Simulated Trading

Futures / Options and Forex Platforms

Best Direct 8.0 and 7.4

When you sign up for BEST Test simulated trading, you will receive a $50,000 test account that gives you a simple, risk-free way to try out the BEST Direct platform. It takes you only a couple of minutes to sign up for a BEST Test account and to download the software.

BEST Test simulated trading enables you to trade using real-time quotes for select Globex, e-cbot, and single stock futures contracts, as well as delayed quotes for pit-traded CBOT, CME, Eurex, Comex and Nymex contracts. You will also have access to depth of market for Globex, e-cbot, and single stock futures contracts and real-time streaming charts for major stock index futures contracts.

Simulated trading is available Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. CDT.

With BEST Test you can speak with a broker dedicated to helping you achieve your trading objectives. Maximize your potential by utilizing this valuable educational resource.

• Practice placing your orders online and receiving your confirmations in mere seconds.
• Learn how to use your Order Management section to view your working, filled, cancelled or rejected orders.
• View depth of market and real time streaming charts for select contracts.
• Practice using the Price Ladder to place a buy/sell stop or buy/sell limit.
• Work with a licensed broker who is at your disposal to answer your trading questions and assist you in developing your own trading strategies.
• Give us feedback and comments about the trading system and how it worked for you.

Use BEST Test FREE for 30 Days

Pro Trader

Check out our competitive rates!

Created by active traders, Best Direct PROTrader is a powerful trading platform that is robust yet also easy to use! This advanced Futures, Options and Forex trading platform integrates portfolio management, risk analysis tools, real-time charts and quotes, with automated strategy trading in a responsive and intuitive user interface.

Advanced Customization

• Trading Screens: Trade directly from the personalized SuperDOM or directly off the Charts with single-click trading.
• Advanced Strategy tools: Best Direct PROTrader embodies some of the most advanced strategy design tools available in the industry today
• Powerful Charts and Indicators: Customize your work station with one of the most robust selections of technical indicators and personalized charts. Single-click trading from charts—applies to strategies as well!
• Advanced Portfolio Reporting: Comprehensive reports allow you to track your portfolio in real time. Always know your intraday profits and losses!
• Real-time streaming quotes. Trade directly from the quote Window!
• For the Serious Trader: This platform was designed for the advanced trader to design and personalize every facet of his trading environment

Advanced Automation Tools

• Single-Click Actions: Powerful built-in feature that allow you to execute your complex strategies or automated systems with single-click “actions” from either Charts or SuperDOM.
• Single Entry Multi Exit: Designing complex order strategies are easy with PROTrader's Single Entry Multi Exit Tool (S.E.M.E.). No programming required!
• Manage Trending and Strategies: More advanced tools such as Trend Trader Market Trader, Hi-Lo Trader, and System Tracker let you manage your automated strategies.

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Ninja Trader

As an active discretionary trader or system trader, the trading tools you select will have a dramatic impact on your success.

Whether you trade futures, forex or equities, you can significantly enhance your trading efficiency through NinjaTrader’s powerful array of analytic tools, innovative trade management features and industry proven order execution capabilities. In addition, NinjaTrader provides a complete end to end platform for strategy creation, testing and automation. Please read below about the many powerful NinjaTrader features and how it can enhance your ability to effectively trade the markets.

Best Direct Esignal

PFGBEST and eSignal are happy to announce that fully integrated futures and forex trading is now available with eSignal for BESTDirect. This full integration lets you access and trade your futures and forex account from within eSignal. The gives you the best of both worlds—robust order routing and account management of futures and forex, real–time account management, and eSignal's advanced analytics and charting in one application.

• Direct exchange connections through the BESTDirect order routing system
• Two data sources in one application — eSignal and PFGBEST.com
• Advanced charting and analytics of eSignal
• Exchange data fees waived for U.S. electronic futures markets

The newest version of eSignal provides Trade Manager and Account Manager windows that are connected to your PFGBEST.com account. These windows link to eSignal quote boards, charts, and other windows. With this functionality, orders placed in the Trade Manager window are routed to exchange servers through PFGBEST.com's direct exchange connections.

eSignal for BESTDirect is limited to CME Group (including Nymex and Comex electronic products), ICE, and spot foreign exchange products from PFGBEST.com.

Forex and FX Options Platforms :

Best Direct MetaTrader4

The technologies of the BESTDirect MetaTrader4 (MT4) trading platform aggregate prices from a number of liquidity providers and stream this to PFGBEST.com clients. MT4 is highly configurable to work for a whole host of FX trading models. Deep liquidity and real-time pricing are key to the hundreds of brokers that leverage BESTDirect MT4 trading systems. The single point of access to the multi-source liquidity, along with the aggregated pricing configurations, offer what MT4 creators call ‘the purest form of forex trading.’ MT4 gives you the flexibility to configure your own trading system with your preferred execution model and risk management tools along with a customized desktop for the most efficient and comprehensive user experience. 

Flexible Desktop
Create a customized forex platform view by combining the various trading models, quotes and account management windows into a view that works best for you. You can save as many workspaces as you want so that you can immediately load the platform view that you want. Saved profiles can be prompted for automatic loading when you call up the platform.

Order Execution/Depth of Market (DOM) Panel
The trading panel of BESTDirect MT4 provides fast, efficient access to primary FX trading functions in an active trading environment. The Order Execution panel also enables you to flatten positions, place market orders, and reverse positions for the product selected. MT4 was built with “The Expert Advisor” technology which frees you from constantly watching your screens, as Expert Advisor automatically analyses current market situations, opens and/or closes positions, and places/modifies/deletes orders. Complete Help Tutorial.

Best Direct FX Platinum

PFG FX OPTIONS has streaming, competitive options prices on more than 10 currency pairs. The most sophisticated and latest forex option trading capabilities are now on your desktop!

PFG FX OPTIONS provide customers with ready access to real-time account information around the clock. Get the most up-to-date system improvements currently available anywhere, to stay ahead of the curve. You will have access to daily, monthly, and on-line multi-currency statements, with a detailed trading report, presented in an easy-to-read format.

Auto Execution in Options through PFG FX Options:

• Instant executions on streaming prices for fixed expirations
• Automated requests for prices for any currency pair, for any date
• Trade both spot and options in a single account
• Delta based margining for all accounts
• No double margins -- combined margins for spot and options trading
• Choose from market or limit orders
• Risk management features that are absolutely state-of-the-art

Dealer execution, or automatic execution? You have the OPTION!

• Fast, efficient, secure execution of trades conveniently placed from your PC
• Instant, direct access to dealers or backoffice staff whenever an immediate response is needed
• Around-the-clock account access to personal account information including updated account value value on a real-time basis

Take advantage of Precious Metals options – online!

• Unique, streaming trading in Spot Gold options for a wide variety of strikes
• Automated, quotes by request for multiple strikes, for ANY date in Spot Silver as well as Gold
• Netting of overall USD exposure in online statement – precious metals values are USD-based and therefore simple to understand for total portfolio management.

Best Direct FX Express

When you sign up for BEST Test simulated trading, you will receive a $50,000 test account that gives you a simple, risk-free way to try out the BEST Direct platform. It takes you only a couple of minutes to sign up for a BEST Test account and to download the software.

PFG BEST Direct FX Express is an advanced online, retail Forex trading platform. In addition to providing one of the most advanced Forex trading platform, PFG transacts among the largest FX spot volume with its counterpart banks of any FCM designated dealer in the world. br /> Below are advanced featured of BEST Direct FX Express that are essential tools for traders

BEST Direct FX Express Main Window
Easy to use interface that has numerous views that can be mixed and matched to customize your perfect trading platform, including two Currency Pair Views, Streaming Tick Charts, Currency Pair Summary and Account Summary.

Super Rates™
BEST Direct FX Express’ Super Rates shows all 20 currency pair in a separate window from the GTS Main Window. Super Rates has three different views and allows you to place trades just like the main window.

BEST Direct FX Express Ticker
Save Desktop space by using the BEST Direct FX Express Ticker which shows 8 currency pairs that can be used to place trades, gives important account information and market news updates. This Ticker floats on top of any application so you can see important account information all the time.

Multiple Stops/Limits with Trailing Stops
The BEST Direct FX Express platform allows you to attach up to five stops, limits and trailing stops on each trade. This feature is a valuable risk management tool. As an example traders with a 10-lot position can place 5 stops/limits for 2 lots each.

Trading Alerts
BEST Direct FX Express allows you to receive alerts via Email or SMS, upon execution of market trading levels or pending orders. Below is the “Manage Order Execution Alert” window, which allows you to customize the Pending Order Message and recipient Email/SMS address to which the alert is sent. You may set up to 5 alerts to assist your trading.

Pip and Margin Calculators
Use the Pip Calculator to see your profit/loss per a 1 Pip Movement for different contract sizes. The Margin Calculator calculates the margin required to hold open positions in real time. These are two extremely useful tools to help manage your trades and risk.

Best Direct FX Options

PFG FX OPTIONS has streaming, competitive options prices on more than 10 currency pairs. The most sophisticated and latest forex option trading capabilities are now on your desktop!

PFG FX OPTIONS provide customers with ready access to real-time account information around the clock. Get the most up-to-date system improvements currently available anywhere, to stay ahead of the curve. You will have access to daily, monthly, and on-line multi-currency statements, with a detailed trading report, presented in an easy-to-read format.

Auto Execution in Options through PFG FX Options:

• Instant executions on streaming prices for fixed expirations
• Automated requests for prices for any currency pair, for any date
• Trade both spot and options in a single account
• Delta based margining for all accounts
• No double margins -- combined margins for spot and options trading
• Choose from market or limit orders
• Risk management features that are absolutely state-of-the-art

Dealer execution, or automatic execution? You have the OPTION!

• Fast, efficient, secure execution of trades conveniently placed from your PC
• Instant, direct access to dealers or backoffice staff whenever an immediate response is needed
• Around-the-clock account access to personal account information including updated account value value on a real-time basis

Take advantage of Precious Metals options – online!

• Unique, streaming trading in Spot Gold options for a wide variety of strikes
• Automated, quotes by request for multiple strikes, for ANY date in Spot Silver as well as Gold
• Netting of overall USD exposure in online statement – precious metals values are USD-based and therefore simple to understand for total portfolio management.

Currenex

PFG Currenex offers live, streaming, executable bids and offers for instant execution. Spot prices (in your chosen currency pairs) displayed and refreshed in real-time on a single screen.

Traders utilizing PFG Currenex will enjoy access to the following:

24-hour, liquid market

Intuitive, flexible user interface; detachable, live snapshot of liquidity

Trade Status Area - to view order placement and execution notification offers unprecedented visual access to the status of pending deals, done deals, and resting orders; gives users the ability to rapidly modify or cancel individual active orders, and complete partial fills.

Advanced Market Depth choices for ESP™ - Standard (set in preferences), Consolidated (aggregated price and amount available), and VWAP (volume weighted average price).

Credit Limit button - displays the users credit limit(s) and how much has been used. The button itself will also change color to alert users as credit limits are approached or exceeded.

User defined One-Click trading buttons

Live update of average price, net position and all in rate of day's Spot trades (ESP™, RFS, direct and Benchmark); copy and paste data into spreadsheets