Whether you need high-touch or highly automated trading services, Direct Access Partners delivers.   As an agency-only platform, Direct Access provides conflict free, comprehensive trading support across multiple asset classes.  Our institutional traders focus on best execution and protecting your anonymity. With an average level of trading experience surpassing 18 years each, our traders utilize all available trading tools to access liquidity for our clients, blending a delicate balance of sophisticated algorithmic strategies with direct representation at the point of sale.  The result is an execution which consistently surpasses even the most demanding benchmarks.

If our clients want to use our technology but manage the decision-making process themselves, we can put some of the exact same tools in their hands and they can access the marketplace themselves.  DAP offers a proprietary Execution Management System (EMS) or several other “best of breed” systems which get your order to the market quickly and efficiently, using both simple and sophisticated algorithms.  So whether it’s hands-on or hands-off trading, Direct Access Partners has your trading solution.

Direct Access Partners gives you access to the major equity exchanges while minimizing market impact and optimizing trading. We provide:

• Smart order routing
• Access to sophisticated dark-pools
• A fully integrated, high-performance Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine
• Pre-trade, real-time, and post-trade analytics
• Direct access to the floor of the NYSE, where our brokers use a sophisticated, proprietary order handling system
• A range of DMA platforms for clients who  execute directly