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CTC equips its market makers to be among the most competitive liquidity providers in the industry by combining extensive education with our cutting edge trading applications and technology infrastructure. Our global-book approach greatly enhances the ability of our market makers to assess profit opportunities while avoiding excessive risk.

• Our market makers have a unique vantage point by virtue of both a pit and electronic presence.
• Our commitment to a sophisticated technology infrastructure produces regular enhancements to our industry-leading trading platform.
• By training market makers to be future risk managers, CTC creates traders who have the freedom and judgment to make market changing trades.

In today’s efficient environment, successful liquidity providers must not only provide a narrow bid-ask spread (difference between bid and offer), but must also support their market with depth (size of the bid and offer). CTC market makers possess both the skills and tools necessary to make such tight and deep markets, earning the firm a reputation among the industry’s leading order flow providers as a valuable trading partner as well as a leading information source.

• Real-time risk assessment and modeling allows for incorporation of moment-by-moment changes in the market conditions that affect option valuations.
• Sophisticated communication platforms allow our traders to see changes in market conditions on a global basis.
• Our comprehensive approach to index options allows CTC to make transparent variance markets- a market not previously publicly available.