ODIN Vs Kotak KEAT Pro X Trading Platform Comparison

63 moons is a financial service company offering its services in the area including Exchange Technology Solutions, Brokerage Technology Solutions, and Risk Solutions. Company's flagship product ODIN is among the leading trading platforms in India. ODIN offers end-to-end online trading solutions to brokers in India.

ODIN Trader Work Station is an integrated Dealer trading application, with real-time exchange broadcast, Order Management, Trading reports along with various Decision support and Alert generating tools inbuilt to aid the dealers in making an informed decision at the time of transactions.

The uses of its software have declined sharply after the company chairman was jailed because of the fraud transactions at NSEL 2013. ODIN is still used by many top financial service providers in India and across the world.

Kotak KEAT Pro X is free desktop trading software (installable trading terminal) to trade across NSE, BSE and NSE currency markets. It provides a range of features to traders that gives you complete control over your investment portfolio, provides live streaming market data, access to research calls and charting tools to analyze your trades.

Equity, Derivatives, Currency, Mutual Fund, IPO, Corporate Bond, NCD

NRML, CNC, MIS

Market Order, AMO, SL, GTC

NSE, BSE

ODIN trading software is used by over 1000+ brokers / financial institutes in India. It is a stable, fast and a powerful trading platform for trading at BSE, NSE, and MCX. Here are a few key highlights of the ODIN Diet:

• ODIN is the oldest and most used trading platform. It had over 75% market share in 2015.
• ODIN provides end-to-end solutions for Brokers. It includes Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office Clearing, Settlement, Accounting, and Messaging Solutions.
• The company offers Managed Service for ODIN. This means they take care of hardware, software, exchange connectivity, client connectivity, backups and disaster recovery on behalf of the broker.
• ODIN has integrated OMS and RMS.
• Offer API to brokers. The brokers can develop their own front-end applications using these APIs.
• ODIN Diet trading terminal is the strongest offering by the company. This market dominance product is the best tool available for trading for frequent traders and dealer desks for over 2 decades. 

ODIN had a monopoly in the trading solutions business until 2013. The growth of the product stalled after the owner got caught in 2013 fraud at NSEL. The company's fate is in limbo as the prosecutors are trying to recover over Rs 5000 Cr.

Key Features of Kotak KEAT Pro X are:

• Kotak KEAT Pro X provides a single platform to access major exchanges (NSE, BSE and NSE currency) and segments (equities, currencies, and derivatives).
• Create customized watchlists up to 100 scrips each. Create watchlists of scrips across exchanges.
• Unique charting tool to make graphs and track past and future performance of the scrips.
• Live quotes, data on top gainers/losers, most active scrips and more.
• This platform provides complete control to traders/ investors on their portfolio with real-time information and reports.
• Hotkeys for faster trading experience.
• Users can customize the user interface as per their trading preferences.
• It is available free of cost for customers having a trading account at Kotak Securities.

ODIN Diet is a comprehensive trading tool. It offers to trade in equity, currency, and commodity, all under one screen and with one login. You can trade at BSE, NSE, MCX, and NCDEX.

ODIN Diet is built for frequent trader and for dealers who place orders on behalf of customers. Other than the standard trading features, here are some of the key features of the ODIN Trading Platform:

• ODIN offers online trading through it's desktop, web and mobile trading apps.
• ODIN Trading Terminal (ODIN Diet) is the most powerful and popular trading terminal for the desktop.
• ODIN offers access to all asset classes at multiple exchanges.
• ODIN has an integrated OMS and RMS which makes it fast, stable and reliable.
• It has integrated DP and back office.
• ODIN is also offered as managed services. This means the broker doesn't have to bother about maintaining the trading platform. This results in far less downtime.
• Plug-ins are available for advanced users.
• 3rd party plug-ins can be installed on ODIN. This feature is not available on other trading platforms.
• It supports multiple market depth windows
• It allows the user to create custom indicators that are now possible in NSE NOW and Omnesys NEST.

Kotak KEAT ProX key features:

• Keep track on a minute by minute performance of the portfolio, get notifications on transaction made, check profit/loss status and view positions.
• Create multiple watchlists and track your favourite scrips in real-time.
• Get live updates and stock recommendations from Research analysts.
• Use unique charting tools to track the past and future performance of the selected scrips.
• Basket order option to place multiple orders.
• Users can download different types of reports on order status, P&L, Open positions, ledger and capital gains etc.

• Robust and stable trading platform. Trusted by over 800 brokers for 20 years.
• Advanced charts and advance order types are available.
• Allow customers to create custom indicators.

• Advance trading software for high frequency traders.
• 30+ technical indicator
• 5 chart types
• Customizable watchlist
• Real-time market access
• Facility to invest in IPO and Mutual Fund online

• The parent company is in trouble because of the fraud at NSEL.
• This trading platform is not offered by any discount broker.
• Features like Back-Testing, Semi Algo Trading, Bracket Orders are missing
• Slow in adopting new technology, especially in front-end of the application.
• Longer turnaround time in incorporating new feature.

• KEAT Pro doesn't offer commodity trading services and API integration.