As far as futures go...they targeted March 1 as the start date for futures/options. So, figure another 1-2 weeks to be realistic. But soon.
I listened to them a few weeks ago , at length, explain how they went about creating their new trading platform vs. the old TOS platform.
Without going into a LONG explanation....basically, what they were trying to do was work under the assumption that the people using it were fairly knowlegable with regard to options at this point and , know what they want to do.
The last thing they need is some heavy duty technical analysis portion among many other similar things to slow down the whole trading process.
Their only goal was SPEED and low rates.
So, they removed all of the "crap" that slows the entire platform down so that, in return, you get SPEED!
You want charts, there are a zillion other places to look at that. They just wanted to keep it simple fast and clean.