Actant’s solution for market making has the speed for competitive market making as well as the features and flexibility for obligation quoting. Actants provide market makers across the world the tools required to profitably make markets in options, options strategies, options auctions as well as making markets in futures and equities.

• Trade strategies, participate in auctions and meet obligations
• Easily customizable for your quoting strategy
• Flexible risk monitoring and hedging
• Defend your profits with an innovative and exceptionally fast pick-off defender
• Add full ExStream integration and the possibilities are endless
• Flexible deployment to suit the needs of any size organization

No matter how complex or nuanced your strategy, Actant ExStream makes it quick and simple to implement, powered by Actant’s easy to use scripting and ExStream Studio.

• Create smart order types and execution algorithms
• Filter, scan for opportunities and manage orders on all instruments
• Visualize, customize and automate position, risk management and hedging
• Easily integrate external tools and signals via any language or Excel

For the sophisticated professional trader, Actant offers more than manual trading, click trading, hedging, analytics, risk and position management. With full ExStream integration professional traders get:

• Unparalleled access to risk metrics. Add your custom risk metric in minutes in both real-time monitoring and risk sumulation.
• Full support for any exchange or broker order type and execution algo, build your own smart order types and leverage any forementioned order type in your custom order type.
• Algorithms, scanning and filtering of opportunities and workflow automation with the support of automation, professional traders can capture more opportunities, work more efficiently and parallelize their strategy
• Extensive library of valuation models and volatility models and extensive API support for integrating analytics with external tools or implement custom analytics in Actant

Risk management is an increasingly critical part of trading. Actant offers risk and compliance managers an array of tools for monitoring and control.

• Full access to market data displays and analytics
• Create custom risk metrics and automated alerts with Actant ExStream
• Monitor any portfolio in the system with Portfolio Center
• Simulate risk with Risk Simulation
• Control trading access and limits with Risk Control
• Fulfill compliance requirements with multiple audit tools for a multiple regulators and exchanges

Fast and reliable exchange connectivity is critical to any trader. Actant always supports the fastest protocol offered and provides high throughput and low latency as measured on the switch by utilizing our proprietary, highly optimized connectivity framework with no unnecessary hops nor thread switches, as well as both kernel bypass and hardware acceleration.

For non-members Actant has a proprietary FIX engine for quick integration with any DMA or broker FIX engine and support for a selection or market data vendors.