As technology advances increase the sophistication of trading systems and strategies FX exchanges must rapidly evolve or become outdated and obsolete. The two most important factors in today's foreign exchange market are price and speed of execution. One millisecond of latency more than necessary is the difference between an executed trade and a missed opportunity. If every millisecond matters to your trading strategy then Spotex is for you.

The Spotex ECN uses proprietary technologies to provide an end to end solution which offers the fastest trade execution time in the industry. This makes Spotex the ideal platform for high frequency, algorithmic and arbitrage traders who want to be tick to tick with the market. Spotex internal deal execution time for an aggressive trade is 1 millisecond even in peak times. Order responses are also delivered within a millisecond. These times are only possible with our hyper optimized event based technologies.

Participants are guaranteed the ability to place bids/offers and access to our anonymous full market book from multiple counter parties. Institutions have real time control over all aspects of their trading activities and risk management. Spotex provides sophisticated back-office operations where client's manage risk, trade activity, positions, settlements and much more. Institutions have the option to co-locate their servers in our Equinix facility.

Spotex provides a transparent ECN with live executable prices, no last look and no RFQ's. We never directly or indirectly participate in any trade activities performed within the system. Client's always get price improvement if there is a better price available then what the client has requested. Active Traders have access to their trading records which include the brokerage paid to Spotex as well as the price spread applied or negotiated prices on trades by their broker for credit access.

Institutions participate in Spotex by using their existing prime broker or choosing one of the participating prime brokers. There are several connectivity options including - Spotex Station(GUI), Spotex FIX and a Spotex Java API.