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Listed below are links to various Orc-run webinars covering how you best optimize your trading.
Orc Spreader 2.0 is a groundbreaking release with a greatly improved feature set, as well as a new Spread Monitor offering highly efficient control and overview for spread traders. Key trading parameters are easily controlled from the Spread Monitor while integrated P&L provides full visibility of trading activity. More advanced configuration parameters are displayed in a separate, user-friendly details window.
The new feature set in Orc Spreader 2.0 includes:
Click here to view a 9 minute demonstration of the new features.
Orc Market Maker is the latest solution from Orc. Designed for the most challenging environments, Orc Market Maker is built for high performance. Watch this 7 minute web demo to learn more about how Orc Market Maker can help you improve your market making.
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Orc demonstrates advanced options trading functionality on the ICE exchange.
In this short, 7-minute, demonstration, see how Orc can be used for advanced options trading including supporting the ICE exchanges user-defined spreads (UDS) and request for quotes (RFQ).
Orc and CME Group/NYMEX discuss market making in energy options in this 30 minute webinar.
Energy options have experienced ever-increasing volumes. This has increased the demands on options market makers as they try to quote effectively in these fast moving contracts. Staying competitive in the market and handling not only the speed of the markets, but also the growing data volumes becomes challenging for even the most technologically savvy firms.
CME Group and Orc will discuss what is currently happening in the energy options market and how firms can use solutions like Orc Market Maker to stay competitive in their quoting. Then, Orc will demonstrate how firms are using Orc Market Maker to quote these energy options.
Equity options market making is becoming more important in Brazil. The BM&FBOVESPA has announced an equity options market making program to encourage market makers on the exchange. As volume grows on the exchange, market makers can expand their opportunities and reap new rewards.
Join Orc Software and the BM&FBOVESPA for a presentation on the new equity options market making program at the exchange and how you can use Orc Trading to make markets and trade on this venue.
Equity options market making continues to become more advanced and sophisticated. Market makers need tools that help them grow their business by automating their trading and hedging. Managing pricing and volatility become paramount to success.
Join Orc Software for a 20 minute demonstration of how you can use Orc Trading for equity options market making and take advantage of changing market conditions.
As FX options continue to gain acceptance in electronic trading, the trading opportunities for sophisticated traders have grown by leaps and bounds. CME Group FX represents the largest regulated FX marketplace in the world with firms around the world trading FX options for risk management as well as for trading profit.
Join CME Group and Orc Software for a 45-minute webinar to learn about CME Group's FX (currency) options products and how you can trade and make markets in currency options using Orc Trading.
Agenda:• Introduction to the CME Group's currency options products• Demonstration of how to trade currency options using Orc Trading
Orc Software, in conjunction with CME Group, produced a general options trading demonstration which is available on CME Group's website. This demo on the Orc Trading platform shows the following:
• Overview of Orc Software and the Orc Trading platform• Overall screen layout• How to select contracts• Order entry• Spread Strategy• Market History• Risk Controls• Additional functionality including creating your own trading strategies
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Canadian futures and options trading has seen rapid growth, providing an excellent opportunity to expand your trading and grow your business. Today, one can trade Canadian interest rate derivatives, index derivatives, ETF options, currency options, and equity options all with the same tools and on the same exchange.
Montréal Exchange and Orc Software invite you to a 40 minute webinar to learn about the trading opportunities on the Montréal Exchange and how you can deploy sophisticated trading strategies using Orc Trading.
Agenda:
•Introduction to Montréal Exchange products•Demonstration of how to trade on the Montréal Exchange using Orc Trading
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Market participant interest in volatility trading has never been greater. Proprietary trading firms and bank trading desks are seeking to profit amid the most unpredictable automated market climate witnessed. Orc Software’s volatility trading tools are increasingly being called on by these firms in all major global markets to increase profits by providing extensive real-time pricing & risk analytics, order validation & limits, multi-market liquidity access for trading exchange listed options, and hedging with cash and futures.
Watch this 30 minute webinar to see how firms are using Orc Trading for Volatility Trading to design and deploy sophisticated trading strategies to take advantage.
Market making has never been more competitive. Reducing latency and being one of the first in and out of a market are paramount to success. With thinning margins, many firms are also looking for ways to grow their business. Trading solutions that provide ultra-low latency liquidity access to markets worldwide have become the key enabler for many market makers today.
Watch this half-hour web session to learn how firms are using Orc Trading for Market Making to competitively make markets on trading venues around the world.
Futures Spreading requires speed and sophistication. As more and more firms seek to identify and trade on short-lived opportunities, trading firms are looking for technologies that help them gain an edge. Orc Algorithmic Trading is helping these firms to get that edge.
Watch this half-hour web session to learn how firms are using Orc's algorithmic trading engine for high frequency, ultra low latency futures spreading.
In this webinar you will get an overview of some basic risk functionalities within Orc Trader and how these can be fully integrated with Algorithmica's risk analysis tools. You will be shown a simulated market trade visualized in real time in the portfolio view in Orc. Furthermore you will be shown real time limits in ARMS - Algorithmica's risk analysis tool - with positions coming from the Orc Trader.
For more information about Orc’s risk management capabilities, including tabular risk reports, risk graphs, time buckets, volatility curve risk and daily P&L broken down by Greeks, please contact your local sales office for a demonstration.
Orc Market Maker is the latest solution from Orc. Designed for the most challenging environments, Orc Market Maker is built for high performance. Watch this 6 minute web demo to learn more about how Orc Market Maker can help you improve your market making.
Eurex upgrade to release 14.0 will have major impacts on the technology used to trade on the most important European derivatives market and requires timely adaptation of the interconnected trading systems. Join Orc for a presentation on its roadmap for Eurex 14.0 to learn about how the cornerstones of the upgrade will be managed by Orc and the impact on the Orc system. You will also hear about the ongoing EMEA connectivity projects to improve our present offering.
Strategy trading on Eurex has reached over 1.5 million contracts per day, with over 50% of Euro STOXX 50 options volume been transacted this way, mainly as block trades. With the introduction of strategy mass quotes Eurex provides an efficient way of showing strategies to the market which has increased interest and flow into strategy trading.
Orc Software and Eurex invites you to view our online webinar to show you how you can quote, trade and save money on your Eurex strategy trades using Orc Liquidator, a server-based development and trading platform for deploying custom automated trading strategies.
Due to the strong growth of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in Europe, market makers and traders continue to adopt enhanced tools to execute these instruments, offering ever more compelling reasons to take up the widening range of products. In this 12 min webinar, Rickard Davidsson, Sales Engineer at Orc Software, gives an informal, high level overview of ETF trading using the Orc system.
Market making has never been more competitive. The need to reduce latency and be one of the first in and out of a market is paramount to success. With thinning margins, many firms are also looking for ways to grow their business. Trading solutions that provide ultra-low latency liquidity access to existing and new markets worldwide have become the key drivers for many market makers today. Watch this 40 minutes web session to learn how firms are using Orc Trading for Market Making to competitively make markets on trading venues around the world.
Futures spreading requires speed and sophistication. As more and more firms seek to identify and trade on short-lived opportunities, trading firms are looking for technologies that help them gain an edge. Orc Trading is helping these firms to get that edge. Watch this half-hour web session to learn how firms are using Orc's trading engine for high frequency, ultra low latency futures spreading and see a demo of the solution.