That's a good comparison document.
I've been messing around with the platform too. As a position trader most of the time, the DOM and complex orders are not that important to me. Some discoveries and comments about other features:
1. For now only 1 chart per page can be displayed. You can load a bunch of symbols in a watch list and double click on the symbol to 'flip' through your charts quickly, but they're all going to be on the same time frame and show the same indicators.
I spoke with a CGQ rep and said this was overly restrictive. She showed me a tabbed chart feature they are *considering* adding which would permit running through charts with unique time frames (and I assume unique indicators). I know they risk cannibalizing CGQ IC revenue if they provide too much in QTrader, but there's a lot of ground ground between 1 chart and unlimited charts.
2. You can, however, create an unlimited number of option chain sheets on a single page. I was looking for real time ATM IV figures on a few commodities and QTrader would work for this.
3. My limited experiments with the RTD feature were successful. QTrader allows you to export an individual option contract's greeks and IV into Excel, whereas some platforms will only export the option contract's OHLC, Vol and OI. I used this feature to draw my own vol skews in Excel because for most contracts, the vol skews displayed in QTrader's "option calculator" are a mess and not useful.
4. Contrary to what's printed in the comparison document, QTrader does permit two or more Hist Vol lines per chart. They've disabled the ATM IV line, though.
5. It's my understanding that any of the RTD templates available on their website (some are pretty sophisticated), though designed for CQG IC, will work with QTrader.
6. I haven't explored the position/portfolio manager or any of the order entry capabilities. I've heard only good things about CQG in these areas, but I was looking at other things.
7. For an active spread trader, the spread matrix that populates for any contract series is probably a good tool. It shows last and bid-ask at the 'intersection.' If you just want to keep an eye on some spreads, though, the bid-ask adds clutter and it's not the best design. To be fair, I haven't explored all the formatting possibilities. I hope the bid-ask can be removed because I wouldn't want to have to create all the spread watches in Excel.
