High-Frequency Trading Software (HFT) for Algorithmic Trading

Powerful algorithmic trading engine

HFT strategies for equities, futures, options, fixed income, forex, and crypto trading without having to invest the time and resources in building and maintaining your own technology infrastructure.

Functionality

Offers an unprecedented level of functionality and power to trading desks, it also can be configured to deliver just a subset of required features.

High throughput

Provides all the essential components to facilitate throughput of tens of thousands of orders per second at sub-millisecond latency.

Reliability

Modular approach facilitates better fault isolation where the failure and recovery of one module does not require the restart of the rest of the system.

Support

It is supported by engineers with 20 years of experience in the industry who know the product and your business needs.

Modular architecture

HiFREQ open, broker-neutral architecture allows users to create and deploy proprietary, complex trading strategies as well as access algorithms from brokers and other third-party providers. Orders can be routed to any global market destination via InfoReach’s internal low-latency FIX Engine.

Product features

Multi-asset

Global equities, futures, options, fixed income,
forex, and crypto

Broker neutral

HiFREQ connects you to multiple brokers,
exchanges and ECNs.

Fast

HiFREQ can execute 20,000+ orders per second per single FIX connection. Using two or more FIX connections can considerably increase throughput.

Distributed and Scalable

To increase the efficiency and performance of the trading strategies their components can be designed to run concurrently. Strategy components can also be deployed across multiple servers that can be collocated with various execution venues.

Risk control

HiFREQ provides risk assessment of every order request and ensures compliance with pre-configured firm-specific trading constraints.

Centralized monitoring and control

While components of HiFREQ can be distributed across various geographical locations all strategy performance monitoring and control functions can be performed from a centralized remote location.

Low latency

Sub-millisecond roundtrip latency measured from the point HiFREQ gets a FIX execution report to the point when HiFREQ completes sending a FIX order message.

Risk Control Features

The risk limits component offers many types of predefined risk checks and also allows customers to configure their own rules regarding how certain risk levels are being calculated.
User Scope

System administrators can configure risk limit checks to apply to a specific user, group of users or all users.

Category

Risk checks can be configured for various custom-defined categories. For example, one can define certain risk check rules.

Instrument Scope

Risk limit rules can be assigned to specific instruments, all instruments or any instrument within specified Category.

Risk Limit Type:
Long Position

Start-of-day and intraday buys

Short Position

Start-of-day and intraday sells

Net Position

Start-of-day and intraday buys minus sells

Gross Position

Start-of-day and intraday buys plus sells

Intraday Long Position

Intraday buys

Interval Order Count Size

Ensures the total number of orders sent over a specific time interval does not exceed a pre-set level

Open Long Position

Open buys

Open Short Position

Open sells

Open Net Position

Open buys minus sells

Interval Order Size

Ensures the total amount traded over a specific interval does not exceed a pre-set level

Single Order Price Away

Validates order limit price against some reference price.

Single Order Liquidity (% ADV)

Checks the size of the order against the percentage of the instrument ADV

Open Gross Position

Open buys plus sells

Single Order Size

Checks the size of the order being sent

Order Count

Ensures the total number of orders sent does not exceed a pre-set level

Intraday Short Position

Intraday sells

Intraday Gross Position

Intraday buys minus sells

Limit Unit:
An administrator can use various methods for risk check calculations.

Quantity

implies that calculation is done based on shares or contracts. For example, Open Long Position may not exceed 1,000,000 shares

Value

implies that calculation is done based on the notional value. For example, Open Short Position cannot exceed 10,000,000 USD

Percentage
  • Percentage – order size check against ADV
  • Absolute, Bps, Percentage of Spread, Percentage of Price or Tick – units for Single Order
  • Price Away checks
Broker Desk and Algo vs. Direct Market Access

InfoReach detects when trader attempts to send large market orders to the open markets rather to the broker’s desks or algorithms and warns traders of the potential risk.

Currency

Currency of the specified risk check.

Warning Threshold %

Percentage of the risk limit level at which the system issues a warning about approaching the risk limit.

Hard Limit by Target Price

When this rule is active the system ensures that no child order can be placed into the market with a price worse than the limit price of its parent order.

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Our world-class support team is comprised of experienced engineers who know the product, understand your business goals and ensure client solutions are trade-ready in weeks, not months.