Silver Sponsors
ATD, A Citi Company
ATD, a Citi company, specializes in automated trading and customized equity and option execution solutions. Our automated systems strive to deliver superior execution, realizing significant time and cost savings. ATD, a Citi company, executes orders from buy-side institutions, retail order-sending firms, and sell-side broker/dealers, handling orders ranging in size from odd-lots to institutional size blocks. Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.
CITADEL
Citadel Derivatives Group LLC (CDRG) is a leading Specialist / Market Maker in U.S. listed equity and index options, and has been at the forefront of the automation of the U.S. options marketplace. In addition CDRG's Citadel Execution Services (CES) group offers broker dealers a wide range of order routing services across equities and all listed options products. Our automated model provides immediate access to all U.S. options exchanges.
Citadel Derivatives Group LLC is an affiliate of Citadel Investment Group LLC.
Group One Trading, L.P.
Group One Trading, L.P. is one of the largest proprietary options trading firms in the country, with a presence on the exchange floors in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. With headquarters in Chicago and New York, Group One has become a formidable leader in derivatives trading, making competitive markets in over 1900 listed and equity index options. Group One’s success is directly attributable to the entrepreneurial spirit and drive encouraged at all levels of staff.
Lehman Brothers
Visit Lehman Brothers online at lehmanbrothers.com.
MIXIT
MIXIT is the leading provider of advanced trading technology and FIX connectivity services to the financial industry. Our integrated suite of products allows firms to trade and communicate with clients in the most anonymous manner. Our expertise, advanced technology, neutrality and commitment to the highest levels of service provides the foundation for our customers business to prosper.
optionsXpress Holdings, Inc.
optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. offers online retail brokerage platform that provides brokerage services for option, stock, futures, mutual fund, and fixed-income product investors in the United States and internationally. Its browser-based technology delivers various trading tools, which allow retail and professional investors to identify, analyze, and execute a range of investment strategies. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. optionsXpress has been lauded by the industry and the press as a model for online investing including being named "Best Online Broker" by Barron’s in four of the last five years.
Penson Financial Services, Inc.
Penson Financial Services, Inc. is the Flexible Choice in Global Financial Services. Broker/dealers, wealth managers and investment advisors worldwide choose Penson's facilities and services to support full-service, discount and online brokers, active, proprietary and automated traders, bond dealers, underwriters and others. Innovative and integrated technology solutions and an extensive suite of customizable services give Penson's correspondents and clients the freedom to focus on their core business.
Schaeffer's Investment Research
Bernie Schaeffer and Schaeffer's Investment Research, a fully independent research company, is renowned for excellence in stock and option trading. 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 offers a full array of market bulletins, newsletters, educational tools, and real-time stock and option alert services helping you trade like a professional with the Schaeffer’s Edge – Expectational Analysis®.
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." Visit SchaeffersResearch.com to experience our unique market insight, employ the extensive array of trading tools, and utilize the abundance of FREE content each trading day – A MUST VISIT!
Susquehanna International Group
The Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG) is one of the largest privately held global financial firms servicing major securities markets and institutional clients worldwide. An innovator with options and derivatives, SIG leverages its quantitative applications to maintain its renowned liquidity provision and execution capabilities in a broad range of equity, fixed income, and commodity products. SIG includes affiliated entities specializing in investment banking, research, institutional sales and trading, private equity, and venture capital. Headquartered in the Philadelphia area, SIG employs more than 1,400 individuals located in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For further information about SIG’s services, products, and recruitment opportunities, please visit www.sig.com.
Terra Nova Financial, LLC
Terra Nova Financial, LLC is a specialized financial services firm focused on supporting trading professionals. Professional traders, hedge funds and money managers come to Terra Nova for unmatched value in execution, clearing and prime brokerage services. This recognition originated with the firm's role as the sponsoring broker-dealer for the innovative Archipelago ECN (now part of the NYSE Euronext) and has been further earned through its proven mastery of the client experience. Through a portfolio of advanced technology tools including its proprietary offerings, Tradient Pro and Tradient Plus, Terra Nova empowers self-directed clients to trade, analyze, strategize and report with the precision professionals require. Terra Nova's team is built to enhance the impact of these tools by providing swift, flexible, empowered care and insight, with one goal in mind: clients' success.
TJM Investments, LLC
TJM Investments, LLC is an independent broker/dealer providing voice brokerage and electronic market access to all US equity, equity option and index markets. Our brokers are experienced in complex option trading strategies and offer equity pairs and basket trading. One of our strengths lies in the extensive off the floor relationships with the market-making community, providing price improvement and deeper liquidity. TJM’s independence allows us to access the best possible market, be it on-floor or off-floor, for our customer. Our CBOE Index Team, in direct contact with customers, executes from the SPX, DJX, MNX and QQQ trading crowds. The primary work of our floor brokers is to immediately and effectively represent customer orders received in the on the floor via telephone and electronic delivery workstations. Having direct access to the trading crowds allows customers to stay in tune to what is happening at the heart of the market.
UBS
A financial powerhouse with global reach, UBS is the world's largest wealth manager, a top-tier investment bank, a leading global asset manager, and the market leader in Swiss retail and commercial banking.
UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It employs over 80,000 people and operates in more than 50 countries. Its shares are listed on the SWX Swiss Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
UBS’s leading investment banking and securities business serves a wide range of clients including corporates, governments, hedge funds, financial sponsors, private equity firms, banks, brokers, and asset managers worldwide.
With top-tier capabilities across investment banking, equities, fixed income, and foreign exchange, it offers clients expert advice, superb execution, product innovation, and comprehensive access to the world’s capital markets.
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