Algorithmic Trading

Black Box Trading Market interest in automated black box trading and algorithmic trading has grown immensely over the last several years as institutions seek to automate their own trading ideas and strive for more efficient and competitive trading strategies. vCap FX can introduce high-volume institutional clients and proprietary trading groups to independent third-party programmers that can assist your institution with all of your black box trading needs: black box hosting, black box programming, algorithmic strategy development, strategy automation and back testing in the global derivatives markets.

Our independent third-party programmers can greatly shorten the time to create and deploy new trading strategies so that you can remain focused on your core competency - managing investments:

• Coding the software and strategy
• Back-testing the strategy
• Black Box Hosting

Black Box Hosting

Our black box hosting services give your institution or proprietary trading group access to our server infrastructure and programming that has been optimized for speed and maximum efficiency. Latency is minimized with our direct connections to inter-bank FX Portals.

Automating Trading Strategies

Automating the trading process involves a deep understanding of the client’s strategy, analysis, identification, placement and execution of orders that are formulated to meet pre-defined trading goals. What distinguishes vCap FX in the marketplace, is our consultative approach and desire to listen to clients first and understand their business, so that we can introduce our clients to the right programmers that can customize their algorithms or create new ones to fit their specific needs.

Our independent third-party programmers understand intellectual property rights and respect the proprietary nature of trading strategies and have gone to great lengths to create proper contractual mechanisms to assure confidentiality and protect the client’s strategy. Given the ever-evolving nature of equities and derivatives markets, we feel that speed is crucial in getting an automated strategy into the market. The involvement of our partners and developers who possess electronic trading experience ensures that the launch of the new program is smooth and expeditious, utilizing the appropriate specialists.