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.
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RightCapital
Score 9.0 out of 10
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According to the vendor, RightCapital's financial planning solution allows financial advisors to:
•Differentiate their value for more clients.
•Create a simple plan in as little as 10 minutes.
•Empower themselves to evolve with planning needs.
$124.95
per month
Pricing
Fidelity Active Trader Pro
RightCapital
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$124.95
per month per user
Premium
$149.95
per month per user
Platinum
Call RightCapital
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Fidelity Active Trader Pro
RightCapital
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No 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.
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.
I think it is well suited for planners that are just starting out and have an appreciation for cash flow analysis for their clients. I think it is more bang for your buck in that regard. The cash flow analysis can be a helpful addition when discussing client finances because it's easy to say that goals will be reached, but it's better to describe, year by year, how a client's cash flow will look.
Unlike Active Trader Pro, TD Ameritrade's advanced desktop platform thinkorswim has no frequent trader requirements. It is also very advanced, boasting 400 technical studies and 20 drawing tools. It offers paper money, a practice mode. Forex and futures can also be traded on thinkorswim. There are many useful features on thinkorswim, such as heat maps, live streaming of CNBC, an economic calendar, alerts, and more. thinkorswim is tailored to more sophisticated traders and it is not that user-friendly compared to Active Trader Pro.
Again, as I mentioned before, RightCapital seems to be much more user-friendly for people starting out because of how intuitive the platform is. In addition, it beats on cost and flexibility, in my opinion. I think the cost per advisor with eMoney can be around $3600, and RightCapital is half that. Now there may be services that I will need as I grow that will compel me to switch, but I am not there yet and am unwilling to lose the features that RightCapital provides.
