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Published: 28 June 2017

We at BTS are committed solely to delivering trading software to the Chicago-based options and futures community, with emphasis on stability, speed, and service. We work on and think only about serving your needs. Meet with us. See our system. You will see how this exclusive focus results in software excellence, knowledgeable and attentive support, and superior value.

Quality Features

The comprehensive BTS platform provides full support for commodity, rate, and index options, highly adaptable volatility controls and risk analysis, and intuitive electronic trading tasking capabilities. Our C#/C++ programming API grants simple, logical links for your proprietary calculations. Our developers’ focus on the derivatives market ensures that our customers perform with a competitive platform and we will continue to provide a powerful edge. As a small, nimble firm, we deliver new functionality more quickly than anyone.

Real Speed

Latency remains critical in today’s increasingly competitive markets. Slower systems will continue to get picked off even more over time. As former market makers, we respect speed. It has always been a design priority. Our Options Quoter benchmark results provide insight into best practices in building and measuring low latency systems, and share some lessons we learned in reducing latency. We think transparency in how we measure is as important as the numbers themselves.

Great Value and Expert Service

At Blue Trading Systems, our low latency, comprehensive trading solutions offer unmatched value. Our experienced support team is dedicated to professional, responsive, proactive assistance with our software. Our customers know they are very important to us, and we know that our success is measured solely by how well we support theirs.

Consider BTS

Have you been hesitant to look at new technology because of sunk cost? We can begin saving you money immediately; give us a call and let us show you how.

Will your current provider continue to invest resources and strive to innovate? We have seen competitors turn their attention away from this market, but we remain focused. Volatility has not been repealed, and we will be standing with you when it returns.

Click here to explore BTS Edge.

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Published: 16 May 2017

By Pedro Pinto

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Latency remains a key concern in options trading. In today's increasingly competitive markets the penalty for slowness is steep and traders whose systems are not designed from the ground up with low latency in mind soon find themselves being picked off by faster competitors. At BTS we understand better than most the importance of speed. As former traders ourselves we have experienced first hand the impact of latency on the bottom line and for this reason we have designed our electronic trading systems from the ground up with speed as a primary concern. In this article we present the results of this effort by benchmarking our Options Quoter, available as part of the BTS Edge System. We begin by describing our benchmark methodology: what Hardware was used, how the BTS Edge system was configured and how we measured quoting latency. Next, we present and briefly discuss our benchmark results. We conclude by discussing some of the lessons we learned in our pursuit of low-latency.

Read more: Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Low-Latency Options Quoting

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Published: 15 May 2017

Latency remains a key concern in options trading. In today's increasingly competitive markets the penalty for slowness is steep: traders whose systems are not designed from the ground up with low latency in mind soon find themselves being picked off by faster competitors.

Join Blue Trading Systems’ Pedro Pinto and Kevin Darby this Wednesday at The Trading Show 2017, where we will be hosting a roundtable on the importance of latency in high performance options trading.

If you can’t make it to the roundtable but would like to receive a copy of our report, send us a note at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will keep you in the loop. Or Contact Us if you would like to know more about BTS Edge, our ultra low latency trading system.

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Published: 11 May 2017

Join Blue Trading Systems’ Pedro Pinto and Kevin Darby at The Trading Show next week, where we will be hosting a roundtable on the importance of latency in high-performance options trading.

The increasingly competitive options market demands systems built from the ground up with low latency in mind. Traders need faster tick to trade latencies to avoid getting picked off by competitors.

We will discuss our benchmark methodology, including the hardware and software used, and how the BTS Edge system was configured to provide numbers consistent with real world scenarios. We will cover what and how we measured, and share what we learned in our pursuit of low-latency.

Blue Trading Systems enhances trading strategies and accelerates quoting times with low latency, agile software solutions. We built our electronic trading system from the ground up for today's demanding markets. Our trading system provides options market makers and proprietary trading firms the reliable, forward-thinking resources they need to gain a competitive edge.

Highly flexible volatility controls allow clients to tune the response to changing market conditions, which leads to more reliable prices and realistic, accurate risk reports. Our risk reports provide a comprehensive survey of your position's exposure to changes in market conditions in a flexible, user-specified format.

If you can’t make it to the roundtable but would like to receive a copy of our report, send us a note at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will keep you in the loop. Or Contact Us if you would like to know more about BTS Edge, our ultra low latency trading system.