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Speed is the difference between getting the price that you want and coming second, between getting the price that you want and seeing high slippage.

Retail traders have traditionally had little to no control over how fast their trades are being executed. It's a case of blindly buying and selling and hoping for the best. When something goes wrong you’re reliant on your broker telling you reason X, Y and Z for why they’re not at fault and why you should just suck it up and try again.

ExpressOptions is flipping this dynamic on its head by showing trading details never before seen. We show you the latency on every hop and leg of your order so you can see how our systems and liquidity providers are performing. If our systems and counterparties aren’t up to speed then you have every right to hold us to account.

We are of course happy to do this because we’re not internalising your trades, our interests are aligned, and there is mutual accountability for performance.

Trading Servers

  • Bare metal blades hosted in the Equinix NY4, Secaucus, New Jersey, United States.
  • The Equinix (NY4) Financial Trading Hub is a state-of-the-art network of exchanges, buy and sell side firms, bank and non-bank market makers and HFTs trading servers that are located at Equinix's high-performance data centers.
  • Equinix data centres are known to be the most reliable data centres on earth.

Low-latency Connectivity

  • Direct cross-connects via optical fiber to all trading counterparties and technology providers within the Equinix NY4 ecosystem.
  • We don’t share streams with other brokers. The liquidity and bandwidth is our own for faster order transmission and confirmation times (from trading counterparties).
  • Latency between all systems and counterparties is <1ms.

Transparency = Accountability

  • We show network latency between our trading counterparties and our FIX engine on every trade receipt by the ‘quote sent’ (liquidity provider) and ‘quote received’ (FIX engine) times.
  • We report the round trip execution speeds for both the trading platform and FIX engine for the greatest transparency.
  • You worry about your trading and we’ll take care of the rest.

X-Connect - VPS Co-Location

  • Run automated trading strategies with the lowest possible latency for the best performance.
  • Discretionary traders use virtual desktops for improved connectivity and more precise execution, especially when connected through wireless network or public networks or via substandard connections.
  • <1ms connectivity to our VPS partners in NY4.

Execution Speeds

Market Size Execution Speed (ms)
Forex Majors0-100k19.9
Forex Minors0-100k21.8
Forex Exotics0-100k19.6
Metals0-1 contract27.4
Energies0-1 contract120.8
Indices1 contract97.8
Cryptocurrencies1 contract77.7

Execution Speeds

Class Symbol FillQty 0-100k
CommodityJPN22585.29
CommodityUS3085.1553
CommodityXAGUSD39.5929
CommodityXAUUSD21.2562
CommodityXPDUSD23.1111
CommodityXPTUSD25.4737
CryptoBCHUSD75
CryptoBTCUSD88.02
CryptoETHUSD75.17
CryptoLTCUSD74.5
CryptoXRPUSD75.6667
ForexAUDCAD24.37
ForexAUDCHF18.4
ForexAUDJPY24.22
ForexAUDNZD15.2
ForexAUDSGD7.05
ForexAUDUSD22.15
ForexCADCHF50.34
ForexCADJPY32.17
ForexCHFJPY13.23
ForexEURAUD12.58
ForexEURCAD19.97
ForexEURCHF28.93
ForexEURGBP18.36
ForexEURJPY19.78
ForexEURNOK6.69
ForexEURNZD23.02
ForexEURSEK12.64
ForexEURSGD28.08
ForexEURUSD16.62
ForexGBPAUD21.81
ForexGBPCAD33.93
ForexGBPCHF11.76
ForexGBPJPY17.38
ForexGBPNOK4.29
ForexGBPNZD20.33
ForexGBPSEK7.67
ForexGBPUSD16.28
ForexNZDCAD29.08
ForexNZDCHF8.06
ForexNZDJPY20.1
ForexNZDSGD5.55
ForexNZDUSD17.12
ForexSGDJPY45.81
ForexUSDCAD20.11
ForexUSDCHF19.72
ForexUSDCNH25
ForexUSDJPY24.4
ForexUSDMXN24.88
ForexUSDNOK23.72
ForexUSDSEK19.55
ForexUSDSGD40.91
ForexUSDTRY9.2
ForexUSDZAR32.81
IndicesAUS20068.6
IndicesFRA40119.5
IndicesGER30113.29
IndicesHK5068.83
IndicesNAS100119.38
IndicesUK100114.16
IndicesUKOIL116.43
IndicesUS500106.37
IndicesXTI125.1867

What Traders are Saying

  • <1 ms
    Execution from
  • <25 ms
    Avg. FX Execution
  • 0.1 pips
    Avg. EURUSD spread
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