Lava Trading Platform

Overview

Lava Trading is a technology firm founded in 1999 by three Wall Street veterans that develops high-performance trading solutions for the financial services industry and operates as a Specialized Applications Service Provider (SASP).

Lava's team of highly skilled professionals have created one of the fastest large-scale technology rollouts on Wall Street. Lava's technology was the first solution to truly consolidate market data distribution and order execution capabilities across all major liquidity sources, including major foreign exchange banks, Nasdaq, Listed exchanges, ECNs and ATSs.

Lava developed a high-speed, proprietary multi-parallel processing software solution that offered direct, dedicated, high-speed connections to all market data sources and order entry systems. The Lava system went live in November 2000, and was fully deployed by early 2001. With its core product suite, the company offered the first system to truly consolidate market data distribution and order execution capability across all available FX liquidity sources.

As a cost effective and neutral provider, Lava's foreign exchange solutions are used by leading broker/dealers, including most of the top 20 U.S. investment banks, market makers, hedge funds and institutional investors.

Today, Lava continues to grow substantially - in customers, employees and contracts traded. Lava has more than 100 clients including broker/dealers, market makers, institutional investors and hedge funds. In fact, Lava's datacenters execute on average more than 300 million shares a day and nearly 200 billion shares have been executed using Lava technology.

Features & Benefits

Lava FX - The world's largest financial marketplace is growing. Foreign exchange trading has experienced a resurgence in the last several years, with electronic foreign exchange trading volumes growing exponentially. As volumes increase, so too does demand for even greater trading efficiency and transparency.

Now Lava Trading brings its world-class leadership in equities trading to the FX marketplace with Lava FX. This new product suite, built upon Lava's leading, proprietary technology core, provides a premier offering in electronic foreign exchange trading that will transform the FX marketplace.

With Lava FX technology, you'll get increased trading efficiency, along with greater pricing transparency, liquidity and aggregation of disparate FX execution venues. It's a new class of service, leveraging Lava's fast, reliable and intelligent trading solutions to provide straight-through foreign exchange trading.

Lava FX provides a Central Limit Order Book of live dealable prices, full price transparency and depth of book, and the ability to place bids and offers, together with Lava's sophisticated order types. The system aggregates multiple sources of FX liquidity into a single access point, which can be tapped via the fast, intuitive Lava FX user interface, or through a FIX API geared towards model and program traders.

Download

IMPORTANT: Prior to downloading the Lava FX platform, you will need to request a demo and obtain a User Id and Password from vCap FX. Please click here to complete the Demo Request Form to obtain a User ID and Password.

Once you have obtained a User ID and Password from vCap FX, we will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to download your Lava FX product.

Support

IMPORTANT Please DO NOT contact Platform Support for sales related information. For any account opening information please contact Sales.

vCap FX Support: + 1 512 828 6626
fxsupport@lavatrading.com
support@vcap.com