FlexTrade Named Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform 2019

— Wins Category for 3rd Consecutive Year —

FlexTrade Systems today announced its FlexTRADER EMS was named Best Automated Trading Platform during this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards luncheon, which was held by WatersTechnology at the Corinthia Hotel in London on April 12.

FlexTRADER was chosen for the award after a careful review by WatersTechnology’s senior editors and journalists.  Winners were presented with their awards by Captain Louis Rudd MBE, a veteran of multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who recently completed a historic solo, unsupported trek across Antartica.

FlexTRADER is a fully customizable execution management system (EMS) with pre-defined trading strategies and tactics for portfolio and single stock trading across all asset classes, including equities, FX, options, futures and fixed income. Used by leading sell-side institutions and program trading desks, the platform facilitates in-bound DMA or algorithmic orders from multiple buy-side institutions via all versions of FIX. It also provides out-of-the-box cross asset trading strategies, global access to broker algorithms, as well as the ability to build proprietary algorithms.

Recent industry awards attained by FlexTrade include:

• Best Overall Trading Platform for Innovation by Fund Technology and WSL Awards 2019.
• EMS Best Product Adaptability Award by The Trade’s Leaders in Trading Awards on November 23.
• Best Buy-Side EMS by Waters Buy-Side Technology Awards on November 2.
• Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm (Trading & Risk) by Waters Buy-Side Technology Awards on November 2.
• Best Execution Management (EMS) and Best FX Trading Platform by the Mutual Fund Service and Technology Awards on October 5.