FlexTrade Systems, Inc., the provider of multi-asset, broker-neutral execution and order management systems, has introduced two new trading solutions for its FlexOPT options trading repertoire: FlexOPT-RM, an advanced risk management and stress testing platform, and FlexOPT-OMM, a flexible order-driven market making platform.

According to Vijay Kedia, president and CEO of FlexTrade, FlexOPT-RM and FlexOPT-OMM represent the next generation in the company's options offering. "We've had a primary options OMS & EMS platform called FlexOPT for a number of years now," he said. "But with the growth and complexity of electronic trading in options, the need for additional platforms became apparent."

FlexOPT-RM
Offers comprehensive real-time risk and stress analysis whereby traders can analyze risk by portfolios, sectors, traders, accounts or any level of aggregation/hierarchy. Primary features include:

* An open architecture with API interface to integrate valuation models, volatilities and interest rates.
* Graphic analysis and review of P&L as well as the contribution to P&L from Greeks, such as Delta, Gamma, Vega and Theta.
* The capability to slice and dice your portfolio by underlying, expiration, account, etc., or to analyze your entire portfolio.
* Stress tests defined in terms of spot and volatility shifts and the ability for traders to review the impact on their Delta, Gamma, Vega, etc., projected at multiple future dates.
* Volatility surfaces for risk and stress analysis are computed in near real-time.
* The capability to drill down to specific stress scenarios or graphically review a range of stress scenarios.
* Testing of possible scenarios by adding candidate trades and viewing the affect on risk and stress testing.

FlexOPT-OMM
A flexible order-driven market making platform for advanced options traders. It provides a comprehensive user interface for configuring an order strategy. The pricing engine can be customized by the trader and loaded into the system as a dynamic module. Positions can be grouped and viewed at various levels, and risk limits enable the trader to manage risk in real-time. The risk limits can be specified for position quantities, as well as Greeks such as Delta, Gamma and Vega. Primary features include:

* Ability to load option chains based on underlying symbol, expiry date and strike price.
* Ability to preload a portfolio from the prior day, carryover of previous positions.
* Customizable pricing model and hedging strategy.
* Customizable volatility model with intuitive and powerful GUI to manage volatility curves.
* A simple GUI to start and stop order-quoting for individual contracts or all contracts collectively.
* A "test" mode to check orders without submitting to an exchange.
* Flexible rules to replace orders (based on the magnitude of the price change).
* Adjustable reinstatement logic to replenish orders that have been filled.
* Customized selection of underlying instruments (e.g., a futures contract can be chosen as the underlying proxy instrument for cash options).
* Ability to select the underlying instrument on the basis of liquidity.
* Risk limits for positions and Greeks, at contract, strike, expiry and underlying level.
* Hypothetical scenarios to plot P&L based on variations in underlying price, volatility and Greeks.
* System configuration settings stored in XML file format, which can be loaded and viewed in any XML browser.