ORC TRADING FOR ALGORITHMIC TRADING

AUTOMATED TRADING FOR GREATER PROFITABILITY Detect price changes. Make fast trading decisions. Trade automatically.

With today’s markets moving at such a rapid pace, many traders rely on algorithmic trading to automate their trading and capture microsecond market opportunities while reducing risk. Orc Trading for Algorithmic Trading helps traders profit from short lived opportunities by deploying and modifying strategies as dictated by changing market conditions. Success-ful trading strategies are easily replicated and deployed from one market to another helping firms take advantage of the latest market opportunities.

ORC TRADING FOR ALGORITHMIC TRADING HAS HELPED FIRMS:

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•Deploylatencysensitivestrategiesrapidly

•Expandtradingintonewmarkets

• Tradefasterandwithmoreconfidence

•Reducecostsbyautomatingtradingandimprovingtraderproductivity

•Leverageanindustry-standardprogramminglanguagetodevelopstrategies

•Deployproventradingstrategiesquicklytonewassetclassesandmarkets

•Scaletheirbusinessastradingopportunitiesgrow

WHONEEDSSOPHISTICATED ALGORITHMIC TRADING TOOLS?TRADING STRATEGY DEVELOPERS who need to quickly create and deploy automated trading strategies to take advantage of changing markets.

•Whencreatingproprietarytradingstrategies, would you be able to better implement your trading ideas if you could use an industry-standard, powerful coding language?

•Wouldyoubeabletoreduceyourstrategy development time if you could easily reuse strategies developed for one market across new markets?

Orc Solution → Orc Trading for Algorithmic Trading’s Java-based development environment provides a powerful and flexible language for trading strategy development. This development environment is coupled with the ultra-low latency Orc Trad-ing platform for extremely rapid response to fast markets.

HEADS OF TRADING DESKS at proprietary trading desks working to increase market share and improve productivity.

•Whenexecutingtrades,wouldyoube able to win more trades at the best market price if you could rely on a trading engine that monitored themarketandexecutedyourtradealmost instantaneously using your own trading strategy?

•Couldyourtradingdeskexecutemore winning trades if they could automate their trading logic on an ultra-low latency trading platform?

Orc Solution → Orc Trading for Algorithmic Trading’s ultra-low latency algorithmic trading engine with an open trading strategy development environment using the industry-standard Java program-ming language.

IT MANAGERS at proprietary trading desks that need to reduce support effort while providing technology to allow the business to grow.

•Whensupportingtradingapplications,would you be able to reduce sup-port effort if you could leverage the same algorithmic trading platform acrossmultipleexchangesandassetclasses?

•Couldyoumeetdemandstoincreasetrading by providing a scalable trad-ing platform that can grow as your businessexpands?

Orc Solution → Orc Trading for Algorithmic Trading’s server-based trading environment with over 100 market gateways.

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Successfulautomatedtradingrequiresnotjustahigh-performance trading engine, but also an ability to leverage trading strategies that have been proven in one market onto new markets where new opportunities lie. Smart trading is the key to successful automated trading where only the best trading ideas will survive.

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”Trading benefits when using Orc Trading for Algorithmic Trading.

Product Management at Orc Software

BUSINESS LOGIC

•Tradingengine

- Ultra-low latency trading environ-mentforrapidtradeexecution

- Java-based development environ-ment for rapid strategy deployment

- Scalable platform for reduced costs and easy automation of trading

- Integrates with Orc’s full-featured click trading front end

•P&Landriskmanagementtools

- PositionkeepingandP&Lanalysis- Multiple and custom volatility models

for accurate pricing

UNMATCHED MARKET ACCESS

•Connectivitytothemajorglobalderivatives markets

•Co-locationpossibilities

•Optimizedforultralow-latency

•Connectivitytoalternativemarketsandexchangeseitherdirectlyasamember or through a broker

PROVEN TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE

•Server-basedalgorithmictradingengine

•JavastrategyAPI

•Reliable

•Scalable

•Robust

•Fast

ORCALGORITHMICTRADING SOLUTION FEATURES

Monitor and adjust strategies

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Post-trade risk and position information to support trading

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Quickly trade directly from order ladders

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View executed trades4

Customize your trading logic

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Design your own trading strategies in Java

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Take Advantage Orc Trading is used by leading financial firms worldwide for enhanced trading, pricing and risk management on electronically traded derivatives. Orc Trading provides the competitive edge to trade from a single platform, on any listed instrument, across all asset classes, on 100+ markets. Orc Trading comprises market leading applications including among others Orc Trading for Algorithmic Trading, Orc Trading for Arbitrage, Orc Trading for Market Making, Orc Trading for Risk Management and Orc Trading for Volatility Trading.

Orc is a leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity. Customers include leading banks, tradingandmarket-makingfirms,exchanges,brokeragehouses,institutional investors, hedge funds and software vendors.

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HEAD OF TRADING DESK AT A PROPRIETARY TRADING FIRM

The Head of Trading Desk at a proprietary trading firm was using a point and click trading application which resulted in missed trades and reduced profits. Orc Trading for Algorith-mic Trading was deployed giving the firm automated trading strategy capabilities resulting in a dramatic increase in profit-able trades.

MANAGING DIRECTOR AT A HEDGE FUND

The Managing Director at a hedge fund that was looking for new market opportunities selected and deployed Orc Trading forAlgorithmicTradingtodevelopanETFquotingstrategythatcouldbeleveragedbytheirmanytraders.Eachtraderwas able to leverage built-in strategies for further on-the-fly customization,whilemonitoringagreatervolumeofcontracts.Thetraderscouldthenpooltheirhedgingrequirementsresulting in greater productivity and profitability for the firm.

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