QST is a fast, flexible futures and options platform that pairs professional charting and analytics with deep options tools and one-click order entry from virtually any window. Trade and manage positions across desktop, web, and mobile, practice with integrated paper trading, and start with a free demo through Discount Trading.
QST is a state-of-the-art futures and options trading application. It combines comprehensive, fast, and flexible order entry and order management with advanced charting and analytics, real-time quotes, and news. Order entry runs through the whole platform — from almost any screen, including a chart, you can place and manage orders and fills.
It is a platform we genuinely like for options. QST shows real-time bids and offers, Greeks, and volatility, lays out a full options chain, and includes an options calculator with five pricing models. Discount Trading offers QST with a free demo and integrated paper trading, so you can learn the interface and test ideas before committing real money.
Order entry is pervasive in QST. Enter and manage orders and fills from virtually any screen, including charts, with a simple left-click to buy and right-click to sell.
Full charting with built-in studies and drawing tools, plus the analytics serious traders expect. Set up the chart views that match the way you trade.
Real-time bids and offers, Greeks, volatility, and the underlying futures, with user-defined parameters so you can model the scenarios you care about.
See every strike for a contract in one place: strikes listed vertically with calls and puts arranged horizontally, across all months.
Calculate theoretical value and implied volatility using Black-Scholes, Black ’76, Barone-Adesi Whaley, Binomial, and Trinomial models.
Trade directly from the depth-of-market ladder with one click. All prices show in a consistent format with the correct decimal and minimum tick.
Practice strategies in a paper account and toggle between paper and live trading with a single click — the interface stays the same.
Real-time profit and loss is shown on every screen, and real-time links to Excel let you pull data out for your own analysis.
Synthetic orders such as trailing stops, Iceberg, and auto spreads, plus invalid-order protection that halts a bad request and notifies you before it is ever submitted.
Options are where QST stands out. The advanced options functionality gives you real-time bids and offers, Greeks, volatility, and the underlying futures, along with user-defined parameters for running different trading scenarios. The options chain shows every strike for a contract — strikes down the side, calls and puts across — so you can see all months in a single table.
The built-in options calculator works from five models — Black-Scholes, Black ’76, Barone-Adesi Whaley, Binomial, and Trinomial — to calculate theoretical value and implied volatility. QST also displays the currency value of options and futures contracts (not just the last trade), shows the monetary value of calls, puts, and straddles, and supports options charting.
QST charting is built for analysis as well as execution. You get full charts with studies and drawing tools, and you can trade straight from the chart. The platform is built to be customized: set the colors, layouts, fonts, and sizes that let you monitor quotes, study charts, and place trades the way you work best.
QST keeps order entry simple and consistent: left-click to buy, right-click to sell, in a single action. The price ladder and depth-of-market view let you work orders with one click, and prices always display in a consistent format with the correct decimal and minimum tick. Synthetic order types such as trailing stops, Iceberg, and auto spreads are supported, and invalid order requests are halted and flagged before they reach the exchange.
Finding a market is quick: type a name like “soybeans” or “corn” and QST returns the available expirations to choose from. Each contract carries its details — exchange, contract value, minimum tick size, point value, open and close times, and margin requirements — so the information you need is right there as you trade.
Integrated paper trading lets you learn the QST interface and practice strategies, then switch to live with one click. For traders and brokers running more than one account, QST includes multi-account access and a custom account-group editor for organizing accounts, with real-time profit and loss shown across every screen.
QST runs as a full desktop application on Windows and Mac, in a web browser, and on phones and tablets through QST Mobile for iOS and Android. The mobile app carries the same core functionality with a native interface and one-tap trading from the main modules — Quotes Monitor, Price Ladder, Full Screen Charts, Options Chain, and Orders & Positions — backed by 24/6 customer support. Whatever device you are on, the order entry and analytics work the same way.
Try QST free for 17 days with live data before you fund an account, then keep practicing with integrated paper trading.
Greeks, volatility, a full options chain, and a five-model options calculator — QST is a serious tool for options on futures.
Discount Trading charges $0.49 or less per contract commission on standard futures and $0.20 or less per contract commission on micro index futuresiExchange, clearing, and regulatory fees apply..
Some of the lowest day-trading margins available for active intraday tradersiLeverage can work for you as well as against you - it magnifies gains as well as losses..
Learn the interface and test strategies in a paper account, then switch to live trading with a single click.
Talk to a real futures broker. We help with account questions, platform issues, and execution — by phone, not just chat.
QST is a futures and options trading platform that pairs fast, flexible order entry with professional charting, real-time quotes, and deep options analytics. You can enter and manage orders from almost any window, including charts, and run it on desktop, in a web browser, or on mobile.
Discount Trading charges $0.49 or less per contract commission on standard futures and $0.20 or less per contract commission on micro index futuresiExchange, clearing, and regulatory fees apply.. QST itself is offered through Discount Trading, and a free demo is available so you can try the platform before you fund an account.
Yes. QST is built with options traders in mind. It shows real-time bids and offers, Greeks, and volatility, displays a full options chain with strikes listed vertically and calls and puts arranged horizontally, and includes an options calculator with five pricing models for theoretical value and implied volatility.
Yes. Discount Trading offers a free 17-day QST demo with live data. QST also has integrated paper trading built in, so you can practice strategies and switch between paper and live with a single click.
QST runs on Windows and Mac desktops, in a web browser, and on iOS and Android through QST Mobile. Mobile gives you one-tap trading from the Quotes Monitor, Price Ladder, Full Screen Charts, Options Chain, and Orders & Positions screens.
You can trade futures and options on futures across the major U.S. and global exchanges through your Discount Trading account. Quick symbol lookup and full contract details, including tick size, point value, trading hours, and margins, are built into the platform.
Yes. QST supports synthetic orders such as trailing stops, Iceberg, and auto spreads. It also halts invalid order requests and notifies you before anything is submitted, and all prices are shown in a consistent format with the correct decimal and minimum tick.
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