Since its inception, CTC has been acutely aware that rapid evolution has always been a key variable inherent to the derivatives industry. Accordingly, we have committed to make our software agile and adaptive to handle new products or concepts. We have invested heavily in both our technological infrastructure and software development, convinced that superior technology represents a necessary component of today’s top liquidity providers.

• Our infrastructure enables us to handle trading in a diverse number of products which are distinguished by their duration (one-day versus five-year), their underlying instrument (equity index options versus natural gas options), and their geographic listing (US indexes versus foreign indexes).
• While the industry norm may be months, we are able to initiate trading on new exchanges in a matter of days - new products in a matter of hours. Current exchanges include: AMEX, BOX, CBOE, CBOT, CFE, CME, EUREX, ISE and OneChicago.

CTC’s technology provides the backbone for our real time risk management system, playing an integral part of our daily process. Advanced proprietary systems utilize our unique model as the basis for our risk management and pricing application. As market conditions change, our trading systems allow for the immediate identification of profit opportunities and a real-time risk profile within the 300 (and growing) products we trade.

• Market changes are rapidly integrated into valuation models, delivering the most accurate calculations available at all times.
• The flexibility of this system allows us to effectively communicate valuable market information to all our traders around the world on a real-time basis.
• CTC’s risk management tools provide unique, customized advantages that packaged solutions lack. Because of this, we can price complex spreads faster and with greater certainty than most of our competitors.
• Our developers use leading edge technologies throughout all of their systems, focusing on speed and reliability.