Who needs Orc Trading
for Market Making

• When growing your business, would you be able to increase your revenues and profits if you could easily quote on more trading venues without additional overhead?
• Could you reduce your costs by using the same trading system for P & L, parameter management, pricing & hedging as well as other trading activities?
• Would productivity be improved if you could automate your quoting allowing traders to quote on more markets simultaneously?
• Would it be beneficial to easily assign staff or transfer knowledge to a new market, without compromising quality or efficiency?
• Could you save money and effort with an “off-the-shelf” market making platform rather than developing a system in-house?

Orc Solution → Use Orc Trading for Market Making and a scalable market-making engine with connectivity to over 100 trading venues around the world.

Orc Trading for Market Making Success Story

CEO AT A HEDGE FUND

The CEO of a hedge fund wanted to be able to quote on multiple exchanges without increasing staff resources. Using Orc Trading for Market Making, his firm was able to connect to multiple exchanges from one system and was able to deploy the firm’s resources towards “smarter” trading opportunities. This helped the firm to reduce costs while expanding their business.

• Would you be able to make more money if you could respond to market events faster than the competition?
• Could you capture more trading opportunities with customized quoting logic?

Orc Solution → Use Orc Trading for Market Making and a customizable quoting engine based on the ultra-low latency, high-performance Orc Liquidator algorithmic trading platform.

Orc Trading for Market Making Success Story

HEAD TRADER AT OPTIONS MARKET MAKING FIRM

The head trader of a market making firm on the index products at CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchanges) had limited ability to expand their quoting business because of a slow solution that was not easily scalable. Using Orc Trading for Market Making the head trader was able to increase his number of quotes by 10 times allowing expansion into new markets to grow their business.

• Could you lower time to market and avoid compatibility issues with easy access to new markets via a single, scalable platform?
• Would you be able to reduce your costs by replacing duplicate trading systems for different markets with a single solution that provides access to numerous major derivatives markets?

Orc Solution → Orc Trading for Market Making and server-based architecture for a highly scalable solution with access to over 100 market gateways.

• When creating proprietary trading strategies would you be able to better implement your trading ideas with an industry-standard, powerful coding language?
• Would you be able to reduce your strategy development time by easily reusing trading strategies developed for one market on new markets?
• Would you be more successful if your focus was developing trading logic rather than worrying about the trading infrastructure?

Orc Solution → Orc Trading for Market Making’s Java-based development environment provides a powerful and flexible language for trading strategy development.

Orc Trading for Market Making Success Story

TRADING STRATEGY DEVELOPER AT A GLOBAL INVESTMENT BANK

The trading strategy developer for a global investment bank was faced with the challenge of integrating complex pricing models into a single quoting system. Using Orc Trading for Market Making, he was able to use standard interfaces and an industry-standard coding language to reflect their proprietary strategy. The bank can now quote with a flexible strategy that can be deployed on multiple trading venues.