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• It’s continually improving, based on what our clients want.

  It seems like most companies put out a minimum deliverable product, then spend all their money selling it. Upgrades can be few and far between, as their capital goes into advertising, not product improvement. But at Marketech we are a tech company at ...

• You want to trade international shares and Australian shares on the same platform.

  We couldn’t offer an international solution that was as good as our Australian share trading solution, and we are unlikely to do so until we can. If it is all important to trade on both the international markets and the Australian markets in the same ...

• You’ll rarely need our help once you’re up and running.

  In order to remain low cost, we need to keep costs down. We designed the platform to be user friendly, and if you don’t understand how to use it, then we have failed at our job. But we also invested heavily in systems to manage our client services ...

• Centre Point/Mid-Point trading

  You have the option to place your trade in the ‘dark pool’ that exists between the bid and the ask. Your orders will already check these ‘dark pools’ on the ASX and Cboe for the best possible price, and you can find these transactions in your ‘order ...

• It’s fast to market.

  When you place your order in the Focus platform, it goes straight into the Iress ASX-Best order router at Openmarkets, via their secure APIs. It should show up in the market before you can move your eyes from the order ticket to the depth! Sometimes ...