Execution Services - Optimal Markets

Advanced Options Execution Services

Optimal fuels institutional options desks with sophisticated algorithms, smart routing and flexible workflows – all delivered through a platform engineered for performance and scale.

Optimal | Execution Services

Options trading algorithms

Whether you’re looking to sweep the market, trade spreads or passively accumulate liquidity over time, our algo suite delivers the power, precision and control you need.

Power

Robust options execution algorithms

Precision

Support for all order types, capacities and options strategies

Control

Customizable algorithms to match your trading style or build bespoke logic around your needs

Options smart order routing

Our proprietary smart order router dynamically scans liquidity venues to minimize costs and maximize execution opportunity.

Full market coverage

Connectivity to all U.S. options exchanges

Economic efficiencies

Exchange fee/rebate optimization

Real-time control
and capabilities

Real-time monitoring and re-routing when necessary

Optimal by the Numbers

Easy integration.
Full operational support.

No matter your infrastructure, internal tools or trading strategy, we make options execution seamless.

Easy integration

Connect via FIX or API, with 10+ OMS/EMS providers certified

Operational efficiency

Clearing, post-trade processing and regulatory reporting support

Dedicated client service

Quickly reach our experts and technologists via phone, email or chat

Proven options execution infrastructure

Our options ATS and tech stack are powered by low-latency matching technology, optimized over ten years while in production within a high-frequency trading firm.

Co-located in major datacenters and connected with every U.S. options exchange, it delivers the speed and reliability institutional desks need to trade options efficiently.

The result:
best execution

Our options execution services deliver high-quality quantity capture when removing liquidity – helping you drive market efficiency and protect your bottom line. Our best execution reports, available natively via our blotter, capture price improvement %, at-or-better %, quoted vs. effective width, execution speed and more.

Optimal is where transparency meets results.