FlexTrade - FlexTRADER
FlexTRADER is a fully customisable, multi-asset EMS with pre-defined trading strategies and tactics for both portfolio and single stock trading. The platform provides real-time and post-trade analytics as well as risk and cost-optimised portfolio trade scheduling, predictive analytics, advanced integrations with major order management systems, integrated real-time allocations and cash management, smart order routing, dark pool routing, a complex event processing engine. It also offers commission management, complete transaction and indications of interest quality management.
FlexTrade has a client base spanning more than 175 buy-side and sell-side firms, including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading advisors and institutional brokers.
Sourcing options
FlexTRADER can be implemented on-site or as a fully-hosted global application service provider solution via data centres located globally.
Counterparty connectivity
FlexTRADER provides routes to mora then 200 trading destinations, which include all primary US exchanges, electronic crossing networks and global broker-dealers, as well as more than 20 dark pools.
FlexTRADER connects to all major order management systems and offers standard FIX-based and application programming interface integrations as well as detailed custom integrations where necessary.
Asset classes
FlexTRADER has integrated over 400 broker algos globally across North America, Latin America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific for equities, options, futures, FX and fixed income.
Following receipt of algorithmic specifications, the typical lead time to FIX-certify or update a broker’s algo is normally two weeks.
Pre- and post-trade analytics
The system’s transaction cost analysis offer pre-trade, real-time and historial transaction cost analysis for both portfolios and single stocks.
The portfolio trade scheduler also lets users determine the best trading trajectory for their portfolios while minimising market impact cost and the risk of underperforming benchmarks.
The analytics module proves traders with advanced forecasting capabilities for trading US equities.