Universal Trader is a mission-critical front office order execution system that provides sophisticated real time trading solutions for listed and OTC equities, options and fixed income securities. The system is a fast, secure, streamlined, and cost-effective order execution application that enables traders to spend their time watching the market, not second-guessing their software or support infrastucture.

Developed by a team of former broker dealer employees and IT specialists, Universal Trader is used by top US marketmakers, and deployed to over 500 broker dealers and institutional investors. Universal Trader can run over the Internet, wireless, and extranet networks, including the ILX broker market data network.

Flexible, fast, stable, and lightweight, these powerful design attributes form the backbone of Universal Trader's proven success in providing secure order entry and order routing capability for equities, options, and fixed income products.

UT Key Points:

• Uncomplicated, streamlined, order execution - UT's trader-friendly order entry screen is intuitive and simple to use
• Extremely fast, UT has less than a one second order latency period
• Reliable, with extremely low system down time as compared to current industry standards
• Supports basket trading for equities and options with import and export functionality
• Supports all common interface protocols into marketmaker's order execution systems
• Proprietary 512-bit encryption protocol guarantees the highest levels of security
• Allows trading of an account from multiple locations by the same user