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- About actant
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actant is a global provider of high-frequency options trading solutions.
Our flagship product AQTOR® powers the activities of participants both seeking and generating liquidity on the world’s leading derivatives markets.
Through our proprietary scripting technology, participants can achieve superior performance due to maximum customization coupled with low latency.

- About Acquire Media
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Acquire Media is a leader in news aggregation and real-time distribution for financial services professionals, corporate enterprises, web portals and publishers. We specialize in technology driven solutions designed to deliver real-time news and other time sensitive multimedia content, XML tagged using a robust taxonomy with accuracy, reliability and ultra-low latency. The Acquire Media NewsEdge suite of products provides these and other features specifically to meet the needs of the financial services industry.
With near-zero latency, NewsEdge products are ideal for traders, hedge funds, brokerage and investment research firms and other time-sensitive applications. Stop by the Acquire Media booth to see how the NewsEdge products can benefit you.

- About Ballista
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Ballista Securities, operator of the Ballista Alternative Trading System, offers equity options traders an efficient, anonymous and reliable platform for delta-neutral strategies, complex transactions and block options trades. Ballista ATS provides an electronic alternative to the traditional manual trading methods of phone calls, emails and IMs. An anonymous, automated and rules-based options trading platform, Ballista ATS offers traders standardization of order-entry for complex order types, user-defined trading filters to manage workflow, and advanced negotiation capability.

- About Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch is a leading global provider of equity and options trading, sales and research services to money managers, professional traders, hedge funds, broker-dealers, pensions, endowments, and other financial institutions around the world.
Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp., one of the largest options clearing firms in the U.S., provides innovative financing, high-volume, real-time clearing, and operational support for institutions and broker-dealers.
Our Execution Services platform offers a complete suite of premier equity trading services enhanced by the firm’s vast global resources, superior liquidity, world-class technology, and leading scale positions in the capital markets. Our range of offerings includes flexible connectivity methods, options and equity smart routing, as well as portfolio and algorithmic trading. Our programs are dynamic, easily accessible and supported by a team of experienced traders and IT professionals.
InstaQuote®, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch execution management system, offers direct market access to equities, options and futures trading. Using state-of-the-art data compression algorithms, it’s fast and reliable for both buy-side and sell-side trading professionals. Brokers have the option to use and redistribute IQ with their own trading mnemonics and logos to market the product as a proprietary offering.
For more information visit us at www.gmi.ml.com/globalmarkets.
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- About BATS
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BATS Global Markets (BATS) is an innovative global financial markets technology company headquartered in the Kansas City, Mo., area with additional offices in New York and London. The BATS platform was launched in January 2006 and, operating as BATS Exchange, Inc., is a premier destination among the top ranked equity markets in the United States. BATS serves the European market through its London based, FSA-authorised subsidiary, BATS Europe, which operates a Multilateral Trading Facility for European securities. BATS is also developing an options market that it expects to launch in the US in early 2010. The BATS platform is internally developed by a dedicated core team of market and technology professionals, catering to the needs of the broker-dealer and trading community. BATS … Making Markets Better.

- About Boston Options Exchange Group
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The Boston Options Exchange Group, LLC is an all-electronic equity options market that is jointly owned by the TMX Group and seven broker dealers. BOX was established in 2002 and launched trading in February 2004 as an alternative to the market models in existence at the time. Since inception, BOX has provided its participants with an efficient and transparent marketplace, cutting edge technology and best price filtering for customer order execution.
BOX offers many distinctive features as well as an innovative market structure. Its ultra-low latency trading engine has hubs in Chicago and New York. Matching is executed based on price-time priority, with no order cancellation fees. Other key features of BOX are its Price Improvement Period auction, which has returned over $250 million to customers since BOX's launch, and multiple competing market makers. There are no DPMs or specialists, and BOX has no seats to buy or lease. BOX has very simple fee structures.

- About Chicago Board Options Exchange
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Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the largest U.S. options exchange and creator of listed options, continues to set the bar for options trading through product innovation, trading technology and investor education. CBOE offers equity, index and ETF options, including proprietary products, such as S&P 500 options (SPX), the most active U.S. index option, and options on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), the world's barometer for market volatility. Other groundbreaking products engineered by CBOE include equity options, security index options, LEAPS, FLEX options, and benchmark products, such as the CBOE BuyWrite Index (BXM). CBOE's Hybrid Trading System incorporates electronic and open-outcry trading, enabling customers to choose their trading method. CBOE's Hybrid is powered by CBOEdirect, a proprietary, state-of-the art electronic platform that also supports the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) and OneChicago. CBOE is home to the world-renowned Options Institute and www.cboe.com, named "Best of the Web" for options information and education.

- About Derivix
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Derivix (www.derivix.com) is a financial services software company that provides institutional traders and hedge funds with a competitive edge through tools that offer advanced real-time options analytics, pricing, portfolio risk management, and broker-neutral access to electronic execution providers. Derivix sets the standard in analytics systems, offering customers the powerful tools and quality they need to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving electronic marketplace. With our commitment to broker neutrality, Derivix provides customers the flexibility they need to fit trading solutions into any business structure. Founded in 2005, the company is privately held with offices in New York, Boston, and Silicon Valley.
Real Time. Real Options. Real Edge.
For sales inquiries, please contact us at sales@derivix.com.

- About International Securities Exchange
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TThe International Securities Exchange (ISE) operates a leading U.S. options exchange and offers options trading on over 2,000 underlying equity, ETF, index, and FX products. As the first all-electronic options exchange in the U.S., ISE transformed the options industry by creating efficient markets through innovative market structure and technology. Regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a member-owner of The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), ISE provides investors with a transparent marketplace for price and liquidity discovery on centrally cleared options products. ISE continues to expand its marketplace through the ongoing development of enhanced trading functionality, new products, and market data services. As a complement to its options business, ISE has expanded its reach into multiple asset classes through strategic investments in financial marketplaces and services that foster technology innovation and market efficiency. Through minority investments, ISE participates in the securities lending and equities markets. ISE also licenses its proprietary Longitude technology for trading in event-driven derivatives markets.
ISE is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurex, a leading global derivatives exchange. Eurex itself is jointly operated by Deutsche Börse AG (Ticker: DB1) and SIX Swiss Exchange AG. Together, Eurex and ISE are the global market leader in individual equity and equity index derivatives. For more information, visit www.ise.com.

- About Livevol, Inc.
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Livevol, Inc. is a software and data services company founded and operated by professional market makers. Livevol produces web-based tools developed for options traders and hosts live and historical data sets for institutions. Each of Livevol's tools and datasets comes directly out of the real-world needs of some of the option industry's most successful traders. Livevol Pro, the flagship web-based front end, is used by professional market makers on every major options exchange in the United States.

- About Mixit
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Mixit is the industry’s trusted independent provider of Options OMS, EMS, and FIX network services. The Options OMS/EMS allows traders to efficiently capture, manage, and execute single legs and multi-leg complex trades.
The functionally-rich platform allows freedom of choice so that your firm is able to route orders to any Options exchange, floor broker, smart router, and Algorithm trading venue. In addition to routing orders, your firm is able to receive orders from your customers electronically through our FIX network.
Some of the other features include CMTA changes with clearing firms/execution destinations, a web-based trade history module, and robust compliance reporting. All of the features combine to create a true paperless electronic trading environment.
For more information, please email sales@mixitusa.com.

- About NASDAQ OMX
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NASDAQ OMX gives you options. Both The NASDAQ Options Market (NOM) and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) leverage NASDAQ OMX's core strengths of high-performance technology and far-reaching connectivity with sub-millisecond execution speed. NOM's price/time priority structure and unique penny pricing afford immediate and automatic price improvement to orders. Maker/taker pricing also provides rebates to liquidity providers. NOM offers diverse order types and flexible functionality to maximize traders' results. PHLX provides a high-speed electronic match engine coupled with floor-based trading. PHLX supports the ability to preference market makers via directed orders and to execute complex orders electronically. Visit www.nasdaqomxtrader.com/options or contact Transaction Services U.S. Market Sales at sales@nasdaqomx.com or +1 800 846 0477 for more information.

- About NYSE Euronext
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NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With more than 8,000 listed issues, NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext, NYSE Arca and NYSE Amex – represent nearly 40 percent of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.

- About OptionMetrics
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OptionMetrics was established in 1999 to provide the most reliable historical options pricing and implied volatility data available anywhere. OptionMetrics' US and international databases are used by financial institutions for back-testing, empirical research, trading and risk management. OptionMetrics' core product, the Ivy DB US Options Database, has become the industry standard for accurate and complete historical equity and index options prices, implied volatility and greeks calculations, and volatility surfaces going back to January 1996. OptionMetrics also offers a European database and an Asian-Pacific database which includes data not available from any other vendor. OptionMetrics' front-end tool OptiGraph is the first tool developed specifically to quickly chart historical implied and realized volatility levels on any optionable US equity or index and to compare volatilities between several underlying securities, or across different maturities of the same security. Currently, more than 200 institutional and academic customers subscribe to OptionMetrics' products.

- About The Options Industry Council
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OIC is an industry cooperative funded by the Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, NASDAQ Options Market, NYSE Amex Options, NYSE Arca Options, and The Options Clearing Corporation. OIC was formed in 1992 to educate investors and their financial advisors about the benefits and risks of exchange-traded equity options. OIC's resources include: The Options Industry Services Help Desk at 1-888-OPTIONS, educational Web sites at www.OptionsEducation.org, www.OptionsEducation.org/advisor and www.OICoptions.com, evening seminars throughout the continental United States and Canada, instructional DVDs and educational literature and software.

- About SpryWare
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SpryWare is a leading provider of Ultra Low Latency Feed Handler Technology Our flagship product, The SpryWare Market Information Server (MIS)™ is a full featured ticker plant solution designed to be multi processor and multi threaded from the ground up. No legacy code. Taking in direct exchange feeds, SpryWare normalizes and compresses the data and is capable of handling extreme volumes and high throughput. Well suited for the fast growing options volumes. The Market Information Server™ is hardware and vendor neutral taking full advantage of the newest processors on the market. Capacity, high throughput, and small hardware footprint, all helping achieve a lower Total Cost of Ownership.
SpryWare is a co-author of the FAST™ protocol and is committed to be a leader bringing standards to market data. The company is an active participant and contributor to The Financial Information eXchange ("FIX") Protocol.

- About Sungard
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To help traders succeed in this competitive environment, SunGard's MicroHedge provides a real-time options trading and risk platform to process market information, and provide pre-trade analytics, post-trade position and risk management, and Direct Market Access (DMA) execution. From risk management and volatility skew analysis to auto-quoting and order execution, MicroHedge delivers a complete platform for options trading and risk management. MicroHedge's open architecture helps provide added flexibility to plug in individual valuation models, volatilities, and interest rates and automates many of the processes within the application.
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world's 25 largest financial services companies.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses.

- About Solace
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Solace Systems is the leading provider of hardware-based middleware, delivering message routers that enable computer systems to share and distribute information at very high speed. Solace's message routers are 10 to 100 times faster than competitive solutions, with performance that's consistent even in the most demanding circumstances. As purpose-built appliances, Solace's message routers also cost less to deploy and operate than software-based solutions. Solace hardware has been successfully implemented by global leaders in markets such as financial services, government, telecommunications and utility computing.

- About Symphono
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At Symphono, we are passionate about software and have deep experience in helping our clients use it to turn their ideas into strategic advantage. Having held key positions in top financial institutions, our management team has the real experience to truly understand the industry and assist with the highest-level of strategic decision-making, Over the years, the list of Symphono clients has grown to include some of the world's largest financial services, asset management, and proprietary trading firms. Our continued growth is the clearest indication of the power of our model and we're eager for the opportunity to help you use software to create your strategic advantage. Come by our booth to understand how Symphono Analytics brings the advantages of the markets' biggest players to you with the introduction of our Option Valuation and Risk Management Data Service.

- About Tag
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The Transaction Auditing Group (TAG) is the leader in independent Best Execution trade analysis for Options and Equities in the US and Europe. As the innovator in our field, our product offerings are the most reliable and comprehensive assessments of execution quality. The majority of Options Exchanges and Brokers rely on TAG for a comparison of liquidity providers and Best Execution analysis. Today, financial securities firms face significant change and competition. TAG has easy-to-use tools and in-depth analytics for both Options and Equities to provide answers to regulators and the business intelligence your firm needs to gain market share. TAG adds value by helping your firm independently validate its performance, differentiate itself from your competitors, and market its strengths. To ensure the integrity of their statistics, Buy & Sellside firms, Exchanges, ETF's, MTF's, and other financial firms continuously seek out and select TAG --- the industry's partner for trade measurement.

- About TrackData
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TrackData is the most trusted source for options data.
We offer a number of unique applications for the institutional options trader including;
optrack: An option scanning service that scans all 7 option markets for overvalued/under-valued premiums, implied volatility spikes, unusual volumes or for the best premium on any option strategy.
NEWSWATCH uses proprietary filtering techniques and delivers consolidated news headlines to the desktop. Retrieve news by ticker symbol, keyword, topic, phrases or industry group. NEWSWARE is the exclusive distributor of many well-known equity and option news services.
Quotation & Trading Services. The FastTrack application is the most relied upon market data tool for option traders. We also offer proTrack for quotations and execution and myTrackPro for cost effective market data solutions.

- About Trade Alert
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Trade Alert, LLC is a software and services company focused on the synthesis and distribution of market intelligence to financial professionals. Our systems help traders and salespeople monitor and interpret order flow in any area of focus, leading to more-informed decisions and intelligent discussions with clients.
The OptionAlert interactive flow monitor and analysis tool combines low latency market data with intelligent stream-processing to identify events and conditions relevant to your business and deliver them seamlessly to your desktop in real-time.
The OptionAlert API provides a feed of real-time option flow data to support algorithmic trading and proprietary analytics without the overhead of tick-data infrastructure.
The TradaBase Historical Dataset includes every execution for all listed options, augmented with Spot, Greeks, Bid/Ask and more, to support backtesting and proprietary analysis and recap tools.
High speed fragmented markets require specialized tools. Traders need relevant information quickly and with little noise. Trade Alert delivers.

- About XFA
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X-Change Financial Access, LLC (“XFA”) is a leading trade brokerage and execution agent for global benchmark derivatives and thousands of equity options, as well as fixed income products, commodities, and cash equities. With desk operations at the major derivatives exchanges and a 24 hour futures execution desk, XFA serves a growing list of clients which includes global financial services firms, major institutional investors, and some of the worlds largest CTAs, hedge funds and market makers. XFA is the largest volume broker in contracts traded at the CBOE, the leading volume broker in S&P 500 Index cash options and S&P 500 Index futures options, and a top execution provider in many other major derivatives and equities across the entire exchange complex.
As a trusted name in the industry, XFA provides a growing client base of global financial firms with exceptional price discovery, superior trade execution services, and expert trading-floor intelligence - all while maintaining strict confidentiality and discretion.

- About YJT
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At YJT Solutions we know that your technology systems cannot fail.
Our clients understand that leveraging our expertise and phenomenal track record in turning ideas into business results is a high-return, low-risk investment. We have years of experience in the worlds of trading and global finance, and the vast majority of our business is from returning clients.
Stop by our booth and discover how together we can make your business thrive.






