A Rithmic trading platform, on Windows, Mac and Linux

What TurningTrade does with your Rithmic account

• It reads the book at the order level (MBO) and shows it in the heatmap, the footprint, the DOM with Time & Sales Pro, the Market Profile and Microstructure Analysis, in one application.
• It covers 166 futures instruments on CME, CBOT, Eurex, NYMEX, COMEX and CFE, depending on the exchanges and data permissions on your account.
• It sends your orders through Rithmic, and only through Rithmic. An opening order waits until the broker account has been read and goes out only on the account you picked; a stop on the wrong side of price, a stop with no trigger or an order without a type is rejected before it’s sent.
• It recognises a prop firm account by name when the name is identifiable, and follows the rule plan you enter: daily loss, drawdown, target, consistency, with alerts at 50, 80 and 100%.
• ALFRED, the AI assistant, reads the book up to twenty levels, the session and the working orders, and answers with those numbers. Live order sending is the only one of his rights that’s off at install.

What you need before connecting

1. A Rithmic account. It comes from your broker, your FCM or your prop firm: they provide the credentials¹.
2. Data permissions for the exchanges you trade, opened on that account. Without the CME permission there’s no ES or NQ book, whatever the platform.
3. A 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 machine (0.4.9), an Apple silicon Mac (0.4.2) or Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 13 for the Linux preview (0.4.6). The licence covers one active machine at a time. What the Mac version has, and what it doesn’t yet, is on our futures trading platform for Mac page.
4. One application on the feed. Rithmic warns that two applications connected to the same feed at the same time disconnect the first one, and offers R|Trader Pro’s plugin mode to run several². With TurningTrade, close any other Rithmic session before connecting.

Screen-by-screen steps are in the Help Center, under Connection & data.

What you pay separately

The TurningTrade licence pays for the platform: 1,499 USD (1,349 EUR in the euro area), one-time, with later versions, the 10-module order flow training and priority support. It doesn’t cover your Rithmic account, your market-data permissions or exchange fees. Your broker or prop firm bills those, and they’d be the same with another platform.

Check the depth your account receives, too. At Tradeify, for example, every account gets Level 1 CME data, but Level 2 isn’t available yet on Rithmic³. A heatmap reads book depth: without it, there isn’t much to show. What an order-level book adds is explained in our guide to market by order (MBO) data.

What Rithmic and the prop firms say, point by point

Read on October 18, 2026 on the official pages of Rithmic, Lucid Trading and Tradeify, next to what TurningTrade does. Rithmic’s site is rendered in JavaScript: its text was read in the published page’s code.

Prop firms: what their platform list means

Prop firms publish the list of platforms they support. Lucid Trading names nine on Rithmic⁶, Tradeify four³. TurningTrade is on neither as of October 18, 2026. Rithmic, for its part, writes that if your funding evaluator uses Rithmic, you can likely trade on the interface you already use⁵.

That “likely” matters. Before taking an evaluation with TurningTrade, ask your firm in writing whether it accepts a Rithmic platform that isn’t on its list. The evaluation rules are the firm’s: TurningTrade isn’t the firm and isn’t affiliated with any of these brands. To compare the platforms your firm does list, read our guide to choosing a futures trading platform.

On the platform side, each configured prop firm account gets its gauge in the top bar. Firms recognised on Rithmic: Apex Trader Funding, Topstep, My Funded Futures, Tradeify, Phidias, Bulenox, Earn2Trade, TradeDay, Lucid Trading and Take Profit Trader.

If you trade several accounts, the trade copier replicates a master account’s orders on followers, each with its own multiplier.