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Our Solutions
Fully-Hosted, High-Speed, Scalable Architecture: TRAFiX Trading Solutions
TRAFiX is a global solutions provider for the global finance industry with a culture of support and 21st-century architecture that sets us apart from other legacy trading technology companies.
Our scalable platform provides end-to-end functionality with flexible options for our clients’ trading stacks. We take an agile approach to both development and service, enabling firms to stay on the cutting edge of trading. We can provide real-time configuration, component changes, and immediate customer fulfillment requests.
Global Trading Solution: Our technology is built on a single platform to provide better speed, faster implementation, superior reliability and real-time, global visibility.
Fully-Hosted: Log in from any device and see the same screens no matter what device you’re using.
24/6 Support: With offices in every major global timezone, email or call us with update requests, bug reports, general questions, and more.
Our Solutions Include:
- Real-Time FIX Protocols
- Risk management solutions
- Global market data integrations with real-time views of Level 1, 2, Charts, Graphs and Greek calculations
- Connection to any inbound FIX or outbound execution venue
- Highly customizable FIX routing rules and white-labeled algo mapping
- Intelligent order routing
- Fractional trading
Let’s Talk!
We are deeply passionate about the intersection of technology and customer service.
We have team members in each global time zone standing by to speak with you today.
OMS (Order Management System)
Lightweight, Global Trading Platform with the Best Support in the Industry
Our next-generation enterprise OMS caters to the sophisticated needs of professionals and institutions working within the dynamic global financial markets. With an emphasis on real-time capabilities, customization, and automation, our forward-looking approach allows for rapid growth and scale within the quickly evolving financial markets and regulatory environments.
Fully Customizable Hosted Solution
We work with you to customize the entire look and feel of your interface including: layouts, color schemes, display data, hot keys, and more. Because we offer a fully-hosted system, your customized views are accessible from any device, anywhere.
Additionally, the OMS can be white-labeled and redistributed directly to your customers or used internally as your firm’s in-house OMS.
Our proprietary high-speed FIX engine, included within the OMS, offers full delivery of order and allocation information with system support of one or multi-clearing relationships. TRAFiX embeds complete middle office functionality with CTM, NYFIX, and FIX allocation interfaces.
Our supervisory and administrative controls enhance security and flexibility for your entire system.
- Sophisticated high- and/or low-touch trading
- Integrated risk and position management
- Built-in regionalized compliance: CAT, ACT, ORF, MiFiDII and CIRO compliant
- Real-time configuration and component changes for immediate fulfillment of customer requests
- Multi-currency with F/X conversion
- Basket trading and multi-crossing
- Automated API and spreadsheet integration
- IOIs and trade advertisement
- Market making (US and UK)
- Fractional shares trading
EMS (Execution Management System)
Robust Flexible Execution Tool with Intuitive Customizable GUI
With trader-focused functionality, your team can have access to the same GUI, customized to their preferences, including hot keys and screens to provide them the power they need to trade quickly and accurately from anywhere.
Additionally, the TRAFiX EMS can be white-labeled and redistributed directly to your customers and/or integrated internally as an in-house EMS.
- New order and modification hot keys for faster trading and order changes
- Real-time views of Level 1, 2, Charts, Graphs and Greek calculations
- Supervisory oversight and administrative controls
- Multi-currency support with local and USD displays
- Multi-prime, custody and clearing relationship support
- Cutting-edge alerting capabilities
- Customized screens for access from work or remote device
FIX
(Managed Routing System)
Integrated Within our OMS or Available as a Fully-Hosted Standalone Offering
Our proprietary FIX engines and connectivity services (included with our OMS) are available as a fully-managed standalone product when requested. We built our FIX solution to be scalable, lightweight, fast, performance-enhanced, and flexible to suit you and your traders’ needs.
The FIX gateway directs order flow and integrates seamlessly with your OMS to support your current in-house order flow. Our FIX network is managed by a dedicated team that certifies new connections and monitors existing connections in real time. It also includes: Customizations for FIX mapping, rule making, routing wheels, inbound and outbound order routing, and more.
- Global FIX routing support for equities, options and complex options
- Pre-trade risk management controls
- Highly customizable FIX routing rules and white-labeled algo mapping
- Customizable FIX routing wheels
- Global FIX infrastructure with worldwide data centers
- FIX hospital for FIX message repairs
- Real-time FIX logs view, search, and export
- Load balancing between primary and backup servers with ACTIVE/ACTIVE modes
- Connectivity issues or downtime alerts
- Rapid turnaround time for adding new FIX connections and certifications
- Complete message normalization
Compliance
Reports and Automated Risk Checks for Better Oversight
in a Rapidly Changing World
Compliance officers face increased challenges regarding SEC and FINRA regulations. As regulatory reporting requirements become more complex, increased scrutiny and oversight is a must, especially with more changes in trading patterns and technology advancements.
The TRAFiX compliance suite offers a comprehensive set of reports for broker-dealers and investment advisors to comply with data-driven regulations in a global trading environment.
Automated risk checks to ensure full regulatory compliance with the appropriate regulatory agency include:
- Equity and option asset classes
- Full electronic life-cycle audit trail including, CAT NMS reporting and risk limit activity
- Clearing firm interfacing
- NASDAQ ACT interface
- Finra OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) interface
- SEC Rule 15c3-5 Compliant
- Clearly erroneous control (Fat Finger)
- Order marking
- Round and mixed lot restriction
- Port limits
- Position limits by firm, trader, and account
- Wash trade prevention
- Trade timestamp integrity (atomic clock)
- Hard and soft controls and alerts
- Sound and pop-up notifications
- Pre-trade route confirmations
- Price away from parent prevention
- Email alert
- REG-SHO
- Easy-to-borrow, hard-to-borrow, restricted symbol lists
- ISO & REG NMS Compliant
- On-close restrictions
- Emergency shutdown master controls
- Pre-trade firm, trader, and customer risk limits
- Total buying power
- Duplicate order prevention
- Price away from market check
- Max live:
- Orders
- Account
- Quantity
- Loss for account
- Order per second for destination
- Shares and consideration amount per:
- Order (symbol, side, account)
- Day
- Destination
Risk Controls
Near Instantaneous Checks Against Order Flow and Configurations
TRAFiX provides a pre-trade Risk Management System to its EMS/OMS clients which allows permissioned users the ability to control account, trader, destination, and overall firm limits in real-time, including all 15c3-5 required checks.
- New order and modification hot keys for faster trading and order changes
- Real-time views of Level 1, 2 Charts, graphs and Greek calculations
- Supervisory oversight and administrative controls
- Multi-currency support with local and USD displays
- Multi-prime, custody and clearing relationship support
- Cutting-edge alerting capabilities
- Customized screens for access from work or remote device
Post-Trade Services
Reduced Operational Risk And Increased Post-Trade Efficiency For Buy-Side And Sell-Side Firms
We’re connected to all major clearing firms, as well as third-party clearing systems, to streamline your order flow via real-time FIX drop copies and/or end-of-day files. The TRAFiX allocation module allows our customers to aggregate orders with the same side, symbol, and customer into one average price, which can be allocated and sent.
We also support FIX allocations, allocation import files, multi-allocation, default allocation breakdowns and various allocation types.
- Straight through processing and automated workflow solutions for T+1 trade confirmation
- Buy-Side, clearing, and executing solutions
- CAT, Rule 605 and 606 file formats
- Automatic customized end of day reports
- Interface options include: Flat files, XML and FIX support for drop copy and allocations.
- Certified with CTM, NYFIX, and Direct FIX Allocations
API
Supporting Connectivity for Proprietary/Third-Party Systems for Sending and Receiving Order Flow
Unlike our competitors, TRAFiX supports an open architecture system, allowing us to work with you to integrate your systems and features on a case-by-case basis. Our team safeguards your proprietary IP while making sure that your workflows and order flows remain stable and consistent.
TRAFiX can significantly reduce time to market by providing a normalized interface without the complexity of integrating each individual endpoint.
- Connectivity via TRAFiX server or TRAFiX EMS/OMS terminal
- Custom OMS interface for routing/receiving orders
- Support for equity, option and MultiLeg orders
- Route orders to multiple exchanges, brokers, Dark Pools and ATS
- Integrated risk and position management
- Real-time positions monitoring
- Manual update of positions for done away trades
- Start of day positions
- Real-time equity and option order marking
- Override order marking on per order basis
- C# and VBA support available
- Quantity- and non-quantity based easy-to-borrow lists
Contact Us
Sales
sales@trafix.com
US & Canada: +1 646 779 3480
EU: +44 (0) 20 3855 6089
Support
Our Locations
34 Willis Avenue
2nd Floor
Mineola, NY 11501
US: +1 646 778 1760
Texas:
6600 Chase Oaks Blvd
Suite 150
Plano, TX 75023
London:
20 Primrose Street
The Broadgate Tower, 12th Floor
London, UK EC2A 2EW
Toronto:
130 King Street West
Suite 1900
Toronto, CA M5X 1E3