The R&D division was established in order to offer clients a quality advisory service as apart from purely order taking. The R&D division is designed to provide greater diversification of trading strategies and markets traded via our trading recommendations. The R&D division is primarily responsible for the improvement and expansion of mechanical trading applications. We focus on mechanical trading strategies because it is a structured and disciplined way to trade. Our mechanical trading recommendations present trading opportunities in both rising and falling share commodity prices.

The more capital you allocate to futures trading, the more markets you can trade. Our mechanical recommendations trade a diversified range of local and international share indexes, interest rates, currencies and commodity futures. You will find that not all markets are profitable all the time.

We send regular trading opportunities to our clients’ via recommendations. Most recommendations are mechanically based and sent to you via E-mail. When we send you a trading recommendation via E-mail and we do not receive your response, we use our best endeavours to follow up by phone. We like to attach exit stop-loss orders with the entry order recommendations in order that risk is managed from the outset. You are under no obligation to place orders on the basis of a trading recommendation. You are always in control of the final trading decisions and we work for you to potentially enjoy mutual benefits.

When your order is filled (completed), we send you written confirmation via the same process. This trading confirmation advises you as to what prices you achieved and keeps you "in the picture" as to the progress of the respective trade. Orders that have been filled in our time zone are reported to you as soon as we receive the confirmation. In addition to this, official trading statements are sent to you via E-mail after the respective market closes. This means that you don’t have to wait days for trading statements to arrive in the post. If you don’t have an E-mail address, statements are sent by post and before this we re-cap you by phone.

Our clients' receive around the clock service. This enables clients to capture trading opportunities in offshore markets such as Chicago, London and New York as well as for SFE contracts traded outside of normal trading hours.

After logging in, the front page for the Smart Charts gives you a list of available contracts and the exchanges where they are traded. To access futures & options data and charts you just need to click on the contract name. These charts can be altered to suit your viewing requirements. Viewing options include short or long-term charts and technical analysis studies.

If live data and charts is what you require, CKL supplies clean market data, industry respected support, and innovative technology to provide you with the industry’s most robust resource for real time quotes, charts and news. It also features fully interactive technical analysis software and unequalled workspace management. There is a 14-day free trial, if you are interested please call 1800 354 418 or e-mail livedatasupport@cklocke.com.

For peace of mind, all order placement lines are taped, enabling you to request transcripts of previous conversations.

When you ring us, you get straight through to our central dealing room with no hold ups at reception, no voice recordings and no delays. If your usual adviser is unavailable, your orders are handled diligently by his/her delegated Authorised Representative, hence there are two qualified advisers working with you at all times.

We hold and manage stop losses for you on a "non held basis" at no extra cost. At CKL, you receive this personalised service as standard.

Paper trading is a great learning tool and to assist fellow traders CK Locke and Partners have provided this FREE real time paper-trading platform. For the uninitiated paper trading allows traders to test new strategies and practice in the market before entering into the trading environment, without risking trading capital.