Fidelity Active Trader Pro vs. Router-switch.com

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fidelity Active Trader Pro
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Active Trader Pro is Fidelity's customizable trading platform for the desktop and optimized for online trading technology. The solution offers real-time insights, visual snapshots to monitor investments, and trading tools.N/A
Router-switch.com
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Router-switch.com provides various brands of routers, including Cisco, Huawei, Juniper and more. Six categories are supported: AR G3 Routers Enterprise Integrated Branch Routers Service Provider Edge RoutersN/A
Pricing
Fidelity Active Trader ProRouter-switch.com
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Fidelity Active Trader ProRouter-switch.com
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details$0 commissions for online US stock, ETF, and option trades. Margin rates among the most competitive in the industry—as low as 4.00%. No minimums to open an account.
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Considered Both Products
Fidelity Active Trader Pro
Chose Fidelity Active Trader Pro
Highly comparable. Thinkorswim was a great platform and Fidelity has achieved competing against it. Ease of learning curve with training and the ability to configure exactly what the user wants to see is a huge plus. The customizations available are a major bonus and Fidelity's …
Chose Fidelity Active Trader Pro
As noted throughout this review, Active Trade Pro is fully functional for most traders. However, the chart analysis tools still lag behind Thinkorswim. I hope that changes.
Chose Fidelity Active Trader Pro
Fidelity blows away the competition price-wise and function-wise.
Chose Fidelity Active Trader Pro
Unlike Active Trader Pro, TD Ameritrade's advanced desktop platform Thinkorswim has no frequent trader requirements. It is also very advanced, boasting 400 technical studies and 20 drawing tools. It offers paper money, a practice mode. Forex and futures can also be traded on …
Chose Fidelity Active Trader Pro
Have not tried any of the other products
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Router-switch.com
Chose Router-switch.com
Router-switch.com provides us the best price. We have bought several times from them.
User Ratings
Fidelity Active Trader ProRouter-switch.com
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8.7
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8.2
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User Testimonials
Fidelity Active Trader ProRouter-switch.com
Likelihood to Recommend
Fantastic for the planning and execution of trades, as follows: (1) Offers nearly 50 market filters, including technical, social sentiment, and custom options filters, (2) supports analysis of option market sentiment with volatility and open interest statistics, as well as the day’s biggest trades, (3) functionality to trade equities, ETFs, simple and complex option strategies with extended-hours and directed trading capabilities, (4) capacity to create and save up to 50 orders and place them at the right time, (5) helps manage risk and profit potential with conditional orders, (6) allows placement of a variety of simple and complex multi-leg option orders, (7) provides ability to monitor portfolio with streaming quotes, real-time gain and loss, streaming balances, and streaming order status updates, and (8) allows creation of personalized layouts to see the market and portfolio information that’s important to you Set trade defaults, create shortcuts, and use hotkeys to quickly and efficiently navigate through the platform.
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I am not good at technology and I don't know how to select the switch, but my manager asked me to solve this task. I searched the product at google, as well as Amazon. I found the price of Amazon is better but they can't provide technical suggestion. So I searched other suppliers and finally found Router-switch.com. It's a very experienced supplier and their technical support is free, though I only bought one device.
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Pros
  • Customizable to display information the way I want to see it.
  • Clean, straightforward interface to let me quickly access information from cursory overview to detailed tax information.
  • Equipped with good security measures.
  • Very user friendly.
  • The software has some nice features, including watch lists, market news, alerts, and real-time balances. The program also displays tax-lot information in real-time. There are advanced options tools as well. Active Trader Pro is able to submit up to 20 orders at once using a multi-order ticket.
  • Active Trader Pro has many available features. Alerts can be set, watch lists can be created, and market news can be followed. Balances are shown in real-time. Each of these elements can be assigned to its own window. Tax-lot info can be shown in real-time as well. A multi-order trading ticket can submit 20 orders at once. Up to 50 orders can be built and saved.
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  • Professional suggestion
  • Helpful services
  • Good discount
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Cons
  • There are limited tools provided to help me decide which assets to purchase and sell.
  • It is often difficult to find purchasable assets outside of stocks, such as options.
  • It is often difficult to purchase assets that are considered penny stocks, relative to other brokers.
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  • It's not easy to find products in their website.
  • Sometimes they are too busy to respond me quickily.
  • Discount is not very big.
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Usability
I have never had any issues using the product, my biggest complaint is that admins cannot change their usernames and the ones that are generated are very hard to remember.
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Alternatives Considered
Highly comparable. thinkorswim was a great platform and Fidelity has achieved competing against it. Ease of learning curve with training and the ability to configure exactly what the user wants to see is a huge plus. The customizations available are a major bonus and Fidelity's overall customer experience is a beacon in the marketplace.
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Router-switch.com provides us the best price. We have bought several times from them
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Return on Investment
  • Remove customer service aspects from our benefits team to allow us to focus on other aspects of benefits administration
  • Adds flexibility for our employees which makes them more likely to remain with us
  • Employees appreciate the quality of the accounts (especially HSA)
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