Active Trader Pro

RATING:

2.6

(8)
Overview

About Active Trader Pro

Active Trader Pro is a cloud-based and on-premise trading solution, which helps investors monitor and gain real-time insights about investments, discover trading opportunities and identify potential risks or rewards through visual representation. It lets businesses handle trade equities, mutual funds, ETFs and multiple orders. The application enables users to receive actionable alerts when stock ranges increases in intraday volume compared to the previous average volume. Investors can define entry and exit strategies and set up alerts for any price movements. The daily dashboard providers traders with news, earnings announcements and other economic events. Professionals can monitor portfolio accounts through streaming quotes or balances, order status updates and r...

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Active Trader Pro Reviews

Overall Rating

2.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

3

Customer Support

2

Value for money

3

Functionality

3

Most Helpful Reviews for Active Trader Pro

8 Reviews

Todd

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1 employee

Used unspecified

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed November 2023

Strongly Recommend For Anyone.

Anonymous

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2021

Clean, simple package with all the elements I need

I use this software daily to track my investments as well as buy/sell stocks and mutual funds. I love the simplicity of it!

PROS

Customizable to display my information the way I want to display it. Clean, straightforward interface lets me quickly access information--from cursory overview of my portfolio to detailed tax information and statements. Also seems to have good security measures equipped

CONS

Some of the views start out the same way every time you load the software, where it would make more sense to start where you left off last time.

Reason for choosing Active Trader Pro

I could access all accounts from one place.

Reasons for switching to Active Trader Pro

I moved my accounts to Fidelity, so now I can view all accounts in one place.

Todd

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2023

Best online trading software in my own head to head analysis.

Extremely pleased. For my investing purposes, it is the absolute best online software available for retail investors. I conducted my own study in order to measure the quality of order fills by placing identical trades in my Fidelity Active Trader Pro account and in my Interactive Brokers account, and the fills were identical, other than the fact that I paid my commissions on my Fidelity trades but I had to pay commission on the trades placed in my Interactive Brokers account. In fact, many times I orders are filled at prices that are actually superior to the exchange posted prices (I place a lot of trades that can be easily be measured because I will oftentimes place my opening and closing trades at either the market open or close each day.

PROS

Free commissions on equity trades, quality of order fills, extremely extensive inventory of stocks available for short-selling.

CONS

The only negative issue with this product is the fact that if you want to initiate a short sale position at the market open, you must place the trade between 8:00 am and 9:15 EST as opposed to the night before with all other brokerage software that I've used in the past.

Reason for choosing Active Trader Pro

The Fidelity Active Trader Pro platform is easier to navigate, and the availability of stocks to short is far superior to what was available to me on thinkorswim.

Reasons for switching to Active Trader Pro

In order to take advantage of the free commission trading offered by Fidelity (but only after I was able to prove to myself that Fidelity was able to achieve good quality order fills, which they can, as explained above).

Edward

Financial Services, 1 employee

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed May 2021

Stuck in Stone Age

Waste of time.

PROS

The charts and features are excellent. This was a platform I had hoped to use. However, they failed to prove that they had functional software or that they could fix a simple issue. People like this do not get money from me.

CONS

For each of the 18 stocks in every portfolio I would have 9 personally configured separate chart TABS (1 Year SMA, 6 Month SMA, 10Day, 5Day, MACD, Bollinger, 2Day SMA, Today PSAR, LowBuyPoint). In 7 of the TABS for each stock there were 2 INDICATORS added (ADX, RSI). I drew a yellow horizontal line on both (@ 25 for ADX and @ 50 for RSI). For each 18 stock Portfolio this took several hours because each of the 7 TABS with these INDICATORS had to be saved after adding each horizontal line. In other words, you could not customize a chart and it's TABS for an individual stock and just SAVE the whole customized chart for the single stock. I was also instructed to save the Platform Layout each time. Log-out was always done correctly. Yet every next day, opening the platform software, my horizontal lines were gone and my time was wasted. I called multiple times to speak with Electronic Channel Support about the fact that my chart customizations were never saved to their server. They could never correct the problem. They also have an Investor Notebook where you can add personal notes. This too is hyper-dysfunctional. It will only let you type very slowly. So, I would actually create my notes on my PC then just copy/paste to the dysfunctional Platform Notebook. There is more too, but this site will not allow.... Anyway, they did not get a $500,000.00 transfer of funds because of their failure. I have gone back to Ameritrade Think Or Swim which is far superior.

Kelly

Accounting, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Best in the business!

PROS

Active Trader Pro gives you all the information you need to invest strategically in one place. After using other softwares, I was very pleased with the functionality. I would never go back to another company. One should never invest blind, and Fidelity gives you everything you could need to be knowledgable.

CONS

Fidelity gives you so much information on your investments that it can be overwhelming and the website isn't always easy to navigate, but once you get the hang of it, it's no big deal!

Mark

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed March 2022

Chart Drawings do not save

I have all my retirement accounts with Fidelity, before I became an active investor.

PROS

Easy to place trades. Good foundation for what could be an excellent product.

CONS

- Drawings on charts do not save, so if you like to draw trend, support, and resistance lines, etc. you are out of luck. I am forced to do all of my charting in Think or Swim, but my trades in ATP, which is a real pain. - Slooooooooooowwww - No customer technical support - Fidelity does have a minimal support team on Reddit, if you can find it. Why you have to be a Reddit user to get support from Fidelity baffles me. I have tried many times to contact ATP support at Fidelity, but I have given up. - Saved layouts are a mystery as are charts. You never know what you are going to see when you reopen a stock symbol to review.

Jim

Financial Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed August 2022

Worst Trading Platform Ever. Do Not Use Ever!

I use it daily with terrible experiences.

PROS

There aren't any pros about this software.

CONS

This is like the free AOL disks we'd get in the mail in the mid 90's, and likely hasn't been updated since. No hot keys, minimal customization, frequent streaming errors with invalid data. Seperate trade tickets for pre and post market orders that de-populate fields when one field is changed. Slow and buggy, this is an insult from one of the largest financial institutions. This is REALLY BAD SOFTWARE.

Paul

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed August 2022

Lots of Features, But Buggy

Despite the bugs, it is still a powerful platform. As a retired person that likes to keep an eye on my portfolio daily, it suits my needs pretty well.

PROS

Lots of features and data available in real-time.

CONS

Software is buggy. Periodic lock-ups, lags, etc. Support is virtually non-existent. When you do get them, they always blame your computer or your configuration. I'm on my 3rd computer using this software, and have continuously had the same issues on each one. Hard to believe it's my PC.

8 Reviews