Every Dedicated Trading Node comes with OHLCX Light installed and connected to your Schwab™ account. Portfolio monitoring, order management, and automated exits keep running even when your computer is off.
A Dedicated Trading Node is a private, always-on environment for OHLCX Light. Instead of running on your own computer, the app runs on infrastructure provisioned for your account alone, so it stays online whether your laptop is open or not. Each node also has its own management dashboard for configuration, health monitoring, and lifecycle controls.
In short: OHLCX Light is the trading application. The Dedicated Trading Node is the infrastructure it runs on.
Dedicated Trading Node
The infrastructureOHLCX Light
The trading appYour Charles Schwab account
Funds stay at SchwabSix chapters, built entirely from real screens - no mockups, no AI-generated UI.
Common reasons traders choose a Dedicated Trading Node over the shared platform.
If your exit flows and order management depend on a laptop staying open, a node keeps them running whether you're at your desk or not.
Your own AWS instance, database, and subdomain - isolated by design, not shared with other customers.
Trim, OCO, OTOCO, and trailing-stop exits are built into the order form. Point and click - no strategy script to maintain.
Hosting, backups, updates, and health monitoring are handled for you. You provision and control the node from a dashboard, not a terminal.
Every node runs the full OHLCX Light app. Here's what it looks like in practice - select any screen to explore 26 of them up close.
Your dashboard is the first screen after you log in, and it updates live from your Schwab account. Account value, buying power, and cash balance sit at the top, alongside a breakdown of how your portfolio is split across cash, stocks, and options. If you have more than one Charles Schwab account linked, switch between them or view them all combined. Quick links take you straight to options, positions, orders, and your watchlist.
Browse all 5 screens of Dashboard & portfolioPlace market, limit, and stop orders on equities and options, with size presets for fast entry. Switch the order to a trigger strategy and the same form attaches your exit plan - a trailing stop, OCO, OTOCO, or Trim - so entry and exit are set up together instead of managed by hand afterward. When you need to step back, bulk actions cancel every working order or close every open position at once, filtered by side, instrument, or option type.
Browse all 6 screens of Order entry & exit-flow automation
Manage your profile and linked social accounts without leaving the app. Change your password, turn on two-factor authentication, and sign out of other browser sessions - worth doing on any application that can place trades in your brokerage account.
Browse 4 screens of Account & security
Decide which data feeds, notifications, and features are active. Settings are grouped into categories - Feeds & Data, Orders & Execution, Portfolio, Social, and Application - so it's easy to find things like market news, real-time quotes, trade confirmations, and order-fill alerts. Toggle each one individually, or turn everything on or off at once.
Browse 4 screens of Settings
Set your default trading behavior once instead of on every order. Turn on one-click trading to skip the confirmation step, and choose display options like audio alerts or hiding your account balance. Risk limits let you cap how many trades run at once, how much capital goes into a single entry, and how much you can have committed across all open positions.
Browse 4 screens of Preferences
Trade and navigate from the keyboard. Built-in shortcuts cover navigation and order entry, and key combinations turn a complete trade into a few keystrokes - a buy at a preset size, at market or limit, with a trailing stop, OCO, or Trim exit already attached. The hotkey generator builds new combinations for you: pick the direction, size, pricing, and exit, and it gives you the keys.
Browse 3 screens of HotkeysWant every detail? The complete feature list, with every order type and exit flow itemized, lives at ohlcx.com.
Inside OHLCX Light
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Alongside OHLCX Light, every node gets a second, smaller dashboard for managing the dedicated instance itself.
Everything you need to keep the node running, in one place.
Stop your node and it stays provisioned, ready to restart. Terminate it and the infrastructure is torn down for good. Either way, it's one button on the node's action bar - no support ticket.
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Your node creates its own OAuth callback URL on its subdomain as soon as it's provisioned, so there's nothing to configure by hand. Your Schwab Client Key and Secret are stored on your node and never leave it.
The software, the infrastructure it runs on, and the operations behind it - one monthly price, no separate hosting bill.
Dedicated Trading Node (Light)
$499 /month
The one-time $500 setup fee is waived during early access. Cancel anytime from your dashboard.
Included
Not included: Pro-tier automation tools (Strategy Builder, Signals, and the AI Agent) - compare Light vs. Pro.
Optional add-on: Dedicated Account Manager (+$299/mo)
The whole flow in under a minute, from checkout to trading inside OHLCX Light.
Still deciding? The setup guide covers every step, and support can answer the rest.
A Dedicated Trading Node keeps OHLCX Light online and connected to your Schwab™ account, all managed from the OHLCX Nodes dashboard.
Disclaimer: OHLCX provides execution and order-management technology only. We are not a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser and do not provide investment advice, manage funds, or custody assets. Nothing on this page is a solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security. Information is for general informational purposes only and is not tailored investment advice. Trading securities and options involves substantial risk of loss; past performance is not indicative of future results. OHLCX Technologies LLC is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Schwab is a trademark of its respective owner. Schwab's own developer portal and API may change without notice. See our full disclaimers for details.
