Cunningham Trading Systems

CTS is the creator of T4, a fully hosted professional trading platform for futures and options. T4 offers direct exchange connectivity to many of the world’s largest exchanges, flexible risk management, and a suite of advanced trading components including T4 Charts, T4 Desktop, and T4 Mobile. Whether a trader, professional trader, retail trader or risk manager, CTS has the functionality you require to fit your trading needs.

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T4 Desktop Platform

T4 Desktop offers all the basic standard functionality any professional trader needs, along with many enhanced features. The system offers:

Key Features

Real-time quotes
Real-time P&L and Position Updates
Customize fonts, colors, and sounds
A charting package built directly into the front-end. Includes various studies and overlays. Real-time news and economic indicator feeds provided by an industry leading news service
Dual-layout capability
Switch between contract markets with a single click
One-click and keyboard order entry
Multiple Quote Boards and Order Books
Accessibility to all the available exchanges at no additional cost
An expansive list of order types, including Market Orders, Limits, Stops, Stop-Limits, Trailing Stops, MITs, GTCs, OCOs, and Auto OCOs
Advanced order types like market mode activation, time activation, price activation, icebergs and queued orders
Between sessions, day orders clear out; GTC’s and open positions rollover
No maintenance period during the trading week; T4 is available while markets are trading

Accessibility

With T4 Desktop, you can trade from anywhere. Whether you are at home, in your office, or on the road, when you trade with T4 Desktop, all you need is access to the internet and a computer and you are ready to trade. T4 Desktop can be hard-wired to your firm’s network or can easily be used at home via your home internet connection.

Open API

Create your own customized functionality or your own black box system using T4’s available open API.

T4 Charts

You can now trade directly from the chart. Available for both Charting and Advanced Charting users.

Chart Trading

View depth of market and trade directly from charts. Click on the desired price on the right side of the chart to open a price prompt window, allowing for modification of price, quantity, and order type before entry.

Chart Types:

1 minute and above bars
OHLC/HLC Bars
Candlesticks
Line

Drawing Tools:

Price Measure
Line, Horizontal, Vertical & Diagonal Lines
Box, Ellipse, Arrow & Notation
Auto & Manual Channel
Pitchfork
Glenn Angles
Trend Line
Fibonacci Extension & Retracement
Floating & Fixed Scale

Studies and Overlays Available:

All Studies and Overlays listed here are available in the Core+Charting Package

Overlay

Adaptive Moving Average(AMA)
Alligator
Bollinger Bands
Exponential Moving Average(EMA)
Hull Moving Average (HMA)
Ichimoku Cloud
Keltner Channels (KELT)
Least Squares Moving Average (LSMA)
Linear Weighted Moving Average (LWMA)
Moving Average Envelopes
Parabolic SAR (SAR)
Pivot Moving Average (PMA)
Pivot Points
Price Channels
Reversal Bar (REV)
Settlement Study
Simple Moving Average (SMA)
Smoothed Moving Average (SMMA)
Standard Error Bands (STDERR)
Triangular Moving Average (TMA)
Volume Profile (VPR)
Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
Zig Zag

Price and Volume

Average True Range
Bollinger Band Width
Historical Volatility
Net Change
Pro-Rated Volume
Volume
Volume Delta

Money Flow

Accumulation Distribution Line
Chaikin Money Flow (CMF)
Finite Volume Elements
On Balance Volume (OBV)

Oscillator

Aroon Oscillator
Aroon Up Down
Average Directional Index
Chaikin Oscillator
Chande’s Momentum Oscillator
Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO)
Disparity Index
Ease of Movement
Fast Stochastic Oscillator
Force Index
Full Stochastic Oscillator
Gator
Money Flow Index (MFI)
Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
Percentage Price Oscillator
Percentage Volume Oscillator
Rate of Change
Sentiment Zone Oscillator (SZO)
Slow Stochastic Oscillator
Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient
StochRSI
TRIX
Ultimate Oscillator (ULT)
Williams %R

T4 WebTrader

T4 WebTrader offers all the basic standard functionality any professional trader needs, along with many enhanced features. The system offers:

Flexibility and Functionality

Customization which allows you to modify colors and sounds
Real-time quotes
Accessibility to all the available exchanges at no additional cost
Real-time P&L and Position Updates
Order types including Markets, Limits, Stops, Stop-Limits, Trailing Stops and GTC
Two-Click order entry
Adjust window location and size within the browser
View depth of market
Watch quotes from multiple markets at the same time

Accessibility

With T4 WebTrader, you can trade from anywhere, without downloading anything on your computer. Whether you are at home, in your office, or on the road, when you trade with T4 WebTrader, all you need is access to the internet and a computer and you are ready to trade. T4 Webtrader works on Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

Mobile

T4 WebTrader is also available on Apple iPhone, iPad, and Android. It allows you to access the functionality of T4 WebTrader from the palm of your hand.

T4 Mobile

T4 Mobile offers real-time market access to every exchange CTS offers, real-time order submission, and a back-end that offers extreme reliability. T4 Mobile is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, all Android devices, and in web browsers as T4 WebTrader.

Flexibility and Functionality

With T4 Mobile you get:

tap 2 trade touch screen technology
Select your own custom color scheme
Simplified order book and account views
Real-time quotes
Real-time Profit and Loss, and Position Updates
Order types including Markets, Limits, Stops, Stop-Limits, Trailing Stops and GTCs
Accessibility to all the available exchanges at no additional cost

T4 Mobile for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

An easy-to-use trading platform, T4 Mobile provides real-time data, depth of market, and position information. Monitor multiple markets from the quotes screen, then place, revise, or cancel orders from the depth of market screen. Charts and chart trading coming soon.

To download this app, visit the App Store.

T4 Mobile for Android

An easy-to-use trading platform that works on any Android 4.2 device or higher. T4 Mobile for Android provides real-time data, depth of market, charts with studies, as well as position information. Place, revise, or cancel orders from the depth of market screen or from the chart.

T4 Advanced Data

Additional Features:

Spread Matrix window allowing you to see and trade spreads side by side
Contract History window allowing you to see trades from multiple related markets
News feed providing news articles and indicators
Up to 2,500 concurrent market subscriptions
Overlay a second contract on the chart
Apply studies to studies on the chart
Set custom session times on the chart, for example, to exclude overnight trading sessions
Chart scripting allowing you to create your own studies
Quote board comparison chart allows additional studies and historical time periods
Preferential servers: reduced number of users per server

Chart Types:

1 second and above bars
Tick, Tick Range, and Volume Traded bars
OHLC/HLC Bars
Candlesticks
Line
Heikin Ashi
Renko
Point & Figure

Drawing Tools:

Price Measure
Line, Horizontal, Vertical & Diagonal Lines
Box, Ellipse, Arrow & Notation
Auto & Manual Channel
Pitchfork
Glenn Angles
Trend Line
Fibonacci Extension & Retracement
Floating & Fixed Scale

T4 Options Pro

Options trading software for generating theoretical values, pinpointing and comparing trading opportunities, creating custom spreads, and calculating position risk through multiple scenarios.

T4 Options Pro Key Features:

Theoretical Sheets

Fast and simple setup: Create a sheet in seconds
Heat map on bid, offer, and last trade
Click trade options and futures directly from the sheet
Horizontal and vertical sheets with fully customizable colors, views, and formats
Dynamic views
Working orders appear directly in the sheet
Very low maintenance

Option Strategies

UDS (User Defined Strategy)
UDS creation
RFQ (Request For Quote)
Trade directly from RFQ
Save a strategy for future reference
Theoretical comparison
Click tradable
Heat mapped
Sortable by net edge, date and time, greeks, etc
Group by common strategy name

Strategy Solver

Solve for spreads theoretical values, greeks and OE’s.
UDS / RFQ: Trade and create user-defined strategies
Simple UDS creation
Trade from window

Portfolio Analyzer

Click trade options and futures from the analyzer
Create strategies from inventory
Multiple risk reports including slide risk, account inventory, theoretical trade P&L and Portfolio P&L
Dynamic views
Quick Hedge

Model Management

Manage models, volatility, skews and time
Valuation Models: Whaley, Black, and Bi-Nominal
Skew Models: Linear, cubic spline, smoothing (with wing flatteners), cat mull rom, monotone
Skew Building Methods: Slope, Multiple Slope, Vols per strike, and 4 fit / adapt methods including current market volatility and settlement volatility
Complete volatility and skew management: Upside, downside, pivot, tilt, width and shift, including linear type adjusts to curves
Add studies to skew chart: Standard deviation and histogram

Mobile Solutions

Trade
Email fill’s (effective for overnight gamma fills)

T4 TradeSniper

TradeSniper is a client-side application that allows the user to create, chart, and trade custom strategies and spreads.

Features

With T4 TradeSniper you get:

Custom spread quotes
Custom spread charts
Custom spread limit and market order entry
Backout parameters to protect against getting hung
Market Profile of custom spreads
Ability to open leg ladders with one click
Market History for custom spreads

Spread Trading

Place orders in custom spread’s with the same ease as exchange-listed markets. Orders wait for specified leg market conditions to be met before being submitted to the exchange, decreasing leg exposure. TradeSniper® dramatically reduces the risk of exchange penalties that result from extremely high messaging or message-to-fill ratios that exceed exchange limits.

CTS offers the following products to support all types of traders:

T4 Desktop Platform

T4 Desktop is the premier platform of the T4 Suite of trading products. T4 Desktop has all the functionality that a professional trader demands while remaining user-friendly for the retail trader. Full functionality and customization allow all users to create a trading screen that perfectly fits their trading style.

T4 Charts

CTS’s charting package is built directly into T4 Desktop. Custom built by CTS, it is a package meant for both professional and retail traders. Charting has real-time streaming quotes for all futures, options and strategy markets available on T4. T4 charts are user-friendly and easily configured to each user’s specifications. Charts created and saved along with the other T4 windows provide one platform for trading and charting. See depth of market, working orders and trade directly from a chart.

T4 Advanced Charts & Data

CTS’s advanced charting package is built directly into T4 Desktop. CTS advanced charts offer many addition features than our basic chart package. Renko, Point and Figure, and Heikin Ashi chart types offer alternative perspectives to conventional charts. These chart types work in conjunction with real-time tick data to create precise pictures of market movement. Apply existing and custom studies to these charts for an even deeper analysis.

T4 Options Pro

Options trading software for generating theoretical values, pinpointing and comparing trading opportunities, creating custom spreads, and calculating position risk through multiple scenarios. T4 Options Pro is a complete options system utilizing single and multi-window environments giving the user ability to organize their workspace and save multiple layouts completely. All CTS supported exchanges included.

CTS maintain their own exchange connectivity and the equipment necessary to operate the CTS network at multiple data centers. Hosting allows CTS to control and maintain a robust, fast, and reliable network that meets all of a trader’s requirements and more. This stable and efficient network is the foundation for a state-of-the-art front end. All you need is internet connectivity.

New T4 TradeSniper

T4 TradeSniper is a client-side application that allows you to create, chart and trade custom spreads. You pick the legs and ratios you want to trade, and CTS provides real-time depth of market quotes. T4 TradeSniper will also allow you to chart your custom spread. Add indicators and studies to help you find and take advantage of trends and trading opportunities. Orders placed in T4 TradeSniper will wait for favorable conditions before executing at the exchange. T4 TradeSniper reduces the risk of getting hung as compared to cancel/replace auto-spreaders.

T4 WebTrader

T4 WebTrader is a browser-based trading system that provides real-time market access to every exchange CTS offers. A basic internet connection and simple web address allow direct access to the world’s futures markets without downloading an application. T4 WebTrader provides traders all the standard functionality they need, such as account details, order book, market depth screen and quote board. T4 WebTrader gives you an easy-to-use interface, real-time order submission, and a back-end that offers extreme reliability.

T4 Mobile

T4 Mobile is a simple trading interface that utilizes touch screen technology. T4 Mobile offers real-time market access to every exchange. CTS provides real-time order submission and a back-end that offers extreme reliability. T4 Mobile is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, all Android devices, and in web browsers as T4 WebTrader. Available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and Android 4.2 device or higher.

T4 API

T4 API simplifies development, saving time and frustration. CTS’s T4 Desktop is written directly to T4 API, which allows for any functionality available on the T4 front ends to be duplicated on any other 3rd party application. Microsoft.NET permits applications to be written in languages such as advanced C++, C#, and Visual Basic, among others. Visual Studio 2005 and later is supported. The T4 API utilizes a single SSL connection, enabling easy passage through firewalls.

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