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Top 22 Expert advisor platforms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 57 expert advisor platforms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,127 professional contacts across them, including 672 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (78 companies); Chicago follows with 57.
This list covers expert advisor platforms headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 22 largest expert advisor platforms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,964 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Topstep didn’t enter the prop trading space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 429 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NinjaTrader: Driving innovation, empowering traders, and building a global community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a leading, technology-driven, proprietary market-making firm, we work with the most advanced technology and software in the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SpiderRock is a leading provider of advanced trading, risk management, and data solutions for global derivatives markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sterling offers trading platforms, OMS and infrastructure solutions and risk and margin tools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Powering Global Trading Since 1989 Quick Suite Trading (QST) delivers fast, secure, and reliable technology solutions for the financial services industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Valkyrie Trading, LLC was formed in Chicago in 2011 with the intent of embracing trading opportunities and technology in a modern marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2007, Sumo is a global, multi-strategy, multi-asset trading firm that equips professional traders with the necessary resources to accelerate profitability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in by Rob Merrilees, Spot Trading was one of the first entirely off-floor proprietary trading firms amongst its peers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a Chicago-based automated trading firm established in 2004.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trade Angle Strategies LLC (TAS) is a systems developer of Automated Systems and Analytical Tools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CTS is a fully hosted professional futures and options trading platform that maintains direct connectivity to many of the world's largest exchanges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Feis Trading Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The RoboSig dream team is revolutionizing the world of FX with cutting-edge autonomous AI-supported trading strategies, delivering top-tier software solutions and empowering…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Trading Systems enhances trading strategies and accelerates quoting times with low latency, versatile, software solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Born from frustration with outdated brokers and overpriced platforms, MetroTrade represents the next generation of retail futures trading.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Option Financial is a proprietary trading firm focused on developing algorithmic trading strategies across multiple asset classes on global exchanges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harmonic delivers institutional-grade execution technology, analytics, and automation tools that empower professional crypto traders to compete at the highest levels of the market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Proprietary algorithmic based trading” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sarna Technologies leverages the latest advancements in technology to respond to the growing needs of broker dealers, professional traders, clearing firms, and exchanges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bionic Trader Systems is a new Futures Trading Software provider out of Chicago, and the designer of Keyboard Trader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Automated Trading” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: expert advisor platforms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names expert advisor platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of expert advisor platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name expert advisor platforms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Expert advisor platforms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 57 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among expert advisor platforms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “expert advisor platforms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names expert advisor platforms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among expert advisor platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 672 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Expert advisor platforms by metro in the United States
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names expert advisor platforms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many expert advisor platforms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 57 expert advisor platforms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Topstep, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most expert advisor platforms?
New York leads the United States with 78 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (57) and San Francisco (22).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 672 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 57 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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