Fidelity Active Trader Pro vs. RightCapital

Fantastic for the planning and execution of trades, as follows: (1) Offers nearly 50 market filters, including technical, social sentiment, and custom options filters, (2) supports analysis of option market sentiment with volatility and open interest statistics, as well as the day’s biggest trades, (3) functionality to trade equities, ETFs, simple and complex option strategies with extended-hours and directed trading capabilities, (4) capacity to create and save up to 50 orders and place them at the right time, (5) helps manage risk and profit potential with conditional orders, (6) allows placement of a variety of simple and complex multi-leg option orders, (7) provides ability to monitor portfolio with streaming quotes, real-time gain and loss, streaming balances, and streaming order status updates, and (8) allows creation of personalized layouts to see the market and portfolio information that’s important to you Set trade defaults, create shortcuts, and use hotkeys to quickly and efficiently navigate through the platform.

Incentivized

I think it is well suited for planners that are just starting out and have an appreciation for cash flow analysis for their clients. I think it is more bang for your buck in that regard. The cash flow analysis can be a helpful addition when discussing client finances because it's easy to say that goals will be reached, but it's better to describe, year by year, how a client's cash flow will look.

Incentivized

• Customizable to display information the way I want to see it.
• Clean, straightforward interface to let me quickly access information from cursory overview to detailed tax information.
• Equipped with good security measures.
• Very user friendly.
• The software has some nice features, including watch lists, market news, alerts, and real-time balances. The program also displays tax-lot information in real-time. There are advanced options tools as well. Active Trader Pro is able to submit up to 20 orders at once using a multi-order ticket.
• Active Trader Pro has many available features. Alerts can be set, watch lists can be created, and market news can be followed. Balances are shown in real-time. Each of these elements can be assigned to its own window. Tax-lot info can be shown in real-time as well. A multi-order trading ticket can submit 20 orders at once. Up to 50 orders can be built and saved.

Incentivized

• User friendly
• Easy client access
• Capability to embed code into our website
• Customizable colors for the reports
• Weekly meetups to educate us more on how the platform is used

Incentivized

• There are limited tools provided to help me decide which assets to purchase and sell.
• It is often difficult to find purchasable assets outside of stocks, such as options.
• It is often difficult to purchase assets that are considered penny stocks, relative to other brokers.

Incentivized

• Customize the colors on the main platform
• Continue to build tutorial videos as the platform expands
• Allow us to manually input budget data for budget tracking purposes

Incentivized

I have never had any issues using the product, my biggest complaint is that admins cannot change their usernames and the ones that are generated are very hard to remember.

Incentivized

Highly comparable. thinkorswim was a great platform and Fidelity has achieved competing against it. Ease of learning curve with training and the ability to configure exactly what the user wants to see is a huge plus. The customizations available are a major bonus and Fidelity's overall customer experience is a beacon in the marketplace.

Incentivized

Again, as I mentioned before, RightCapital seems to be much more user-friendly for people starting out because of how intuitive the platform is. In addition, it beats on cost and flexibility, in my opinion. I think the cost per advisor with eMoney can be around $3600, and RightCapital is half that. Now there may be services that I will need as I grow that will compel me to switch, but I am not there yet and am unwilling to lose the features that RightCapital provides.

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• Remove customer service aspects from our benefits team to allow us to focus on other aspects of benefits administration
• Adds flexibility for our employees which makes them more likely to remain with us
• Employees appreciate the quality of the accounts (especially HSA)

Incentivized

• It has been a huge closing tool for new clients when we can present current and proposed strategies. The illustration is compelling.
• We use the reports feature to help compose financial plans which is a service offering
• The Vault is used as a risk management control for legal and regulatory purposes.

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