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The ASX is often like a cork in the ocean, bobbing around in a global ocean. When you first wake in the morning, it is important to understand what happened while you were asleep, to help you understand what might happen today. Marcus Today provide ...
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 don’t keep the interest on your cash, we give you access to the expensive live-market data, and we don’t make money on the brokerage. We make at most $20 per $45 subscription each month, and ...
The only online broker connected to the NSX.
The United States have the main board as well as the NASDAQ, which is for smaller companies or those that are a bit more ‘tech’. In Australia, we have the ASX, but because of the virtual monopoly that they have, they can control the companies that ...
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 all on mobile and all on PC.
The last great bullmarket in Australia, pre-covid, ended in 2009. Like the exploration for resources, investment in trading tech is cyclical, meaning that between the GFC and 2019 there was no real incentive to invest in market technology. Iress Ltd ...
Don’t have to pay for data every month with delayed, live or live-streaming options.
The ASX is listed on the ASX. It has shareholders. They demand profits and growth. So the ASX sells the data that it creates through its markets to users of that data. For live prices alone, it is up to $20 per user per month. But that is in addition ...
Convert to paperless Chess notices.
Once upon a time, the internet did not exist! Dark times indeed. You only had the snail mail. But now it does, and yet most online trading companies have not yet converted to paperless Chess notices, even though it was officially launched in December ...
Connect it to Sharesight via API
Marketech Focus is designed to be a market data and trading platform, similar to the professional platforms. Other companies have designed portfolio platforms that you can buy and sell shres through, but are not trading platforms. Unlock the ultimate ...
The interest (that you get to keep) may be more than the cost of the data.
Most, if not all, of the so-called low-cost online brokers will have you put your money into a pooled trust cash wallet, and then keep the interest on your cash. The old model, like Commsec, will connect your bank account and will pay interest – but ...
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 ...
Full function on mobile and PC.
There is nothing more annoying than having a really good PC trading platform, but then its coupled with a knocked down summary app. Not everyone has a job that allows them to stare at a computer screen all day! Some trading companies don’t even have ...
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 ...
We’re the only fee-for-service online broker in Australia.
The original and still most common model for a share-trading business is to build a profit margin into the brokerage. The more that someone trades, the more that the broker profits. So a ‘conflict’ will arise – as in, is the feature or recommendation ...
It’s easy to learn, and the more you use it the more you’ll find to love.
When you first open the platform, you will be offered a detailed walkthrough of the basic features of the Focus platform – you should take that offer! You can restart these walkthroughs at any time, via the top-right dropdown. But there is very ...
It’s a trading platform, similar to the ones the professionals use.
Trading the stockmarket is high risk, and markets move fast, continually reacting to investor sentiment and new information. Most of the volume in the stockmarket is generated by professional investors who use serious data platforms to help them to ...