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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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
57Companies
4,127Contacts tracked
672Verified emails
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The 22 largest expert advisor platforms based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 22 of 57 expert advisor platforms based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to expert advisor platforms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026n/a2,964 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Topstep didn’t enter the prop trading space.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026201-500429 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“NinjaTrader: Driving innovation, empowering traders, and building a global community.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-200112 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, 2026
4Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20095 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, 2026
5Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20069 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Sterling offers trading platforms, OMS and infrastructure solutions and risk and margin tools.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20054 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, 2026
7Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20052 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, 2026
8Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20031 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, 2026
9Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20024 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, 2026
10Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are a Chicago-based automated trading firm established in 2004.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Trade Angle Strategies LLC (TAS) is a systems developer of Automated Systems and Analytical Tools.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5011 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, 2026
13Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-507 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Feis Trading Corp.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-105 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, 2026
15Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-505 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, 2026
16Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-104 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, 2026
17Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-103 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, 2026
18Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-102 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, 2026
19Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Proprietary algorithmic based trading”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-102 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, 2026
21Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-101 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, 2026
22Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Automated Trading”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

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Expert advisor platforms based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026
16.3%Verified-email coverage
72.4Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
27
11-50
17
51-200
10
201-500
3

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
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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.