Platform is good for clearly saying margin before the trade, and required securities too. The "close trade at certain profit" function also seems like its good for newbies. I never use it personally, just seems much clearer to understand how much money you want out of the trade, rather than the breakout/pullback levels, support etc. The stats Xtrade provides for each instrument before you trade are very good. The sell/buy pressure, its excellent. Especially because you can see how much it was changing during the course of the week. In general, there are many nice features, price alerts being one of them. Setting them up is a lot easier than with cT/MT, its just a nicer system. What I don't like is UI not fully customizable. I would like to remove the bar on the left, entirely. But I can't. Same with trading window, I don't like how it slides out from the right when I'm entering trade. All minor stuff for methough, the quality of the trades is obv more important.