Long / Short Trading
HTX Pairs Trading provides an efficient way to set up and trade in or out of Long/Short positions. Automated rules keep you from getting legged and execute the desired ratio with minimum slippage and risk.
Dollar Neutral Spreads/Ratio Spreads
HTX Pairs Trading allows the trader to execute orders where the trader needs to sell an exact dollar value of an instrument and needs to buy an exact dollar value of another instrument with minimum risk, minimum impact and minimum time.
HTX Pairs Trading provides tools to automate a variety of pairs related execution strategies. The software handles the implementation details of the executions that traditionally require time-consuming management by traders. Traders enter the relationship between instruments, set a variety of parameters like total quantity, leg size, and contingency strategy, and the software will tirelessly work the spread at the specified levels. Traders can execute pairs at tighter spreads with much higher hit-rates than alternative methods, all at known risk parameters. Summary data provides information on executed spread levels, remaining quantity, the current market spread and much more.
Unlike alternative solutions, HTX Pairs Trading software was built from the ground up as a pairs trading solution. Refined over several years by direct input from traders, HTX Pairs Trading software really stands above the competition.
High Frequency Statistical Arbitrage
High Frequency Statistical Arbitrage traders will find that HTX Pairs Trading will allow them to actively participate in more issues at tighter spreads with controlled risk. Actively manage hundreds of models with just a few mouse clicks or keystrokes or by importing a file of updated parameters. The models can be activated/deactivated via user-defined groupings or destinations or accounts.
Risk/Merger Arbitrage
HTX Pairs Trading allows traders to specify the deal parameters, whether to put on or take off the spread, the target spread level, the share quantity and the maximum legging risk. When activated, the software will work the spread at the appropriate level. The trader can efficiently handle hundreds of spreads.
Structured Arbitrage/Multi Legged Pairs
HTX Pairs Trading allows the trader to model situations when a company is spinning off units, has tracking stocks or merging of multiple entities and then trade the model automatically when the strategy comes in line. Multi-legged pairs are difficult to manage with alternative methods, but using the combined power of HTX Pairs Trading and HTX Basket Trading, this task becomes fully automated.
