Online brokerage site Zecco today announced a dramatic upgrade of its Trading Center, giving self-directed investors the powerful trading capabilities necessary to react and manage their investments efficiently - critical considerations during these volatile times.
Extended-hours trading, conditional orders, and pre-configured options strategy trading are all included in the new Trading Center, features most firms reserve for their most active traders.
With a simple new interface, the enhanced Zecco Trading Center provides investors with the sophisticated tools and features found in professional trading applications, helping self-directed investors act quickly, even before and after market hours.
"Some firms have a separate trading platform reserved for hyper-active traders who do hundreds of trades a month," said Tony Leach, Zecco Vice President, Product Management. "We're making these advanced capabilities available to all investors -- because everyone needs an edge to compete in this volatile market. It's a powerful platform to help experts and novices alike make better investing decisions."
The new Zecco Trading Center is designed to help investors with fast access to research, trading and investment monitoring from a single web page. It offers:
- real-time quotes, charts, balances and buying power
- an always-visible trade ticket for easy order entry
- a faster and easier way to utilize pre-configured options strategies
- an Options Analyzer tool which displays an instant hypothetical profit and loss graph for any options position a trader may take
- a broader range of order types, including advanced order capabilities, trailing stops and bracket orders
"With Zecco's new Trading Center, investors can be ready for the huge market swings we are experiencing with the tools they need to figure out the best trading strategies and approaches. Now everyone has access to our very low cost trades as well as the complex and sophisticated analysis that used to be reserved for professional portfolio managers," said Michael Raneri, Zecco CEO.