Who is BTR
Twenty years of getting orders to the right place.
We started inside one of the largest clearing firms in the world and spun out to offer our custodial diversity. Today we remain independent and client focused.
Where we came from
Built inside a clearing firm, now unanchored from one
Most of what BTR does well is a reaction to something that did not work when we were on the inside. Being tied to one clearing firm was the first of them.
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2005
Chicago
BTR is founded as an algorithmic trading division of the largest non-bank Futures Commission Merchant in the world. From electronic execution to arbitrage with the then-open trading pits.
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2010
Independent
The partners spin the business out of that FCM to become clearing-firm independent and platform agnostic. Nobody has to route an order somewhere because the parent company owns it.
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Today
To the cloud
BTR’s operations are cloud based, offering stable, redundant, low-latency execution which scales to our clients’ needs.
In twenty years of doing that, across every kind of systematic developer, portfolio manager, trading platform and exchange we have come across:
- Thousands of customers, from every corner of the globe
- Millions of futures contracts executed
- Tens of billions in notional value traded
Figures above describe cumulative executed volume and customer counts since 2005. They are a measure of activity, not of results, and say nothing about the performance of any account. Futures trading is complex and carries the risk of substantial losses. It is not suitable for all investors and you should not rely on any of the information herein as a substitute for the exercise of your own skill and judgment in making a decision on the appropriateness of such investments.
What we are for
Connect market participants to the products they want to trade
That is the whole mission. Everything below it is a detail of how, and everything we have built is either a way of shortening that path or making it easier to walk.
For private clients
We help investors build more resilient portfolios by making systematic futures strategies clear, practical and accessible — grounded in disciplined research, transparent analysis and thoughtful risk management. That includes telling you when an allocation is not right for you.
Diversify with alternativesFor developers and managers
We aim to offer the best execution and brokerage service we can put in front of you. However you produce a trading signal — compiled code, a platform workspace, a FIX session or a spec on a napkin — we can connect it to the target market at the lowest latency we can reach.
Services for developers and managers
Talk to someone who knows.
A quick phone call will tell you more than an hour on any website. Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you whether we are the right fit for it.