Composer vs. Fidelity Active Trader Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Composer
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Composer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.N/A
Fidelity Active Trader Pro
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Active Trader Pro is Fidelity's customizable trading platform for the desktop and optimized for online trading technology. The solution offers real-time insights, visual snapshots to monitor investments, and trading tools.N/A
Pricing
ComposerFidelity Active Trader Pro
Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
ComposerFidelity Active Trader Pro
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details$0 commissions for online US stock, ETF, and option trades. Margin rates among the most competitive in the industry—as low as 4.00%. No minimums to open an account.
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User Ratings
ComposerFidelity Active Trader Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Usability
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8.8
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
ComposerFidelity Active Trader Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
I do highly recommend it whenever you have some PHP projects, especially if you need to have reusable modules that you want to share across teams. With a good branching an tagging strategy, you can go a long way in making your developers' life easier. They will only need to work on the modules that are of interest of them, and not have to touch the whole codebase.
Also, it's quite necessary if you are planning to use community PHP modules, as the vast majority of them is distributed, and versionned via packagist.org, and thus via composer.
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Fiidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
Fantastic for the planning and execution of trades, as follows: (1) Offers nearly 50 market filters, including technical, social sentiment, and custom options filters, (2) supports analysis of option market sentiment with volatility and open interest statistics, as well as the day’s biggest trades, (3) functionality to trade equities, ETFs, simple and complex option strategies with extended-hours and directed trading capabilities, (4) capacity to create and save up to 50 orders and place them at the right time, (5) helps manage risk and profit potential with conditional orders, (6) allows placement of a variety of simple and complex multi-leg option orders, (7) provides ability to monitor portfolio with streaming quotes, real-time gain and loss, streaming balances, and streaming order status updates, and (8) allows creation of personalized layouts to see the market and portfolio information that’s important to you Set trade defaults, create shortcuts, and use hotkeys to quickly and efficiently navigate through the platform.
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Pros
Open Source
  • Controlling dependencies
  • Fast dependency resolver
  • Easy to use dependency injection
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Fiidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
  • Customizable to display information the way I want to see it.
  • Clean, straightforward interface to let me quickly access information from cursory overview to detailed tax information.
  • Equipped with good security measures.
  • Very user friendly.
  • The software has some nice features, including watch lists, market news, alerts, and real-time balances. The program also displays tax-lot information in real-time. There are advanced options tools as well. Active Trader Pro is able to submit up to 20 orders at once using a multi-order ticket.
  • Active Trader Pro has many available features. Alerts can be set, watch lists can be created, and market news can be followed. Balances are shown in real-time. Each of these elements can be assigned to its own window. Tax-lot info can be shown in real-time as well. A multi-order trading ticket can submit 20 orders at once. Up to 50 orders can be built and saved.
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Cons
Open Source
  • Sometimes a bit slow, but v2 made a lot of improvements on that
  • If everything is modular, setting up a local dev environment is a bit trickier than having everything in the same repo
  • Might be hard to adopt with some frameworks which have not fully embraced it, like Wordpress
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Fiidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
  • Basic explanations of what the functionality is for those who do not fully understand how 401ks work
  • Explaining the difference between Roth and traditional 401Ks
  • More availability for 1:1 appointments with employees
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Usability
Open Source
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Fiidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
I have never had any issues using the product, my biggest complaint is that admins cannot change their usernames and the ones that are generated are very hard to remember.
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Alternatives Considered
Open Source
If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ...
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Fiidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
Highly comparable. thinkorswim was a great platform and Fidelity has achieved competing against it. Ease of learning curve with training and the ability to configure exactly what the user wants to see is a huge plus. The customizations available are a major bonus and Fidelity's overall customer experience is a beacon in the marketplace.
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • Composer only has had positive impacts in our business. It saves a lot of time and resource in order to develop a software.
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Fiidelity Investments (FMR LLC)
  • It shows our workforce we are choosing vendors that are adapting to the modern age.
  • It helps us solve a technological gap related to the workforce that does not have access to desktops or laptops.
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