Traders

10 Essential Trading Tools to Make You a Pro Trader

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The advent of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and automated trading have turned the stock markets into a battlefield. As a trader, you need to be prepared just as any soldier before going into combat in the market. Therefore, it is important for you to use the right trading platform and tools in order to survive in today’s fast paced markets.

To empower traders with the best in class tools, Heckyl launched next generation trading platform. Heckyl has integrated real-time market data, news and financial analytics to develop comprehensive platform for trading in cash, futures and options. Here are the 10 essential trading tools, integrated in our platform, to make you a pro trader:

1. Watch list
Dynamic and lightning fast watch list

For a trader, it is important to stay alert and keep a watch on the market data to spot opportunities. Heckyl offers reliable and exhaustive market data with analytics in real-time. You can track stocks, futures and options in highly customized watch list. 9 pre-set watch lists allow you to monitor stocks across different levels of market capitalization.

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Heckyl Portfolio Analytics – A Better Way to Analyze Performance

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The journey of successful investing starts with selection of quality and growth oriented stocks. At the same time, picking such stocks at fair valuation is also important. Moreover, periodic performance review and rebalancing of portfolio to fix any weaknesses is key to achieve investment goals.

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How can a trader exploit untapped open data sets to predict monthly auto sales

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Finding actionable information ahead of others is getting tougher with each passing day. Today, the market captures new information at incredibly high speed. As a result, new updates get factored in stock prices almost instantly, leaving little or no scope for individual traders to tap the opportunities. So how can a trader spot new opportunities in a fast paced markets? Is there any way out?

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Predict impending stock move using Heckyl Sentiment Analytics

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The age-old battle of between fundamental and technical analysis will always continue. Both methods of analyzing a stock are powerful and have their own strengths and weaknesses. However, in the stock market, prices are largely driven by the new information. The market participants assess the new information and analyse its potential positive or negative impact on the stock. Based on their perception of new information, they take buy or sell positions in the market.

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China’s Dragon Takes a Breather, Growth Engine Halts

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Chinese economy background
Chinese economy background

After successful triumphs over US and UK in the last decade bears are back in business in 2015 and this time they have laid their eyes on the world’s fastest growing economy China. It has been fueling the global economic growth for past several years and any slowdown will have repercussions not only on world markets but also on major asset classes.

In order to gauge a country’s economic performance, one can look at key economic parameters like Money market (Interest Rate), Economic growth (GDP Growth Rate), Business performance (Industrial Production), Consumer confidence (Retail Sales), Trade analysis (Exports), Housing sector (Newly Built Home Prices), Investment (Capital Flows), Government reserves (Foreign Exchange Reserves) and finally Equity markets (Shanghai). Let us understand how China’s financial and economic indicators are performing in the current scenario.

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