The LSE Directory / Charting platforms
R|Trader Pro is the professional charting and order-management front-end built by Rithmic, LLC, a broker- and FCM-neutral provider of direct-market-access trade execution and market-data infrastructure for futures. The platform gives traders real-time quotes, market depth and option strikes, order placement and management tools, and charting, all running on Rithmic's own R|Trade Execution Platform, a hosted, multi-asset execution system Rithmic has operated since 2006. It ships as a Windows desktop application, a browser-based web platform, and iOS/Android mobile apps; traders reach it only through a broker, futures commission merchant, or funding/evaluation firm that provisions the login, since Rithmic itself does not deal directly with retail customers. R|Trader Pro differentiates on execution speed and data integrity rather than a broad multi-asset feature set. Rithmic quotes tick-to-trade latency under 250 microseconds on its R|Diamond API and roughly 1 millisecond on the standard R|API+, delivers unfiltered, non-conflated tick data including Market-By-Order depth that shows individual resting orders at each price level, and retains roughly 40GB of tick history per user per week, reachable back to December 2011. On top of the base R|Trader execution screen, R|Trader Pro adds about 100 built-in charting studies, eight chart styles, an options board, a full depth-of-market ladder, and a two-way live link into Microsoft Excel for building and streaming custom indicators or automated signals back into the platform. Because Rithmic sells infrastructure rather than brokerage, the same execution layer underlies more than 30 third-party trading platforms, among them NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, Quantower and ATAS, rather than being tied to one front end. Rithmic, LLC was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Orangeburg, New York, having started in nearby Pearl River, New York. Its infrastructure spans data-center connection points on three continents, including Chicago, Aurora, New York, Frankfurt, Dublin, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Cape Town and Seoul, with direct routing to CME Group's full product suite plus Eurex, Nasdaq and the Small Exchange. Its client base runs from individual futures traders to proprietary-trading and funded-account firms; publicly listed users of Rithmic connectivity include prop and funded-account firms such as Apex Trader Funding, Topstep, TradeDay, Earn2Trade and OneUp Trader.
