Rithmic R|Trader Pro

Rithmic R|Trader Pro — Our Premier Recommended Trading Platform

If you are seeking one of the best platforms for futures trading, we typically recommend Rithmic R|Trader Pro. At Discount Trading, we are able to offer this platform to our clients with Ultra-Low margins for free. If you want the lowest margin rates offered at Discount, this is the platform for you.

Multi-Monitor Support — Pull out windows onto other monitors including charts and price ladders. Amazing charts, coupled with a fantastic Price Ladder, DOM and unfiltered direct access market data, make Rithmic an excellent choice for many different types of traders. Bracket Orders are very simple to use and implement. One click trading from charts and a price ladder is available. View all of your performance from a performance analyzing page.

Rithmic R|Trader Pro Features

• Multi-Monitor Support! Pull Charts and Trading Windows onto Multiple Monitors
• Easy to use Bracket Order Entry System
• Quote distribution is quick and clean (and the quotes are non-throttled)
• Orders are routed FAST to CME Globex — CBOT, CME, NYMEX, COMEX
• Flexible controls and windows
• Change background colors, fonts, and sizes easily
• Sophisticated order types including Order Cancels Order (OCO) and Synthetic Stops
• Easy to use price ladders — DOMs
• Supports pulse order entry
• All trades route over Rithmic's fast and efficient routing infrastructure

Rithmic Data — Low Latency Trading

The trading platform you use must be able to withstand large volumes of market data with the lowest possible latency. Having access to the right data quickly and consistently is a key to trading futures successfully! Rithmic provides traders access to one of the best routing and connectivity solutions. Rithmic data is fast and a reliable market data provider.

Rithmic's trade execution software delivers to you the low latency and high throughput performance used by large trading houses and many large professional clients. Rithmic uses high paced dedicated servers co-located on the CME exchange for fast and direct access.

One-Click Trading from Chart and DOM

R|Trader Pro includes a charting package with built-in studies, drawing tools, annotation tools, and configurable options for bar types, timeframes, and the amount of data to view on a single chart.

Server Side Trailing Stops, OCO Orders, & Bracket Orders

Your orders reside on Rithmic's servers with 24/7 connectivity to the exchanges. If your computer goes down, your working orders do not.

R|Trader Pro integrates streaming quotes and trade signal compatibility with Microsoft Excel. This allows traders to use simple Excel formulas and spreadsheets to manipulate data, create trading signals, or even real-time fully automated trading systems. View over 100 studies and stream them in real-time into Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets. This is a great feature for system and indicator developers.

Options Board for Futures

Options on Futures are available through the R|Trader platform and can be viewed and traded through the Options Board within R|Trader. Options on Futures are turned off by default — please ask a representative at Discount Trading about Option Trading over Rithmic.

Order History

Order history can be viewed, searched, and analyzed within R|Trader directly from the Rithmic infrastructure.

Micro Second Timestamps

R|Trader publishes all order transmission timestamps so that traders can see at what speeds they are interfacing with the exchanges. Many other platforms don't do this — you cannot see how fast your trades make it to the exchange.

Order Book

Market depth, price action, and simple order entry are all available through the Order Book. Bracket order templates, OCO orders, and other exit and entry strategies are also configurable via the Order Book — Price Ladder — DOM windows.

Rithmic Data Technology provides the speed, reliability, and unfiltered tick data necessary to compete in the futures markets. Traders around the world are discovering why professional traders demand Rithmic for their trading solution.

The Data and Order Routing Engine is co-located with the exchanges and core Internet carriers at one of the premier data centers in Chicago. The engine was built to support as much data as the exchanges can distribute and route orders in less than 100 milliseconds. Over 18 major Internet carriers are used to ensure network availability.

Unfiltered Tick Data

Many traders have experienced latency and delayed market updates but few were aware how little of the actual market movement they were seeing. Most systems are unable to keep up with volatile markets and compensate by dropping price data — sometimes referred to as "filtering." Rithmic provides unfiltered price data, giving you a true look at the markets.

Robust Managed Infrastructure

With no single point of failure, the Rithmic network operates on a fully redundant, professionally managed infrastructure monitored around-the-clock by the industry's leading engineers. Co-located on the same floor as the major exchanges, the data center provides the ultimate routing and connectivity solution.

Evolving Technology

Staying on the leading edge of speed and reliability means constant research and development of new network, hardware and software technologies. Rithmic is constantly searching for and testing new solutions to provide a faster and more robust means of processing and transporting data.

Rithmic | API

R|API is a collection of C++ and .NET software libraries and interface definitions. Developers and screen designers incorporate R|API into their proprietary software to gain access to R|Trade Execution Platform. R|API™ provides its callers with a normalized view of market data, reference data, and order and execution reports across all supported exchanges, with µsecond timestamp granularity.

Rithmic Futures Symbol Format

Rithmic uses a standardized symbol format for all futures contracts. All symbols are in CAPS with no spaces.

Full Contract: PRODUCT + MONTH + YEAR + .EXCHANGE
Front Month (Most Common): PRODUCT.EXCHANGE

Month Codes

Code	Month	Code	Month	Code	Month
F	January	G	February	H	March
J	April	K	May	M	June
N	July	Q	August	U	September
V	October	X	November	Z	December

Year Code: Last digit of the year (2026 = 6)

Symbol Examples

Contract	Full Contract Example	Front Month Example
E-mini S&P 500	ESU6.CME	ES.CME
Micro E-mini S&P 500	MESU6.CME	MES.CME
Mini Dow	YMU6.CBOT	YM.CBOT
Micro Mini Dow	MYMU6.CBOT	MYM.CBOT
E-mini Nasdaq	MNQH6.CME	MNQ.CME
Crude Oil	CLU6.NYMEX	CL.NYMEX
Gold	GCZ6.COMEX	GC.COMEX

The Rithmic Advantage

Rithmic puts your trades first. Whether you are a beginner or a professional trader, Rithmic's trade execution software delivers to you the low latency and high throughput performance formerly seen only by the very large trading houses and boutique hedge funds.

Build and Deploy Your Own Systems

Build your own trading programs with R|API or R|API+, or build them over FIX. Deploy them on your machines co-located with our equipment and servers.

R|Trade Execution Platform

Connect your trading programs to R|Trade Execution Platform™ — our fully hosted multi-asset trade execution platform. Or reserve a deployment for your exclusive use in your data center or in ours. Rithmic operates and maintains all deployments of its software on your behalf.

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