ATAS: Desktop order-flow and footprint-chart analytics platform for futures, stocks and crypto traders, not a broker or exchange.
Barchart: Chicago-based market data and charting technology firm serving traders, media, and commodity businesses since 1995.
Benzinga Pro: Detroit-based real-time market news platform and trader workstation, also licensing its data via API to brokerages and fintechs.
Bloomberg Terminal: A subscription workstation from Bloomberg L.P. combining real-time market data, news, analytics and trade execution across every major asset class.
Bookmap: Renders the full live limit order book as a real-time liquidity heatmap for futures, equities and crypto order-flow traders.
ChartIQ: White-label HTML5 charting SDK for finance, acquired by S&P Global in 2023 and embedded in Capital IQ Pro.
ChartMill: Bootstrapped Belgian stock screener with 180+ technical and fundamental filters and proprietary Trend, Value and Weinstein ratings.
Cheddar Flow: Real-time options order-flow scanner tracking sweeps and dark pool prints for US retail options traders.
ClusterDelta: A Kyiv-based team building footprint (cluster) order-flow indicators for MetaTrader, cTrader, NinjaTrader and its own desktop app.
CoinGecko: Independent crypto market data aggregator that tracks 18,000+ coins across 1,500+ exchanges and now weighs a roughly $500 million sale.
CoinGlass: Aggregates crypto derivatives and spot data across 30+ exchanges, known for its liquidation heatmaps and open interest tracking tools.
Coinigy: Milwaukee-based multi-exchange crypto trading terminal connecting 45+ exchanges via API keys, non-custodial, now owned by Lightspeed Crypto.
CoinMarketCap: Aggregates prices, volumes and market caps for millions of crypto tokens across hundreds of exchanges; owned by Binance since 2020.
Collective2: Marketplace where independent traders publish algorithmic trading strategies that subscribers auto-copy into their own broker accounts.
CQG: Denver based futures and options trading tech provider with DMA to 45+ exchanges; acquired by Broadridge Financial Solutions in 2026.
cTrader (Spotware): Cyprus based Spotware Systems builds cTrader, a broker licensed multi asset FX/CFD trading platform used by 300+ brokers and prop firms.
Darwinex: FCA and CNMV regulated broker turning traders' track records into investable indices called DARWINs, risk sized rather than trade mirrored.
DEX Screener: Free real-time charting and analytics for tokens trading on decentralized exchanges across 80-plus blockchains, no account required.
eSignal: Windows-based real-time charting and market data platform for active traders, distinguished by its JavaScript-based EFS scripting language.
eToro: Multi-asset trading platform whose CopyTrader tool auto-replicates other investors' trades across stocks, crypto and forex.
FactSet: Integrated financial data terminal and API platform for portfolio management, research, and trading workflows across the investment lifecycle.
Finviz: Web-based stock screener and market heat-map platform covering US equities, futures, forex and crypto, free with delayed data.
FlowAlgo: Subscription platform that flags real-time options sweeps, block trades, and dark pool prints in US markets for retail traders.
GoCharting: Web-based orderflow charting platform combining footprint charts, volume profile and one-click broker execution for active traders.
Highcharts Stock: JavaScript library for candlestick, OHLC and Heikin Ashi stock charts, with 40+ built-in technical indicators, sold per developer seat.
Investing.com: Ad-supported financial data portal with real-time quotes, charts and news across 250 exchanges, monetised via a paid InvestingPro tier.
LSEG Workspace (Refinitiv Eikon): Enterprise terminal for real-time market data, Reuters News and analytics, LSEG's successor to Refinitiv Eikon, retired 30 June 2025.
MarketSurge (Investor's Business Daily): IBD's subscription charting and stock-research platform built around William O'Neil's CAN SLIM growth-investing system
MetaStock: Windows charting and technical-analysis software for self-directed traders, with real-time Refinitiv data via its XENITH add-on.
MetaTrader (MetaQuotes): Cyprus-based developer of MetaTrader 4 and 5, licensed to forex and CFD brokers, banks and exchanges rather than sold directly to traders.
MultiCharts: Windows trading platform for charting, strategy backtesting, and automated execution, coded in its own PowerLanguage or C#/VB.NET.
Myfxbook: Lets forex traders connect broker accounts to verify, track and publicly share trading performance, and copy top traders via AutoTrade.
NAGA: TradingView-powered charts across web, mobile, MetaTrader 4/5 and its own WebTrader, paired with social and copy trading.
NinjaTrader: Futures charting and trading platform with C# strategy automation (NinjaScript), acquired by crypto exchange Kraken in 2025.
Optuma: Windows-based charting platform for technical analysts, built on Relative Rotation Graphs and no-code market-scanning scripts.
ORTEX: Daily-updated short interest, securities lending and options-flow analytics for equities, priced as a lower-cost alternative to terminal data feeds.
ProRealTime: French charting and algo-trading software firm whose regulated brokerage arm executes via Interactive Brokers, Saxo Bank and IG.
Quantower: Windows desktop trading platform connecting to 80+ brokers, exchanges and data feeds for order-flow, futures, options and crypto trading.
Rithmic R|Trader Pro: Rithmic's professional futures charting and order-execution front-end, built on the firm's sub-millisecond direct-market-access network.
Sierra Chart: Windows desktop charting and order-routing platform for futures and order-flow traders, built around an open C++ custom-study API.
S&P Capital IQ Pro: Desktop and web research platform from S&P Global Market Intelligence covering 109,000+ public and 60 million+ private companies.
SpotGamma: Options analytics firm that pioneered retail publication of dealer gamma exposure (GEX), used to flag hedging-driven price levels.
Sterling Trader Pro: Desktop direct-market-access platform for equities, options and futures, distributed through broker partners, not sold directly to retail.
StockCharts.com: Web-based charting platform built around SharpCharts and ChartSchool, serving 1.9 million monthly retail technical analysts.
Stock Rover: A browser-based stock, ETF and fund screener with portfolio tracking and nightly brokerage-account sync for self-directed investors.
Stocktwits: Social platform where traders discuss stocks, ETFs and crypto by cashtag and see crowd sentiment on each ticker.
TC2000: TC2000 pairs stock/options charting and EasyScan screening with its own FINRA-registered brokerage for direct trade execution.
thinkorswim: Charles Schwab's active-trader platform combining professional charting, thinkScript scripting and free live-market paper trading.
Trade Ideas: Real-time stock and ETF scanner whose AI engine, Holly, backtests dozens of strategies overnight to issue daily entry/exit trade signals.
TradeStation: Desktop, web and mobile trading platform built around EasyLanguage strategy scripting and the RadarScreen real-time market scanner.
TradingView: Web-based charting platform and trader social network, scripting custom indicators in Pine Script and routing orders to linked brokers.
TrendSpider: Cloud-based charting platform automating trendline detection, multi-timeframe backtesting, and no-code trading bots for active traders.
Unusual Whales: Retail market data platform tracking real-time options flow, dark pool prints, and disclosed US congressional stock trades.
VectorVest: Stock analysis software that scores roughly 16,000 US stocks daily on value, safety and timing and issues a buy, sell or hold call.
Volumetrica Trading: Italian vendor of VolSys/VolBook (now Deepchart/DeepDom): footprint, volume-profile and DOM charting platforms for futures prop firms.
ZuluTrade: Copy trading platform where investors auto-replicate ranked strategy providers' trades via a linked MT4, MT5 or co-branded broker account.
