Success stories
Spread trading at trading firm
A US-based proprietary trading firm was looking to trade futures versus ETFs. Given the competitive nature of the futures market, efficient hedging of the futures leg was imperative to secure profit. Furthermore, the firm lacked membership to markets listing the ETFs of interest. Utilizing Orc Spreader, the firm was able to take advantage of sophisticated its hedging. functionality, which combined with colocation and low response times drastically improved hedging. By making use of Orc’s extensive market access offering to receiving brokers, a broker that provided execution in all the products of interest was found. With Orc’s multi-asset class support and the broker’s wide product offering, the firm has also been able to significantly decrease the time-to-market for testing and deploying new ideas.