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Fortex FX—Trade the World

Currency trading will never be the same again with Fortex FX. The Fortex FX platform is optimized for buy-side and sell-side institutions, including banks, broker-dealers, prime brokers, fund managers, and traders. It connects to major bank dealing systems and execution services around the globe in real time—at no extra cost to you. Traders gain streaming real-time quotes, Straight-through Processing (STP), and sophisticated order handling capabilities, all from a single interface.

Multibank Portal
Fortex FX Multibank Portal software enables real-time Executable Streaming Quotes (ESQ) from more than 50 liquidity providers for over 80 global currency pairs over the Fortex proprietary network. As a result, Fortex FX provides you with a premier vantage point on its multi-dealer auction system so that you can view market depth and action with insight and clarity. And with Fortex STP technology, you can execute trades with all available liquidity providers from a single user interface.

 
  Fortex Foreign Exchange Features  
 

• STP to inter-bank markets
• Multi-asset trading capabilities
• Single-click order entry
• Market depth view for multi-dealer   auction system
• Advanced chart and technical studies
• Basket trading, allocation, and alert   triggers
• Program trading support through APIs
• Sophisticated order types such as   market, limit, fill-or-kill, immediate-or-  cancel, all-or-none, stop loss, take   profit, threshold, trailing stops,   conditional, and embedded
• Real-time mark-to-market portfolio   management with weighted average   pricing

 
 


Straight-Through Processing

Artificial intelligence (AI) provides Straight-Through Processing (STP) of your orders to inter-bank markets without human intervention for instant, low-cost execution. At the same time, AI STP optimizes trading decisions across all markets by locating maximum liquidity, discovering price improvement, and minimizing market impact. You can place market, limit, fill-or-kill, immediate-or-cancel, all-or-none, stop loss, take profit, threshold, trailing stops, conditional, and embedded orders to execute even the most sophisticated trading strategies.

Open-End Currency Exchange
Fortex FX can also function as an open-end currency exchange system. The advanced exchange capability facilitates order matching and crossing. Built-in Fortex Deal Book and Fortex Quote Maker capabilities offer essential tools for dealers to make markets. You can also use Fortex AI Dealer intelligent trading to automatically make markets in fast, high-volume, and tight-spread trading environments.

Speed to Spare
Fortex FX enables high-velocity trading with lightning-fast speed. Trades are executed in less than 40 milliseconds, thanks to a multi-concurrent processing architecture and Fortex’s robust, world-class hosting infrastructure. You can easily handle tens of thousands of trades per session—even during the most chaotic market surges.

Easy to Use
Traders can only increase their trading success if their trading platform is easy to use. Fortex’s powerful, intuitive trading interface offers numerous innovative functions to facilitate trading and enhance analysis while minimizing a trader’s learning curve. Traders can quickly become productive with the platform, and customization tools enable them to further personalize their desktop to support their work styles and preferences.

Count on High Availability
Fortex FX runs on a fully redundant, carrier-class IT infrastructure. Designed to provide “always-on” performance for mission-critical traffic, the Fortex infrastructure includes real-time backup capabilities. Even if an outage occurs anywhere in the network, data is mirrored and instantly recoverable. Hot-swap features on critical network servers and network infrastructure mean that Fortex FX is never taken out of service—whether for routine IT maintenance or emergency service. And automatic downtime recovery features ensure that if network performance is interrupted for any reason, trading traffic is automatically re-routed through the network without missing a beat. You are ensured of continuous, reliable performance for maximum trading performance.

Integration Support
An array of Fortex application programming interfaces (APIs) streamlines integration with modeling and automated trading applications. We help you to quickly deploy Fortex FX and ensure seamless interoperability with your trading environment.

Back Office Support
The Fortex BackOffice web portal streamlines and facilitates all the back office tasks and post trade services. It handles trade processing, settlement, account statements, reporting, regulatory filing, and system administration tasks—bridging the gap between clearing and electronic trading.

 
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