It's a Wired World, Trade It

Sophisticated front-end trading applications are driving trading activity - with nearly half of all futures markets trades in 2007 currently transacted through trading platforms – including market making and quantitative black-box trading activities – a figure estimated to reach 90% of total activity by 2010, the market for trading platforms capable of managing sophisticated trading demands will continue to grow. According to TABB Group, “the futures markets in 2010 will be dominated completely by automated trading as the few remaining pits finally transition to fully electronic markets and voice trading with clients becomes merely a small minority of total activity.”

Futures trading-system programmers are delivering innovative technologies and functionalities geared specifically to the needs of the new breed of futures traders to meet this demand. Demand for sophisticated functionality leveraging the capability of the futures market structure will continue unabated, coming from all sides of the market, from the largest market makers and hedge funds, to the independent trader.

As the futures markets become increasingly complex, market structure, trading strategies and investor participation are all under radical transformation and what was once a regionalized market for locals has evolved into a dynamic trading bazaar worldwide. Today, a trader in Chicago is as likely to be trading futures on Germany's Eurex as he is in CME's hog pits.

With the race to provide new and innovative tools for traders growing more competitive, functionality once the proprietary domain of secretive firms and market makers has been adapted for the everyday user.

That's why Zaner makes powerful, sophisticated online futures trading accessible and convenient. Our goal is to give you the best available online trading tools and information to help you quickly enter orders and spot and track potential opportunities.