Product 02 · Trading
The whole desk on one screen.
A card workspace the trader arranges once and keeps. Market data, order entry, allocation, exposure and risk, laid out the way they work rather than the way a vendor decided. Windows and macOS, across as many monitors as they have.
The workspace
Cards, arranged the way the trader thinks.
Everything on the screen is a card. The trader tiles them, groups them into tabs, drags one out onto a second monitor, and the arrangement is still there at login the next morning.
- Market Data Grid
- Market Data Ladder
- Market Data Charts
- Order Entry
- All Orders
- Active Orders
- Trades
- Allocation
- Allocation / Recap
- Spread Builder
- Order Book
- Accounts
- Instruments
- Instrument Details
- Exposure
- Analytics
- Risk Limits
- Admin
Market data
Prices the way the instrument is actually quoted.
Grid, ladder, depth, charts
The same feed in whichever shape suits the instrument. Thirty seconds of staring at a ladder beats a grid for a contract you are working, and the reverse is true for a watchlist of forty.
Fractional prices, rendered properly
Treasury prices in 32nds and finer, with the handle, the separator and the ticks weighted so the eye lands on the part that moves. Tabular figures throughout, so columns of prices line up.
Spreads as instruments
Build a curve trade or a fly from its legs with ratios, and it prices and trades as one line in the grid alongside the outrights.
Columns under the trader's control
Add, reorder, group and colour columns per card. Text and background colour per column, so the instruments that matter today are findable without reading.
Groups as presets
The desk's standard watchlists are configuration, not code. An administrator publishes a group and it appears for everyone entitled to it.
Bloomberg alongside your feed
BLPAPI through native bindings sits next to the internal price feed, so reference and spread analytics do not need a second application open.
Order flow
From the ticket to the allocation.
Risk
Limits set by the risk manager, not the trader.
The Risk Limits card is restricted to the administrator role. A trader never sees it, and cannot reach its controls.
Administration
Entitlements that survive an audit.
Entities, trading accounts, users, roles and groups are all administered in the application. A user is scoped to an entity, granted a role, and allowed onto a specific set of that entity's accounts. Groups bundle a team and a pool of accounts once, so adding a trader to the desk gives them the right access in a single action.
Card visibility and account access both derive from the same permission set, so there is no second place where access can drift. A user created inactive cannot log in at all, which covers the gap between provisioning and an approved start date. Deactivating someone who is logged in ends their session as the change saves, with no grace period.
Ergonomics
Eight hours in front of it.
A terminal is read all day in a room whose lighting nobody controls. Legibility is a feature, not decoration.
Next step
Watch a trader drive it.
The fastest way to judge a terminal is to see somebody build a layout, work an order and allocate it, without slides in between. That is the call.