Zerodha Kite Vs Sharekhan TradeTiger (TT) Trading Platform Comparison

Zerodha Kite is the flagship trading platform offered by Zerodha, India's most popular stock broker. Kite platform has a website and mobile trading app which is developed in-house by Zerodha.

Sharekhan Trade Tiger is a powerful installable trading terminal offering advance online stock trading to retail customers. Launched in 2007, Trade Tiger offers a wide range of tools, data, charts and customization features. It is one of the most recommended trading platforms for active traders.

• Powerful web and mobile trading application
• Works well in low bandwidth
• Charts offered from two providers; TradingView and ChartIQ.
• Extensive charting with over 100 indicators and 6 chart types
• Advanced order types like Brackets and cover
• Build on top of Omnesys OMS and RMS

Key highlights of Trade Tiger trading platform are:

• 90+ charts and 30+ indicator for advanced traders.
• Open multiple charts in a single screen.
• Stock scanner with simple filters to identify trade opportunities.
• Ability to place bulk orders with a single click.
• Option quotes with more than 30 trading strategies, portfolio greeks, pay-off charts and so on
• Access to real-time research analysis and call on market trends.
• Create a personalized experience at TradeTiger.
• Free online training academy to educate users.
• Dedicated support desk to resolve any issues related to Trade Tiger.
• AmiBroker integration is available.
• API integration with other software's is available.
• A single platform to access multiple exchanges and segments.

Kite is superior trading platform loaded with many features which are not provided by its competitor.  As Kite is under active development, Zerodha is bringing in 100's of new features every new version released. Here are few key features which make Kite a unique trading experience. 

1. Dashboard / Account Summary
2. Market Watches
3. Streaming Quotes
4. Browser Notifications
5. Market Depth View with Streaming Updates
6. Floating Order Window
7. Exit multiple orders/positions in one click
8. Multiple chart view (4 charts on the same screen)
9. Trade from charts (place trades from popped out charts)
10. Order Types: Regular, CO, BO, AMO

Some of the important features of TradeTiger are as below:

• Personalized Chart Toolbar
• Trade from Charts
• Bracket Order with Trailing Stop Loss
• Pre-define Order quantity settings
• My GTD Order
• Add strategy using Portfolio management system
• Trade from MS Excel
• AmiBroker Trading Bridge
• Ichimoku Indicator
• Dynamic One Click filter
• Stock Scanner
• News and Events
• API Integration

• Clean & intuitive UI
• ₹0 brokerage for equity delivery and flat ₹20 for F&O trading.
• Universal search for all contracts across all exchanges - NSE, BSE, MCX
• Live Steaming quotes
• Multiple marketwatch and live market depths
• Advanced chart with 100+ indicators
• Advance order types including AMO, BO (Bracket orders), CO (Cover orders)

• Most advance trading software in India.
• Very stable trading platform with rare downtime.
• It has everything needed by an active trader.
• Loaded with advanced trading features.
• Get live news, research reports, and tips.
• Support available for technical issues.
• Initial hand holding is available through personal training.

• Not available as installable trading terminal.
• Option to investing in IPO's online is not available.
• Mutual Funds investment is not part of this platform.
• Reporting is part of a seprate backoffice software.
• Dependency on Omnesys OMS and RMS systems.

• Sharekhan brokerage charges are high. Discount stock brokers like Zerodha charge 60% to 90% less brokerage.
• Dedicated relationship manager may push you for trading.
• Trade Tiger is now available for a Mac computer
• It doesn't offer Mutual Fund investment.
• Not transparent in terms of fees, brokerage, and AMC.