Trade a Strategy
BTR executes systematic strategies across global futures markets. Choose a program from AlgoEX, move a strategy you already run into a hosted environment, or have one built from your rules. The account stays in your name at the clearing FCM, and you can stop a strategy whenever you want. Trade for your own account or block execute for clients.
Three ways in
Whether you have never written a line of code or you have been running your own system for years, there is a route into the same execution stack.
Option one
AlgoEX lists systems and CTA programs from independent developers. Each listing shows the account minimum, the developer’s subscription fee and the commission rate, and states whether the results shown are actual or hypothetical. Sort, compare, then decide.
Option two
Already trading a system somewhere else? Running a system on a machine at home? Move it into a high-proximity environment that stays up when your internet does not. We support the major platforms, can work from your existing code or with your existing provider.
Option three
Bring a ruleset, a spreadsheet or a set of conditions you have been trading by hand. Our programmers turn it into executable code and test it against historical data before any capital is committed.
How it works
No part of this requires you to write code, manage a server, or babysit a platform overnight.
A futures account in your name, carried at the clearing FCM. Applications are electronic and typically take as little as a day from submission to funded.
Pick your system on AlgoEX and complete the subscription. Point us to another strategy — we can work with almost anyone. Or scope what you want and we’ll wire it.
Your strategy is deployed to a proximity-hosted server and connected to your account through our own order routing system. Nothing runs on your machine, so nothing stops when your machine does.
Orders, fills and positions appear in your platform and on your statements as they happen. To pause or stop a strategy, just talk to your broker. We’re always available.
What you get
Servers sited at or near the matching engines rather than on a desk in your office. Geographic latency is truncated — shorter paths and fewer hops between signal and fill.
Our trade desk watches hosted strategies during the trading session. If something disconnects or behaves unexpectedly, brokers stand ready to fix connections, manage positions and spin up fail-overs.
Run more than one system in master/sub account structures, maximizing margin efficiency. Allocations and position sizing are set up with the desk.
Positions, fills and P&L across every strategy in one place, alongside your FCM statements.
Unlike managed futures, you are in charge of your trading. Start and stop strategies at your discretion, change trading size and more. You’re in control.
A direct line to people who trade these markets, not a ticket queue. US market support with global desk handoffs for overnight hours.
Platform agnostic We support the platform you already trade on — not the other way around.
Questions
You select the system, and the system generates the orders. BTR executes those orders in accordance with your pre-selected quantities. The orders are system generated and BTR managed according to your instructions. The account is opened in your name and carried at the clearing FCM.
For AlgoEX strategies, you pay the developer’s subscription fee and commissions on the orders executed. There are no data or platform fees of any kind. For custom strategies you typically only pay for orders executed — no setup, data or server fees, unless your strategy requires heavy workloads or new data feeds.
It is set per system by the developer, not by BTR, and it is published on each AlgoEX listing. Minimums vary widely depending on the markets traded and the position sizing the strategy uses.
Yes, subject to the margin in your account. Running several uncorrelated systems is a common approach, though it does not eliminate the risk of loss. Talk to the desk about sizing before you stack programs.
You can stop it. There is no lock-up and no minimum term on the hosting side. Systematic strategies will go through losing periods — a drawdown is a feature, not a bug, and not by itself evidence that something has broken.
No. Hosting addresses the operational side — connectivity, uptime and order routing. It does not change the market risk of the strategy itself. Futures trading carries the risk of substantial loss regardless of how the orders are sent.
Each listing states whether the results shown are actual or hypothetical, and carries its own disclosures. Read them. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, and hypothetical results have inherent limitations.
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. Diversification does not assure a profit or protect against loss in declining markets. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
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.
