TickBlaze is an institutional-grade hybrid trading platform built for both discretionary and automated futures traders. With four integrated platforms in one - Standard Desktop, Strategy Desktop, Web, and Mobile - TickBlaze gives traders the technology that was previously only available to hedge funds and professional trading firms.
Full-featured desktop for discretionary traders with DOM, Time & Sales, watchlists, scanning, and chart trading.
Professional strategy development environment supporting C# and Python for backtesting, optimization, and live execution.
Browser-based trading with TradingView charting, DOM, and Trade Pad. Compatible with Mac and PC - no download required.
Full-featured iOS and Android app with TradingView charts, DOM trading, watchlists, and live sync with desktop.
Print Profiler combines footprint charts and volume profile for comprehensive order flow and market structure analysis.
Portfolio-level backtesting across multiple symbols, exchanges, and time zones with 70+ performance metrics.
Proprietary trade copier syncs trading across desktop, web, and mobile - and between sim and live accounts.
Access a community marketplace of indicators, algos, and trading tools developed by professional traders and developers.
TickBlaze is a versatile, institutional-grade trading platform originally built for professional trading firms and hedge funds - now available to retail futures traders. Its defining feature is its hybrid architecture: it integrates both discretionary and automated trading in a single platform, with four distinct interfaces that work together as one unified ecosystem.
TickBlaze is broker-neutral, meaning you can connect it to your preferred routing solution. At Discount Trading, TickBlaze connects to Rithmic - giving you access to some of the lowest day trading margins, competitive commissions, and professional-grade order routing alongside TickBlaze's advanced trading tools.
The Standard Desktop is designed for discretionary traders who want a powerful, intuitive trading environment. It features a custom user interface, flexible chart trading, DOM trading, Time & Sales, watchlists, scanning, alerts, and a library of 200+ built-in indicators. Trade management strategies allow you to automate basic exit and risk management without writing code.
The Strategy Desktop is TickBlaze's professional strategy development environment. Supporting both C# and Python, it allows traders to build, backtest, optimize, and execute complex automated trading strategies. Portfolio-level backtesting runs across multiple symbols, exchanges, and time zones with over 70 performance metrics for detailed strategy evaluation.
TickBlaze's web trading platform is a sleek, browser-based solution compatible with both Mac and PC - no download or installation required. It features TradingView's advanced charting library, DOM trading, Trade Pad, custom watchlists, and streamlined order management.
Available for iOS and Android, the TickBlaze mobile app delivers the same TradingView charting engine as the web platform with full gesture control, multi-timeframe support, 100+ built-in indicators, and automatic synchronization with desktop and web setups.
TickBlaze connects to Rithmic for live futures trading. Rithmic provides the low-latency data feed and direct market access routing that TickBlaze needs for professional-grade execution. Learn more about Rithmic at Discount Trading.
TickBlaze stands out from most retail platforms by offering true institutional-grade algorithmic trading capabilities:
TickBlaze includes the Print Profiler - a hybrid tool combining order flow footprint charts with volume profile. It tracks multiple variations of order flow and trade signals, giving discretionary and automated traders a comprehensive view of market microstructure. Combined with DOM trading and Time & Sales, TickBlaze provides everything needed for serious market analysis.
TickBlaze is one of the very few retail trading platforms that supports both C# and Python for strategy development — giving traders access to the same scripting tools used by institutional quant funds. Whether you prefer the execution speed of C# or the data science ecosystem of Python (with libraries like NumPy and Pandas), TickBlaze supports both within its Strategy Desktop environment.
The Strategy Desktop includes:
TickBlaze was originally built for institutional use — hedge funds, prop firms, and buy-side firms. That institutional-grade technology is now available to retail traders through Discount Trading.
Most platforms force you to choose — either a discretionary charting platform or a strategy development environment. TickBlaze uniquely combines both in a single platform. Discretionary traders can use the Standard Desktop for manual trading with advanced charts, DOM, and order flow tools. Strategy traders can switch to the Strategy Desktop for automated execution. And crucially, the two can work together — use manual analysis on the Standard Desktop while running automated strategies in the background.
TickBlaze's Trade Copier takes this further by synchronizing trades across desktop, web, and mobile — so your live position on desktop is mirrored to your phone, and you can manage it from anywhere. The Trade Copier also supports copying between sim and live accounts, making it easy to test a strategy in simulation while monitoring how it would perform on live execution.
TickBlaze has built one of the largest open-source trading communities in the industry. Traders share indicators, strategies, and scripts in a peer-to-peer environment where the community can view, modify, and build upon each other's work. This means retail traders have access to hundreds of free, community-developed tools that would otherwise cost thousands of dollars to develop privately.
The TickBlaze Marketplace extends this further — professional developers, prop firms, and trading educators list vetted indicators, algorithms, and educational content. TickBlaze Academy provides structured education from beginner to advanced, including live trading rooms hosted by funded prop traders.
TickBlaze has won multiple industry awards including Best Automated Trading Software and Best Hybrid Trading Solution at the Benzinga Fintech Awards.
Unlike most trading platforms that require you to purchase a separate data subscription, TickBlaze includes built-in market data at no extra charge. This covers delayed and end-of-day data for stocks and futures, plus real-time data for forex and crypto. For live futures trading through Discount Trading, you will connect TickBlaze to your Rithmic data feed — which provides real-time, professional-grade futures data including full order flow and Level II.
TickBlaze also partners with Databento for institutional-grade data with nanosecond timestamps and exchange-colocated feeds — available for traders who need institutional-grade data quality for quantitative strategy development.
The Trade Pad is TickBlaze’s order-entry panel on the web platform. It sits beside your chart with a built-in size and position calculator, one-click order placement, and real-time modification or cancellation of working orders. Entries, stops, and targets set in the Trade Pad show up visually on the chart, and customizable hotkeys let you place orders and flatten positions fast. It works alongside the DOM ladder for quick execution.
The Time & Sales window streams every executed trade as it prints — price, size, and time — so you can read the tape next to your charts and DOM ladder. TickBlaze includes Time & Sales on the Standard Desktop and the web platform, with Level 1 and Level 2 data on supported markets. For live futures through Discount Trading, your Rithmic feed drives the tape in real time, working alongside the Print Profiler and footprint tools for a full read on order flow.
TickBlaze is free for retail traders — the Standard Desktop, web platform, and mobile app are available at no cost. The Strategy Desktop and advanced features are available on paid plans. Discount Trading will cover the cost of your TickBlaze subscription for qualifying high-volume traders — contact our team to discuss. TickBlaze offers a 30-day Love It or Swap It guarantee on marketplace purchases.
To use TickBlaze for live futures trading through Discount Trading:
Run TickBlaze through our Rithmic routing and get access to some of the lowest intra-day futures margins available to retail tradersiLeverage can work for you as well as against you - it magnifies gains as well as losses..
Connect TickBlaze to Rithmic for direct market access with the low-latency execution that algorithmic and discretionary traders rely on.
Standard futures commissions start as low as $0.49 per side, and micro index commissions start as low as $0.20 per side — with rates going lower based on volume.
Our trade desk is staffed 24 hours a day, 6 days a week so help is available whenever the futures markets are open.
Discount Trading has been working with retail futures traders for over 25 years, helping clients navigate platform setup, routing, and account management.
Tickblaze’s marketplace gives traders access to vetted indicators, algorithms, and educational content built by professional developers and trading firms.
Yes. Open a Discount Trading account, select Rithmic as your routing connection, and link TickBlaze to your Rithmic credentials to trade futures with live CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX data.
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.. The TickBlaze platform license is separate.
Yes. You can build, backtest, and automate strategies in C# and Python, with built-in order-flow and market-analysis tools for both discretionary and systematic traders.
TickBlaze runs on desktop and web, plus a mobile app, with charts, watchlists, and order management that stay in sync across devices.
No. You can trade by hand from the charts and DOM without writing any code. C# and Python are there for when you want to automate or build custom strategies, and the marketplace has prebuilt indicators and algorithms ready to use.
Through Rithmic at Discount Trading — giving you direct market access and the low-latency execution that algorithmic and discretionary traders rely on.
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