Finally! Rithmic on the Web! Optimus Trader - Our Flagship Platform

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by MattZ, May 28, 2019.

  1. MattZ

    MattZ Sponsor

    Optimus Futures is very excited to announce the launch of our very own flagship trading platform, OptimusTrader - A user-friendly, visually stunning and function-rich futures trading platform developed to address the biggest challenge of trading the futures markets: Fast Execution.

    https://trade.optimusfutures.com/
    Please Sign up for your 14-day live demo trial.


    The platform is free of charge to Optimus Futures customers who use AMP as their clearing firm. Please email us at support@optimusfutures.com to receive our unique AMP application.

    By incorporating Rithmic’s New API - R Protocol, Optimus Trader is able to gain access to R | Trade Execution Platform’s™ custom time, tick, volume and range bars, symbol lookups and server-side trailing stops, OCOs and brackets. Rithmic is known for its light source code and the ability to deliver unfiltered data. Now with the new R Protocol, you can get all these features over the web. You may be a skeptic when it comes to the speed of web-based execution, but Optimus Trader will challenge that misconception.

    The development of Optimus Trader was a cooperation of traders, brokers, developers and market experts who brought relevant experience from different fields in order to create a futures trading platform that is ready to take on and surpass established brands.

    And if you are using a trading platform driven by Rithmic for your charting, Optimus Trader is the ideal companion platform for your execution and reporting. Simply plug in your Rithmic credentials directly into Optimus Trader and start trading.

    Get fast Rithmic execution directly in your browser. In just one click, Optimus Trader will open up in a new window giving you instant access to trading futures – anywhere, anytime.

    https://trade.optimusfutures.com/
    Please Sign up for your 14-day live demo trial.
     
  2. SteveH

    SteveH

    In a browser window, you have 1 thread of execution. In a native application, you can utilize all of the CPU cores on your PC. There's no misconception of which one is better for real-time trading.
     
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  3. MattZ

    MattZ Sponsor

    While it's technically true that properly multithreaded software written in lower level programming languages can currently outperform a browser application, the difference is considerably more minuscule than a human can perceive, and is thus only applicable to high-frequency trading.

    On our platform, we utilize the in-browser Worker API, which allows us to offload work onto multiple threads. Many browsers also have different types of multithreading. For instance, Chrome has a multi-process architecture and each process is heavily multi-threaded, some rendering is also offloaded to the GPU (graphics card). The majority of the OptimusTrader platform is utilizing hardware acceleration in supported browsers.
     
  4. qlai

    qlai

    This sounds weird, what does this mean? Anyone.
     
  5. MattZ

    MattZ Sponsor

    hardware acceleration is a feature that allows the browser to access the device graphics hardware to speed up processes, thus improving the overall user experience.
     
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  6. destriero

    destriero

    I'm running it on a Mac Trashcan as well as a AIX Power System. I like the front end.
     
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  7. MattZ

    MattZ Sponsor

    Thanks for the feedback @destriero ! It's clean, and the focus was on execution.
     
  8. destriero

    destriero


    It's very fast. I have a gaming rig with dual GTX 1080 Ti cards and it's really flying. Gbit ethernet. Sent you a PM for info on rates.
     
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  9. qlai

    qlai

    Matt, I am always curious why with so many platforms available, people invest time and money into developing new ones (seemingly reinventing the wheel).
    Would you mind talking about what functionality you felt was missing (or was sub par) that inspired you to build your own? Or is it that you have enough customers for whom you would be able to do customizations that would be harder to get done with other "generic" platforms?
     
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  10. MattZ

    MattZ Sponsor

    I replied back.
     
    #10     May 29, 2019