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Functionality and Features

For commodity trading and risk management professionals, the need for immediate and simple access to bids, offers and concluded trades is undeniable. Whether you’re a trader taking positions, a broker contacting clients or a risk manager monitoring a portfolio, market participants require a complete range of trading, delivery and customizable solutions. TradeCapture OTC, Corp. is one of the world’s most innovative solutions providers for commodity trading and risk management professionals. We are the creator of Tap and Trade the first iPhone and iPod touch application designed specifically for Professional Commodity Traders, Risk Managers, FCMs and Brokers.

Tap and Trade Functionality for Traders, Risk Managers, and FCMs

• Tap and Trade provides professional Commodity Traders and Risk Managers with a powerful and easy to use trading and risk management platform developed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch.
• Traders can Tap and Trade both Futures and OTC orders. Traders can choose to have OTC orders sent automatically for Clearing from the iPhone and iPod touch.
• Risk Managers can monitor multiple Traders simultaneously in real-time for completed trades and open orders from their iPhone or iPod touch.
• Risk Managers and FCMs can receive immediate alerts on their iPhone or iPod touch if a Trading Account is approaching its credit or trading limits.
• FCM Auditing and Reporting
  Tap and Trade provides clearing firms with a daily audit log in csv format that includes a record of all transactions associated with the clearing firm’s trading accounts. This report includes a detailed breakdown of all order activity including placing, modifying, canceling, and filling of orders.
• All Commodities
  Trade Futures contracts on the leading Exchanges as well as virtually any physical commodity or over-the-counter (OTC) instrument such as: Swaps, Linked Transactions, Spreads, Options, and Outrights all from your iPhone or iPod touch.
• Speed
  Trade fast via your iPhone or iPod touch with response times measured in milliseconds for volatile commodity markets.
• Broker Call
  Tap and Trade gives traders the option, if preferred, of tapping to call their Broker and verbally placing an order or executing a deal over their iPhone utilizing their broker.
• End-to-End Solution
  Trade data from the users iPhone and iPod touch can be fed directly into front/middle/back-office systems, and reduce extensive overhead associated with processing transaction details.
• Customization
  Users can quickly and easily setup custom trading screens for easy viewing of various trading strategies and commodities across multiple Exchanges via their iPhone or iPod touch.
• Immediate Access to bids, offers and implieds across multiple markets and exchanges directly from your iPhone or iPod touch.
• Reduced Overhead
  Reduce overhead expenses by utilizing automatic deal confirmations and centralized reporting for trades via the users iPhone and iPod touch.
• Reporting
  Receive online trader summary reports of open orders and completed trades via your iPhone and iPod touch.
• Real-Time
  Work in real-time with real-time messaging of bids, offers, and completed trades directly to your iPhone and iPod touch.
• Secure
  Configurable User security, Transaction Authorization Rules, and Segregation of Duties
• Downloadable
  All trade data and position data can be downloaded into Excel.

Tap and Trade Functionality for Brokers

• White-Label Tap and Trade for your organization in order to complement your voice brokering with a powerful and easy to use iPhone and iPod touch trading platform that you can tailor to fit your needs and the needs of your client base
• Enhance your client relationships with an expanded offering on the fastest growing application platform in the world today – the iPhone and iPod touch.
• Increase your business by showing real-time bids/offers and completed trades to your clients at any location via their iPhone and iPod touch devices.
• Your OTC orders can be sent automatically for Clearing from the iPhone and iPod touch.
• 24/7 Trading
  Broker and Trade anytime, as the Tap and Trade software supports 24/7 global brokering and trading of OTC commodities as well as Futures transactions at the leading Exchanges.
• All OTC Order Types
  Broker virtually any physical commodity or over-the-counter (OTC) instrument such as: Swaps, Linked Transactions, Spreads, Options, and Outrights. Also, manage broker facilitated (on-behalf of) marketplaces and interface with clearinghouses for cleared markets, EFSs and EFPs all from your iPhone or iPod touch.
• Whiteboard
  Whiteboard allows traders, as well as brokers on behalf of traders, to post indicative bids and offers anonymously—with the option, if preferred, of verbally executing the deal over their iPhone with their broker.
• End-to-End Solution
  Feed completed trade data from the users iPhone and iPod touch directly you’re your clients front/middle/back-office systems, and reduce extensive overhead associated with processing transaction details.
• Improved Reporting
  Traders receive real-time summary reports of open orders and completed trades via their iPhone and iPod touch.
• Real-Time
  Work in real-time with real-time messaging of bids, offers, and completed trades to your users via the iPhone and iPod touch.
• Market Making
  Place bids/offers for clients to transact or allow clients to input trades directly on their iPhone and iPod touch.
• Downloadable
  All trade data and position data can be downloaded into Excel.
• Configurable User security, Transaction Authorization Rules, and Segregation of Duties

Benefits of the Tap and Trade System Functionality include:

• Designed by user groups representing both leading Traders, Risk Managers, Brokers, FCMs, and Exchanges in the commodity industry coupled with senior developers and business analysts
• Integrated, full function, single entry design that is extremely user-friendly and intuitive on the iPhone and iPod touch
• Advanced functions for trading and risk management with real-time feeds to back office systems for straight-through-processing
• Functions that support communication among users, both in local and remote offices
• Allows all users to increase their productivity because the system
• Eliminates the manual effort involved previously during off-hours with finding the best market prices available and executing trades offline
• Provides more timely and accurate data and eliminates missed opportunities
• Permits faster response to market changes for traders, risk manager, brokers, and FCMs
• The iPhone and iPod touch deployment model offered by Tap and Trade permits instant access by users via the internet and greatly reduces hardware and communications expenses often associated with new systems installations.