Institutional Futures Trading

Variance Futures provides high quality futures brokerage for institutional firms, corporate clients and large traders that demand the highest level of trading technologies, clearing, accounts management, reporting services. Our focus is to provide institutional clients the best execution possible to ensure maximum speed and reliability, while minimizing your total transaction costs.

 Prime Brokerage

Variance Futures provides clients with an end to end Prime Brokerage solution including portfolio reporting, direct access trading, trade desk access, portfolio risk analysis and administrative support. Through our relationship with a self-clearing FCM, Prime Brokerage clients receive the benefits of a major institutional clearing firm while taking advantage of our personalized customer service.

 24 Hour Global Execution Desk

Variance Futures makes available a 24 Hour Global execution desk, has the infrastructure and personnel ready to provide institutional clients with excellent execution and market information at a competitive rate. The institutional trading desk is open 24 hours a day from Sunday evening at 5:00 PM New York time to Friday afternoon at 4:00 PM New York time.

 CME Exchange Memberships

There are several types of memberships available that significantly reduce the cost of trading at the CME.
Variance Futures can assist institutional clients and high-volume proprietary traders to with the exchange membership process and become CME ECM or Individual Lessee. CME Exchange members benefit substantially from reduced transaction fees when trading products within that member's division.

 Customized Solutions

• Hedge Funds
• Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA)
• Commodity Pool Operator (CPO)
• Proprietary Trading Groups
• Foreign Introducing Brokers (IB)
• Commercial Grain Traders

 Developer Solutions

• Black Box Trading
• Server Colocation
• Data Center
• TT FIX Adapter Integration
• Algorithmic Trading / Strategy Automation