At Advanced Markets our goal is simple; to provide traders,
retail and institutional alike, a trading environment that's
fair. Sounds simple, and actually it is, when a company employs
a strict STP (straight through processing) model. What this
means is that Advanced Markets completely steps aside on ALL
trades. ALL trades placed on our RealStream platform are sent
DIRECTLY through to various liquidity providers, all of them
being banks, which instantaneously execute the traders' orders.
There is No re-pricing, and No gray price. There will always be
a price during ALL market conditions.
Advanced Markets does not
have the ability to control or manipulate that price that leaves
the banks price engine. It goes straight through to the end
user, and when the client clicks on that price, it goes straight
through to the liquidity source that sent out that live
executable rate. Advanced Markets does not act as an ECN (An ECN
takes in various prices from a number of institutions,
aggregates those prices, and gives you their own price). What we
do instead, is show you, the client, the price that comes in
from the banks and let you, trade on that price. The only way to
be fair to the end user is to be completely transparent. We have
done this by removing the ability for a company such as ours to
manipulate, freeze, skew, re-price, or have any control
whatsoever over the price that goes to the client.As a result of our model, there is no need for
Advanced
Markets to employ a deal desk. The only reason for a deal desk
is so that a company can do just that, deal. They deal your
prices and decide whether to lay off and hedge your trade, to
take the risk on that trade and profit if you lose, or become
responsible for paying you should you gain. Most companies will
show you a bank?s price, but when a client clicks on that price
it goes to their desk first. An obvious conflict occurs if the
company you are trading with will benefit from a client?s
misfortune. Not needing a deal desk because of our strict STP
model is another way we demonstrate our transparency.
A strict STP model is only possible because of the technology
that we employ. It is the same technology that 1/3 of the top
100 banks in the world use, and have been using for the last 17
years. If a bank can send out a price with confidence that it
will be executed in speeds only seen before in the institutional
world (under 250 milliseconds), then that price will be executed
without having to come back and be checked for accuracy. Without
that speed, traders trade on latent or ?stale prices?, meaning
by the time the order was hit by the end user; the price engine
has already sent out a new and more accurate price. Nearly all
systems can not send and receive prices fast enough before the
prices change, especially in fast moving markets, and that is
why rejections and repricing occurs. The banks can not execute a
price that is old, and old in the institutional world is over
300 milliseconds. So in order to achieve a live executable
price, all the time, technology becomes the most important
variable.
Advanced Markets is committed to bringing a fast, fair,
manipulation free trading environment. We will continue to add
more liquidity providers to ensure tighter spreads and a more
stable environment. Sign up for a live account, or use our Demo
account as an exact replica of a live account. Same price feed,
same executions. Once again, complete transparency.
Advanced Markets, Inc. is an FCM that is registered with the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a member of the
National Futures Association.
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