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  • 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 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 International Securities Exchange
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  • The 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 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.

Gold

  • 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 Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P.
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  • Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P. (“GSEC”) is at the forefront of advanced technology, offering interactive tools and services to not only grow our clients’ businesses, but also to maximize their performance in this increasingly complex and dynamic environment. We provide clients with a seamless platform consisting of premiere execution and clearance capabilities across multiple asset classes and currencies. Our client base consists of broker dealers, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, corporate institutions, pension funds, mutual funds, and central banks, many of which utilize REDIPlus® for execution and position monitoring.

    As a global clearer, we are dedicated to supporting client expansion into the international marketplace. Our London-based GSEC Europe and Hong Kong-based GSEC Asia offices support global market participants by providing a multi-product clearing platform in combination with risk-based margining, leverage, and securities lending capabilities.

  • 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 Options Clearing Corporation
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  • OCC Background
    OCC is the world’s largest derivatives clearing organization by contract volume and open interest. Founded in 1973, OCC operates under the jurisdiction of both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Derivatives Clearing Organization, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a Registered Clearing Agency. OCC now provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 13 exchanges and platforms for options, futures and securities lending.

    As the CCP clearinghouse for the markets it serves, OCC assumes the counterparty risk of members involved in a trade—becoming the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer. OCC manages its risk of member default by collecting margin. In 1993, OCC became the first clearinghouse to receive a ‘AAA’ credit rating from Standard & Poor’s Corporation, and has continued to receive that high rating every year as a result of its risk management standards.

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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.

    www.actant.com

  • 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 Bloomberg Tradebook®
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  • BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK® is a leading global agency broker used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide. Tradebook provides a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments.

    Founded in 1996, Tradebook is a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity, offering its global customer base with trading solutions in over 60 global markets via eight offices on five continents. Many leading buy-side institutions and broker-dealers have come to rely on Tradebook’s commitment to customer service and unique blend of innovative trading algorithms and algorithmic trading strategies to help them seek best execution on one integrated platform.

  • About Credit Suisse
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  • As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 45,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

  • About Instinet
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  • Instinet is an electronic trading pioneer, having established the world’s first major electronic trading venue in 1969, one of the first recognized U.S. ECNs in 1997 and the first pan-European MTF in 2007. Instinet operates a global network of agency-only brokers that seek to help institutions lower overall trading costs and improve investment performance through the use of innovative electronic trading products, including smart-routing, algorithms, DMA, dark pools and EMS platforms, and also provide sales trading, commission management services and independent research. Instinet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.

  • About Morgan Stanley
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  • Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in financial service and market execution. With more than 1,200 offices in 36 countries, the people of Morgan Stanley are dedicated to providing our clients the finest thinking, products, and services to help them achieve even their most challenging goals.

    Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) provides a complete spectrum of services from pre-trade analytics and execution, to post-trade execution performance analysis and commission management. We offer a comprehensive algorithmic trading suite and various direct market access (DMA) strategies, including our smart order routing technology and our dark liquidity pool aggregator. Whether you are connecting to us via a third-party order management system or using our Morgan Stanley Passport execution management system, our global product offering provides seamless access to trade portfolios, single stocks, ETFs, options, futures, swaps, and foreign exchange. Our team is committed to providing stellar trading solutions for the most demanding specifications.

  • About Orc Software
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  • Orc Software (SSE: ORC) provides advanced trading solutions for options market makers, volatility traders, futures spread traders, arbitrageurs, and other traders wanting to deploy low-latency, ultra-high frequency trading strategies. Orc's trading solutions include a high-speed algorithmic trading engine, low-latency market connectivity to over 100 markets around the world, and sophisticated pricing and risk management tools.

    Orc allows traders to deploy their trading strategies quickly into the market and continuously update these strategies as market conditions change. Traders are able to quickly expand their trading to new markets and instruments by leveraging Orc's extensive market connectivity. Together, this allows traders to have the flexibility they need with the scalability they want to grow their business.

    Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide the tools for making the best trading and connectivity decisions with strong analytics, unmatched market access, powerful automated trading functionality, high performance futures and options trading capabilities, ultra-low latency and risk management.

    To learn more about Orc Software, visit us at www.orcsoftware.com.

  • About Penson Financial Services
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  • Penson Financial Services, Inc. provides execution, clearing, settlement, custody and technology services to retail and institutional broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms, and registered investment advisers. With a global presence, underscored by local expertise, Penson is a leading provider of products and services to financial firms around the world. Penson—Building the Best Clearing and Execution Services Firm in the World. For more information contact:

    Penson Financial Services, Inc.
    Sean Malloy, Senior Vice President-Sales and Marketing or Dan Weingarten, Senior Vice President-Sales and Marketing
    1700 Pacific Avenue, Suite 1400
    Dallas, Texas 75201
    800.696.3585
    smalloy@penson.com or dweingarten@penson.com

  • About Schaeffer's Investment Research
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  • Bernie Schaeffer and Schaeffer's Investment Research, a fully independent research company, are renowned for excellence in stock and option trading and research. With over 30 years of experience, it is Mr. Schaeffer's goal to help investors broaden their market knowledge and enhance their portfolio's performance.

    Bernie Schaeffer and his team hold an enviable record of innovation, performance, and leadership. Schaeffer's Investment Research offers a full array of market bulletins, newsletters, educational tools, and real-time stock and option alert services to help investors trade successfully using the Schaeffer's edge – Expectational Analysis®.

    In spring 2009, Schaeffer's launched Bernie Schaeffer's SENTIMENT magazine, a quarterly publication designed to help investors better understand the world of options, plus provide options-based tools to help investors improve their trading.

    Schaeffer's award-winning website, www.SchaeffersResearch.com has been referred to by Forbes as an "…ideal (website) for investors who deal in both stocks and options."

  • 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.

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