Overview

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TradeVec

TradeVec Overview

vCap Future’s newest offering, TradeVec, combines a customizable interface, robust functionality, pleasing aesthetics, and ergonomic design to provide one of the most complete execution and charting software to date. We believe TradeVec’s powerful engine (DataVec) provides one of the fastest and most reliable data and execution interfaces available in trading today. TradeVec is a very impressive combination of professional quality execution combined with world-class charting and analytics.

vCap’s Role in TradeVec Development, Webinars and Support

TradeVec is a product 4 years in the making and vCap Futures is proud to offer TradeVec as our premier online futures trading platform. The vCap team served as beta testers and technical consultants in the early stage designing of the interface layout and functionality of TradeVec. Because the vCap team is intimately aware of TradeVec’s functionality, exchange connectivity and back-office support, we believe our expertise is a great resource for our online futures trading clients and prospective commodity futures clients that seek guidance on how to use TradeVec with their online futures trading strategies or automated futures trading needs.

Periodic webinars are available and open to the public for live demonstrations of TradeVec, and on-going classes will be made available to our clients as dictated by demand. One-on-one classes are available under certain circumstances. Ongoing full direct support is available for Automated Trading API users*. If you would like to request a specific time, please contact us.

* Negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Higher volume, commission rates, or other service fees may apply.

Analysis

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TradeVec – Analysis

Until now, only select institutional futures traders typically had access to the most advanced, sophisticated trading analysis tools available, usually offered at a premium price. With TradeVec, any trader can now utilize we what believe to be the most innovative and precise analysis tools available on the market, at an affordable cost.

In the end, TradeVec introduces a comprehensive range of objective analysis modules including Indicator Maps, Market Profile, Vertical Bar Pattern Recognition, Price Projection and Multiple Time Frame Overlay. TradeVec’s analysis tools function as a precise, intuitive means for you to identify higher-quality trade setups and make sound trading decisions much more quickly than ever before:

  • Charting includes hundreds of stock indicators with customizable alerts
  • Activate user definable alerts for each indicator
  • Select from a wide range of alert messaging styles including tab flash, tab jump-to-top, alert messaging window, and sounds with full control duration of alert
  • Customize the parameter inputs, display outputs, scaling and calculation frequency
  • User awareness detection quickly deactivates alerts and allows you to focus on the analysis
  • One click to activate, deactivate and repeat an alert condition
  • Track alerts across multiple workspaces and windows in Alert Center
  • Utilize broad series of propriety indicators exclusively available to TradeVec users
  • Select from over 300 customizable sets of technical indicators (Hundreds of popular indicators are included and TradeVec continuously adds new indicators in response to user requests.)

* Currently there are over 70 released in the beta version. The remainder will be released when TradeVec completes beta.

We believe that successful trading today depends largely on subjective data synthesis and TradeVec has developed a trading platform with extensive analysis capabilities based largely on adopting an objective approach to derive precise, fact-based trading intelligence to support your futures trading decisions. TradeVec has introduced a comprehensive range of objective technical analysis modules including Indicator Maps, Market Profile, Vertical Bar Pattern Recognition, Price Projection and Multiple Time Frame Overlay.

TradeVec’s innovative Indicator Maps offer arguably the world’s first real time statistical analysis of an indicator in relation to its underlying data series, providing an instant visual heat map of expected performance. The statically generated maps provide a deeper insight into the true nature and value of an indicator on any given data set, helping you make more objective trading decisions. TradeVec’s solutions feature highly advanced market profiling tools to give you insight into buyer/seller activity such as multiple compressions displays, candlestick statistical analysis and more.

Charting

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TradeVec – Charting

TradeVec combines world-class charting with near-zero latency execution (*subject to market conditions) so that professional traders no longer require separate analytics platforms and execution platforms, thereby lowering costs and improving efficiency.

As the marketplace continues to evolve, futures traders and money managers require more sophisticated futures trading tools and expertise to maintain and improve their financial performance. TradeVec has have implemented an effective suite of innovative futures charting and visualization. Providing intuitive charting capabilities such as integrated execution, market depth column, auto-adapting scales, customizable user interface and hundreds of indicators, TradeVec is designed to help you and your unique trading style achieve optimum performance.

Additionally, TradeVec’s patent-pending Chart Manager is designed to streamline data management and enable you to create, edit and organize chart windows across multiple monitors easily and efficiently. Charting visualization solutions feature over 50 distinct drawing tools, a quote window, a time and sales window as well as user definable alerts. Advanced charting and data visualization tools give sophisticated traders the insight needed to make the most informed, timely trading decisions possible.

TradeVec offers chart window management across multiple monitors from one central location. From symbol selection to scale colors and styles, every aspect of your chart display can be easily accessed from this innovative user interface.

  • Combine linear and non-linear data formats in one chart region (for example – Tick, Minute and Equal Range charts can be overlaid in the same region)
  • Expand and contract price scale vertically with the right mouse click
  • Display two independent scales stimulatingly simultaneously for 2 symbols

Over 50 fully customizable drawing tools. Each drawing tool is equipped with user definable alerts. The following drawing tools are currently available:

Market Profile:

  • Trend Distribution Profile
  • Price Distribution Trend Profile
  • Volume Distribution Trend Profile
  • Time Distribution Profile
  • Price Distribution Time Profile
  • Volume Distribution Time Profile

Channels:

  • Regression Channel
  • Narrow Channel
  • Inclining, Declining Channel
  • Wedge

Shapes, Text, Signs and Notations:

  • Text
  • Notation Arrow
  • Horizontal Line
  • Vertical line
  • Cross Hair
  • Arc
  • Rectangle
  • Eclipse
  • Up, Down, Left, Right Arrows

Calculators:

  • Risk-Reward Calculator
  • Time Calculator
  • Price Calculator
Trend and Swing Lines:

  • Trendline
  • Extreme
  • Fixed Point
  • Regression
  • Screen Angle
  • Gann Angle
  • Parallel
  • Mirror
  • Pitchfork:
  • Andrew Pitchfork
  • Schiff Pitchfork
  • Manual Swing Lines

Fibonacci, Gann and Other Cycles:

  • Support Resistance Lines
  • Swing Retracement
  • Price Extension
  • Speed Fan
  • Speed Arc
  • Gann Fan
  • Time Extensions
  • Fibonacci Cycles
  • Fibonacci Spiral
  • Moon Cycle
  • Standard Cycle

Data

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TradeVec – Data

The DataVec server provides real-time futures data collection and distribution, low latency performance (*subject to market conditions), FIX messaging, historical ticker plant, and multi feed connectivity. We We believe TradeVec’s cutting-edge infrastructure exemplifies the most recent achievements in modern futures trading platform coding and technology.

The DataVec Server facilitates multiple simultaneous connections to futures data sources and integrates them into a single, unified user interface allowing you to make critical trading decisions, perform market simulations, and analyze thousands of trades every second. Furthermore, with an integrated and highly optimized FIX Engine, you have access to high-speed execution direct from the global futures exchanges.

DataVec’s Key Features – Extreme Performance Multi-Asset Data Server:

  • Optimized for ultra low-latency processing of streaming event data at throughput rates of over ten thousand messages per second on the average dual core PC
  • Complex Event Processing (CEP) architecture to assimilate many different data sources and data event types in one centralized database
  • Multi threaded architecture with support for both 32bit and 64bit operating systems
  • Distributed TCP/IP based communication protocol allowing DataVec and TradeVec applications to run on separate dedicated machines to maximize performance and throughput

Data Management

  • Full data management capabilities such as editing, deleting and adding to collected data
  • Meta Data Management
  • Search, edit and update data for any futures symbol
  • Automatic meta data refreshing (from supported futures data feeds)
  • Manage, edit and customize futures symbol sessions
  • Customize all futures symbol meta data
  • Real-time tick filter
  • Low latency tick filters to capture and remove erroneous data spikes (*subject to market conditions),
  • Choose from a range of dynamic algorithms to identify bad ticks
  • Apply filters to each futures symbol or to an entire portfolio

Comprehensive range of data compressions – DataVec currently supports all common data compressions, including Tick, OHLC Bars, Volume Bars, Equal Range Bars, Momentum, N Bar Break, Renko, and Kagi. A plug-in based data transform architecture enables creating any type of data compression based on user definable rules or algorithms.

Execution

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TradeVec – Execution

Market volatility and volume is increasing and it has never been more critical that your trading platform can keep you ahead. TradeVec’s underlying messaging infrastructure is designed to support today’s record volumes and keep latency to the absolute minimum.

  • TradeVec’s advanced visual post-trade management interface offers one click execution powered with Algorithmic Trading including highly intuitive visual management, chart trading, OCOs and other order algorithms, integrated market depth and profiles.
  • Featuring near zero-latency (*subject to market conditions), visual order management and a customizable user interface that intuitively anticipates your next move, Execution Zones provides you with a high speed order entry system designed to help maximize your efficiency. When combined with your ability to implement pre-defined automated execution and risk control algorithms, TradeVec will help you to trade at your highest level of performance. Execution Zones helps you trade faster, more cost effectively and with controlled risk (*subject to market conditions).
  • View all active orders and open positions clearly on the chart Execution Zones and the Tracking Center. Each order type can be displayed in their own columns or can be combined with the chart price scale.
  • Single Click Order Entry allows you to join the bid or offer at your default quantity with one click. Market, Limit, Stop orders can be placed with single click and Stop Limit orders requires just 2 clicks.
  • Place any number of orders and easily alter the order type by simply moving the mouse over the appropriate price level on the Execution Zones. The movement of the mouse is tracked relative to the last trade on the chart, and order types are automatically adjusted helping to ensure order placement accuracy and avoiding common errors. This allows you to automatically switch between stop orders and limit orders for buys and sells.
  • Toggle between a number of modes which allow you to quickly place and adjust orders giving providing unprecedented control over order placement.
  • Adjust Limits, Stop Limits and Stop Orders using drag and drop of order Price Boxes to new price level. Once the Price Box is dropped, appropriate orders are instantly sent to the exchange to adjust active orders.
  • Exit your entire position or partial position quickly with single click, enabling greater control to manage profits and control risk.

TradeVec’s Automated Trading API also offers Zero Configuration Setup, Automation Risk Control, Integration with any 3rd party application, Multi Strategy to Multi Account, Visual trade management, near seamless integration with platforms such as Tradestation, Metatrader, eSignal, Microsoft Excel, and any software able to access DLLs utilizing near zero-latency FIX messaging. You can utilize your existing strategy generation software to execute orders on TradeVec. Advanced visual post-trade management interface. One Click execution powered with Algorithmic Trading and much more… including highly intuitive visual management, chart trading, one click order entry, OCOs and other order algorithms, integrated market depth and profile.

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