new delhi 63 moon technologies on tuesday said it will offer trading software odin at a 50 per cent discounted price to enable smooth transition of trading terminals from the national stock exchanges now platformthe move comes a day after the national stock exchange nse announced that it would discontinue now trading platform from midseptembernow is a computer to computer link ctcl facility through which brokers were accessing the exchanges trading platformodin which holds approximately 70 per cent of the retail broking market share in trading software has decided to provide a discount of 50 per cent on its pricing and technological support to enable smooth transition of trading terminals from nses now 63 moons said in a releasein a release on monday the exchange said it has decided to discontinue the now platform from september 14accordingly members are advised to migrate to alternate trading platforms available in the market by end of day september 13 2020 it saidthe platform has been operational for 12 yearsas per the release over the last few years exchanges world over have stepped back from providing frontend software and have started publishing apis for the ecosystem to develop customised solutions that suit each brokerages needsin line with this global trend the bourse said it has started publishing simplified apis application programming interface for members developers to build appropriate solutions for brokerageswe believe the time has now come for the exchange to step back from providing trading frontends it addednse the countrys first bourse to implement electronic or screenbased trading is also the countrys largest stock exchange in india in terms of total and average daily turnover of equity shares