Active Trader
Broker-neutral execution, custom algo routing, and platform integration for active traders.
Custom Execution Solutions for Active Traders
At TradingBlock, we understand the fast-paced demands of active traders. That’s why we provide:
- Broker-neutral execution for maximum flexibility
- Custom algorithmic routing tailored to your strategies
- Seamless integration with a wide range of trading platforms
Take your trading to the next level with solutions designed for active traders.
Multiple Front-End Trading & Connectivity Options
Flexible Tools Built for Your Trading Needs
TradingBlock offers access to advanced trading platforms and connectivity options:
- Multiple DMA platforms: Sterling, CBOE Silexx, SS&C EZE, and CBOE Hanweck.
- Web-based platforms: With multi-order book access for streamlined trading.
- Single-ticket entry: Simplify complex multi-leg option strategies.
- FIX connectivity: Integration to multiple clearing destinations with drop copy for real-time visibility and control.
Custom Algo Services
Innovative, Tailored Algorithmic Solutions
Empower your trading with TradingBlock's cutting-edge custom order-routing algorithms, specifically designed to meet the demands of modern professional traders.
- Customizable Routing: Tailor algorithms to optimize order flow, enhance efficiency, and adapt to your unique trading strategies.
- Collaborative Setup Support: Work with our experts to create and set up custom algos, ensuring a seamless integration into your trading operations.
- Advanced Trading Strategies: Leverage tools like sweep, spray, and smart order routing for better market access and control.
Broker Neutral & Execution Reliability
Freedom and Resilience in Execution
TradingBlock’s broker-neutral platform delivers unmatched flexibility, ensuring your orders are executed with precision and without interruption.
- Broker Neutrality: Access multiple executing broker relationships and avoid being tied to a single provider, giving you the freedom to choose the best execution path.
- Execution Redundancy: Ensure consistent trade execution with built-in redundancies designed to maintain performance during market volatility.
- Trade Rebates: Take advantage of routing incentives and maximize cost-efficiency with access to trading venues offering rebate programs.
Reports & Capital Management
Reports & Services to Help Manage Buying Power and Capital
TradingBlock supports active traders with advanced tools for back-office operations, reporting, and fee management.
- Custom Reporting: Tailored P&L reports and detailed performance insights to help you precisely analyze your trading outcomes.
- Fee Management: Streamlined daily brokerage and fee tracking tools to ensure transparency and control over trading costs.
- P&L Allocation: Tools to optimize account management and ensure efficient capital allocation
Professional Service FAQs
We provide mini-prime, portfolio margin and customized execution solutions.
TradingBlock facilitates each manager’s unique technology, trading, reporting and back-office needs.
- Multiple clearing and custody options available
- Tailored solutions encompassing trading technology, ultra-low latency execution, portfolio and risk-reporting systems.
- Multiple execution venues providing liquidity, flexible routing and connectivity.
- Portfolio margin, securities lending, financing, and soft-dollar programs.
- Custom reporting, fee management and P&L allocation tools.
- Experienced, responsive trade desk specializing in complex strategy execution and margin allocation.
- Concierge administrative support backed by one-on-one back-office services.
Make risk-based margin work for you
Portfolio Margin is a portfolio and risk-based margin methodology that applies margin requirements to an account based on the greatest projected net loss of all positions in a given ‘security class’ or ‘product group’.
Unlike “Regulation T margin” (or “Reg T”, the margin methodology which applies to most retail brokerage accounts and which applies margin treatment onposition-by-position basis), Portfolio Margin accounts for correlations that may exist between similar types of indices and ETFs. Portfolio Margin also considers how conservative a portfolio may be; thus, a more conservative portfolio may have lower margin treatment than a portfolio carrying more risk.
The goal of Portfolio Margin is to set margin levels that more precisely reflect actual net risk by considering the entirety of an account’s current positions. As a result, Portfolio Margin may provide traders greater leverage (or more efficient use of trading capital), since margin requirements are calculated based on net risk and may be lower than standard Reg T margin requirements. Additionally, under Portfolio Margin, initial and maintenance margin requirements are the same.
TradingBlock offers Portfolio Margin to qualified clients. Contact us at proservices@tradingblock.com for more information.
Select the smart routing algos that fit your strategy.
TradingBlock offers multiple smart route algos through several execution venues offering price improvement.
Equity Smart Routes
- Smart Routing: Various smart routes via multiple executing brokers. Price Improvement: Yes
- TB Smart Penny: Smart equity route that allows full pricing and security type flexibility. Price Improvement: No
Option Smart Routes
- Smart Routing: Various smart routes via multiple executing brokers. Price Improvement: Yes
- TB Smart Dark: Custom smart route that seeks liquidity without displaying to the market. Price Improvement: No
- TB Smart: Custom smart order routing sends orders to preferred exchange. Supports Day and GTC orders. Price Improvement: No
- TB Swipe: Sweeps the market and posts residual to most liquid exchange. Price Improvement: No
- TB Stealth: Sweeps the market and posts residual without displaying to the market. Price Improvement: No
- TB Liquidity: Custom smart route that accesses vast range of liquidity and allows sub-increment trading. Price Improvement: No
- TB Smart Sweep: Custom sweep route designed to maximize liquidity while minimizing exchange fees. Price Improvement: No
- TB PIP: Custom smart route designed to seek out and maximize price improvement. Price Improvement: No