Hybrid Exchange Platform Routing Orders to Trading Floor
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic trading platforms face challenges in efficiently facilitating both electronic and open outcry trading methods, particularly in handling complex orders and providing deep liquidity, while ensuring secure and real-time order execution and reporting.
Innovation Solution
A hybrid exchange platform that combines electronic trading with open outcry trading by establishing a secure connection with market participants, routing orders to the trading floor, and facilitating transactions through a matching engine that supports both electronic and in-person order matching, enabling secure and efficient execution of orders.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If electronic trading platforms use algorithmic processing for real-time trade execution, then trading speed and efficiency are improved, but the ability to handle complex orders and provide deep liquidity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments order handling into two distinct pathways: electronic algorithmic processing for standard orders, and human broker intervention for complex orders. This segmentation allows each pathway to optimize for its specific function, maintaining high speed for routine trades while providing expert judgment for complex transactions.
Solution Approach 2:
Human brokers act as intermediaries between electronic trading systems and complex order requirements. The hybrid model introduces human judgment as a mediator that can interpret nuanced market conditions and execute complex orders that algorithmic systems cannot handle effectively.
2Reliability
If electronic exchanges match bids and offers based on price-time priority and FIFO principles, then order execution fairness is improved, but the ability to provide deep liquidity and accommodate complex trading strategies deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different matching principles to different order types and market conditions. Standard orders receive automated price-time priority matching for fairness, while complex orders are routed to human brokers who can provide nuanced judgment and deeper liquidity when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The hybrid exchange dynamically adjusts the order matching mechanism based on order complexity and market conditions. The system can switch between automated electronic matching and human broker facilitation, providing flexibility to optimize both fairness and liquidity provision.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a hybrid exchange platform combines electronic and open outcry trading mechanisms, then adaptability to different trading styles is improved, but system complexity and difficulty of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic system serves as an intermediary that automatically routes orders to the appropriate trading venue (electronic or open outcry) based on predefined criteria. This intermediary function shields users from the complexity of managing multiple trading systems, as the routing logic is handled automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The hybrid platform provides a universal interface that accepts all order types and automatically determines the optimal execution pathway. Users interact with a single unified system that can handle both electronic and open outcry trading, eliminating the need for separate operational procedures.
4Quantity of substance
If the hybrid platform routes orders to both electronic systems and trading floor participants, then liquidity depth and market coverage are improved, but transaction time and processing complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the liquidity pool into electronic liquidity from automated market makers and human liquidity from floor brokers. Orders are routed to the segment that can execute most efficiently, rather than sequentially contacting both, thereby maintaining speed while accessing diverse liquidity sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system attempts electronic execution first for the portion of the order that can be filled electronically, then routes the remaining portion to the trading floor. This partial action approach ensures that the executable portion is filled quickly while still providing an opportunity for additional liquidity from human brokers.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and techniques are disclosed for an exchange platform that runs a hybrid market model combining electronic trading and open outcry trading. In some implementations, a secure connection is established with each of a plurality of market participants associated with a trading floor. A transaction order for a financial instrument is received from a connected device. The transaction order includes a routing instruction for routing the transaction order to the trading floor. A market participant to which the transaction order is to be routed is identified. The transaction order is routed to the market participant. Information that one or more in-crowd market participants have accepted the transaction order is received. The transaction order is facilitated based on the information that the one or more in-crowd market participants have accepted the transaction order.