Lightspeed Trader
Direct-access desktop platform for high-volume active traders
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- No usable third-party ratings
- 2 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 0.93
- 15 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 30.6
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Lightspeed Trader ranks #17
Lightspeed Trader ranks #17 of 19 trading with a TOP SCORE of 31.
The category leader scores 75, a gap of 44 points.
That is 16 points below the category average of 47.
Its strongest component is Expert Assessment at 54; its weakest is AI Authority at 15.
No usable evidence was found for External Reputation, TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
28 → 31 ↑2.9
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
No third-party ratings have been ingested for this platform yet.
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude grounded | 5% | 0% | 0% | 6.0 | 20 | 30 Aug 2026 |
| claude parametric | 5% | 0% | 0% | 5.0 | 20 | 30 Aug 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- The Forex Geek30 Aug 2026
- CB Insights30 Aug 2026
- Compare Brokers30 Aug 2026
- Trading Critique30 Aug 2026
- Serious Markets30 Aug 2026
- Fondexx30 Aug 2026
- SmartAsset30 Aug 2026
- Warrior Trading30 Aug 2026
- Trading Tools Hub30 Aug 2026
- RizeTrade30 Aug 2026
- FINRA BrokerCheck30 Aug 2026
- Bullish Bears30 Aug 2026
- Traders Union30 Aug 2026
- WallStreetZen30 Aug 2026
- Dollarscout30 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Lightspeed Trader (Pro) is the flagship direct-access desktop trading platform of Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC, a New York-based broker-dealer covering US equities/ETFs, equity options and futures (futures via a separate efutures/CQG portal). Pricing is a published volume ladder in either per-share or per-trade form, with per-order minimums, a software fee mechanism and separate market-data, routing and regulatory charges. It targets high-frequency discretionary traders who route their own orders, not buy-and-hold investors.
- Category
- Trading
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Products
- Lightspeed Trader Pro (desktop), Lightspeed Web & Mobile, Lightspeed Connect (API), Sterling Trader Pro, Sterling Vol Trader, Eze EMS (formerly RealTick), DAS, Futures trading via efutures/CQG
- Markets
- Active/day traders, Professional and prop-style traders, Retail high-volume traders
- Countries
- United States
- Integrations
- Sterling Trader Pro, Eze EMS, DAS, CQG, Lightspeed Connect API, Wedbush Futures portal
- Pricing
- $3.99 per trade, or $0.0035 per share with a $0.25 per-order minimum (lowest volume tier) · free tier: None — accounts under $15,000 incur a $25 monthly minimum commission fee (net of prior-month commissions) pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC is a member of FINRA, NFA and SIPC (firm CRD 104369) with Form CRS published on FINRA BrokerCheck; SIPC coverage is limited to securities and to cash held in connection with securities purchases/sales in equities and equity options accounts, so futures balances are by implication not SIPC-covered. BrokerCheck indicates control relationships with Wedbush Financial Services, which appears to be the clearing firm and affiliate. Search results reference a February 2021 SEC proceeding over order-routing/'MarketCenter fee' misrepresentations and a 2014 FINRA matter with a $200,000 penalty, but both are attributed to 'Lightspeed Trading, LLC' (CRD 131703 / 35519), a differently named entity; these were not confirmed against firm_104369 and must not be attributed to this entity without direct verification.
- Official website
- https://lightspeed.com/pricing-fees ↗
- Last verified
- 30 Aug 2026
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