Seven Points Capital’s Traders:
Our traders use advanced algorithms that monitor price, size, and liquidity across various market participants and responds by sending orders that instantly reflect the market at that second.  Orders are sliced into pieces to rapidly execute small legs, minimize slippage, and take advantage of illiquid situations.  These dynamic processes come together to capture a spread even when it exists for seconds, thus maximizing the orders completion rate and capitalizing on opportunities that a traditional human broker would ordinarily miss.  Our traders are able to tweak a variety of parameters and variables which, when independently configured and aligned, create the maximum potential for achieving quality executions.

Traditional Spread Traders:
Human brokers/traders monitor prices and bid/offer size on multiple executions venues.  From this information they must process slippage, order size, hedging ratios, execution destination, and manage mis-hedge risk.  Traders usually manage a spread by legging a fixed order amount when the desired spread presents itself in the market.  Such consistent order size and predictable behavior hand-cuffs a trader’s ability to quickly react and process information in an extremely dynamic environment.  This narrow approach prohibits traders from capitalizing on opportunities that appear and disappear in seconds.