RakutenSecurities will add a feature to its “MARKET SPEED II” desktop platform on July19 that shows customers where their own orders sit in a stock's queue in realtime. The brokercalls the tool, named “OrderBoost,” an industry first, though it defines thatclaim narrowly and says a related business-model patent is still pending.Thecompany, part of internet conglomerate Rakuten Group, said OrderBoost breaksthe standard order book, known in Japan as the “ita,” into individual ordersinstead of showing only the combined size resting at each price. RakutenSecurities and its rivals have been competing for a new generation ofJapanese investors,and the broker's account base crossed 14 million in April.What OrderBoost ShowsTradersOrderBoosthas three parts, according to the firm. An "Order Indicator" displaysthe book order by order as bars, which the company said helps traders readlarge-investor activity and the balance of supply and demand. An"Order Book List" shows every order resting at a chosen price, withquantities, in the sequence they were placed, so a customer can gauge how fartheir own order is from execution.A thirdcomponent counts corrections and cancellations for each stock in real time. Rakuten Securities said heavy order churn can point toalgorithmic activity from large investors, a reading it framed as referenceinformation rather than a confirmed signal. The brokerdid not disclose how it calculates or verifies the queue position it displays.That lastpoint matters, because queue position from tools like this is generally anestimate that leans on the quality of the underlying data, not a guaranteedexact rank.The Idea Is New in Japan,Not WorldwideShowing atrader their place in the line at a given price is well-worn ground outsideJapanese retail broking. Bookmap, acharting platform used by futures and active traders, has for years displayedan approximate queue position built from order-by-order data, and it openlyflags that the accuracy depends on the feed behind it.Exchangeshave built similar visibility into their own infrastructure. CME'smarket-by-order feed lets a participant locate their order in the queue usinganonymous identifiers, while Cboe's EDGX equities exchange tags retail orderson its market data feed so other traders can gauge their position. WhatRakuten is doing is packaging that kind of view for mainstream retail equityinvestors on a domestic-stock desktop tool.Rakuten's"first" is scoped in a footnote to the five largest Japanese onlinebrokers by account count, SBI, Matsui, Monex, Mitsubishi UFJ eSmart and itself,and it rests on the company's own comparison as of July 6. Domesticrivals have been leaning on other products. SBI Securities launched cryptocontracts for difference in September 2025, its first crypto product, and Monex haspushed its own US and digital-asset lineup.On its ownside, Rakuten has invested in a 24-hour US stock venue and rolled out AI research tools.With commissions on domestic equities already driven to zero, data featureshave become one of the few ways left for these brokers to stand apart.Free Access Tied to MarginTradingOrderBoostwill be free for customers who make five or more domestic margin trades in amonth, with access running from the day after they hit that threshold throughthe end of the following month, the company said. From July 19 to the end ofAugust, Rakuten will open the tool to all account holders regardless of tradecount as a trial.MARKETSPEED II, first released in 2018, is a Windows desktop platform that handlesdomestic and US stocks and CFDs, with algorithmic order types and multi-windowlayouts. Rakuten haskept adding functions to its trading tools, including pre-market and after-hours UStrading earlierthis year. The broker,which describes itself as a "partner in asset building," did not saywhether it plans to bring OrderBoost to its mobile app.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.