-day" price history
4. Bulk download of intraday price history over 12 months in 1-minute ticks
Up to 40 years of "end-of-day" price history provided with the software for stocks from major global exchanges
Import and export of "end-of-day" and intraday price history via text or Excel files, using predefined or custom formats
Enable/Disable dividend adjustments for price display in charts
Stock splits and price history updates

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.

Market Screening and Trading Assistance Tools

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 pre-programmed and customizable signal library.
Each signal can be specified with a specific periodicity, allowing the screening rule to operate across multiple timeframes.
Application of screening rules directly on price charts.
Screening of entire markets and personal instrument lists based on "end-of-day" prices to find instruments meeting user-defined decision criteria via screening rules. Ten screening rules can be applied simultaneously, with results ranked according to the chosen weighting for each rule.
Automatic alert detection based on "end-of-day" prices for an unlimited number of instruments. These alerts detect breakouts of horizontal or oblique resistance and support levels, entry or exit of a trend channel, and responses to signals or screening rules.
Centralized table of resistance and support levels determined by the Day By Day technical analysis desk
Performance Rankings calculated on "end-of-day" prices for a chosen duration, ranked by top gainers, top losers, or proximity to the extreme high or extreme low
Detailed consultation of the entire stored price history

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.
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.

Fundamental Analysis

Recording of major past, present, and forecast financial data from the income statements of listed companies, as well as analyst forecasts.
Recording for each company:
- Key elements of the income statement for the last four fiscal years (actual), the current year (forecast), and the next two years (forecast)
- Key balance sheet elements for the last four fiscal years (actual) and the current year (forecast)
- Key financial ratios: Market Cap to Revenue, P/E Ratio, EPS, Profitability, EPS Growth Forecast, Price to Book Value, Enterprise Value to Revenue, Net Debt to Equity, and Return on Equity
Updates of market capitalization and P/E ratio upon downloading "end-of-day" prices
Graphic comparison of financial ratios for companies grouped by lists (Histogram, line, or scatter plot charts)
Ranking of companies according to their financial ratios
Printing of charts
Export of charts in PNG format

Multi-Portfolio Management

Creation of an unlimited number of portfolios for cash purchases, SRD (deferred settlement) purchases, and short selling.
Currency operations for exchanges outside the Eurozone
Simulation and recording of cash and SRD orders
Estimation of available coverage for SRD orders (customizable leverage)
Brokerage fees customizable by portfolio, calculation of stock exchange tax
Calculation of potential unrealized P&L in real-time for instruments in portfolios
Plotting of the portfolio performance chart and comparison with a market index
Calculation of the net asset value (NAV) of portfolios in real-time and upon downloading end-of-day prices
Calculation of disposal amounts between two dates
Summary table per portfolio
Definition and graphic presentation of Price Targets, Supports, Resistances, and Stop levels for each instrument in the portfolios
Programmable alarm trigger when a support, resistance, or stop level is reached via the Real-time Feed
Cash management, dividends, bonus shares
Notes per instrument
Presentation and printing of Transaction Logs and Liquidation Statements
Export of the transaction log to an Excel file
Visualization of portfolio distribution by instrument, market, and business sector
Backup and restoration of portfolio content

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)