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Our Proprietary Trading Group accounts let institutions authorize multiple traders to enter orders in a single account, or set up individual accounts for traders, or strategies with separate credit limits.

Proprietary Trading Groups enjoy the following benefits:

  • A complete turnkey solution that provides trading, clearing, and reporting capability for Proprietary Trading Groups on over 80 market destinations worldwide from a single account.
  • A User Access Rights system that allows you to assign different managerial roles and client accounts to individual employees within your organization.
  • Trades can be given up pre-trade or post-trade to multiple prime locations or taken up from an executing broker.
  • Risk-based Portfolio Margin or Reg T Margin Accounts.

We offer two types of Proprietary Trading Group account structures:

Both account types provide institutions with the flexibility of trade execution, clearing and prime broker services all within the same account.

Pool Account


Pool Account

Separate Trading Limit Account


Separate Trading Limit Account
  • A single trading account with one or more users.
  • Multiple users can view and modify other traders’ activity.
  • Master, sub accounts and users are part of the same legal entity.
  • Funds are deposited in the master account and transferred between the master and sub accounts to control individual trader limits.
  • Initial margining is determined for each individual account, while maintenance margining is determined at a consolidated account level.
Printable Pool Account Guide Printable Seperate Trading Limit Guide

 

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