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Options Technology partners with Trade The Pool to boost access to global FX and CFD markets

Rick Steves

“As a prop stock-trading firm, we are committed to providing our traders with the required tools and resources to enhance their trading experience and results as funded traders, and we believe that with a partner such as Options we have a great opportunity to achieve this”.

Options Technology has partnered with Trade The Pool to provide customers with tick data alongside Trade The Pools’ proprietary execution capabilities and Options’ pre-deployed technology stack that consumes, translates, and broadcasts normalized tick data to clients worldwide, providing comprehensive access to the global FX and CFD markets.

The announcement follows Options’ acquisition of ACTIV Financial and the subsequent integration of its normalized data services and (API).

Options now provide clients with global access to multi-asset class exchange feeds alongside underlying hardware for streaming real-time and delayed market data.

Danny Moore, President and CEO of Options Technology, said: “We are delighted to partner with Trade The Pool and bolster our global market data services with the most innovative trading solutions and expertise. Our partnership has already accelerated Options’ growing portfolio of market data services and reinforced our integrated cloud offering with the latest tools, capabilities and automation infrastructure. As we expand our services into new regions and territories, we look forward to working with Trade The Pool to build on this momentum and our shared vision for service excellence, industry-leading products and choice for our customers across the capital markets.”

Michael Katz, CEO of Trade The Pool, said: “We are excited to collaborate with Options which offers cutting-edge solutions. As a prop stock-trading firm, we are committed to providing our traders with the required tools and resources to enhance their trading experience and results as funded traders, and we believe that with a partner such as Options we have a great opportunity to achieve this”.

Trade The Pool leverages TraderEvolution for trading platform with 3000 CFDs on equities and ETFs

Trade The Pool has recently tapped TraderEvolution Global to develop and launch its proprietary trading platform, to allow stock day traders to generate profits from trading US equities and ETFs.

The professional trading platform, built by TraderEvolution, contains the best features available and an easy and user-friendly workspace. The product offering was developed in partnership with CBOE and consists of over 3000 CFDs on equities and ETFs from the US market available in each of 3 funding programs for applying traders.

Trade The Pool is a stock trading prop firm for day traders, and is backed by Five Percent Online Ltd., a company that operates The5ers.com, a well-known and highly reputed online prop firm established in 2016.

The prop firm provides funds for program participants so they can generate profits via for quick-paced trading. Among key tools are those for scalping, level-2 trading with information about order flow, market discovery tools as well as charts that support multiple styles and data aggregations.

TraderEvolution is a multi-market trading platform provider offering modular, tailored solutions that include a back-end with established connectivities to dozens of markets across the globe, and a complex front-end suite with web, mobile, and desktop applications.

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