Excellent Executions
The best ideas in the market mean nothing without excellent execution, technology and client service to back you up.
You know what you need to successfully execute your hedge fund’s trading strategy:
Speed, Flexibility, Liquidity, Anonymity, and Market access.
We understand the dynamics of a flexible prime broker relationship and support your commitment to trading excellence and know to identify how futures trading can enhance Fund's existing strategies.
Trade with confidence with Variance Futures.
Hedge Fund managers can expect the highest level of futures execution and clearing services for almost every futures product traded around the world.

Reach Broad Products
Variance Futures is committed to a broad product distribution to ensure the best possible execution, technology and ongoing support. We offer experience you can trust for the long run.
Your account will be managed at a self-clearing FCM who is also a member of:

• CBOT®
• CME®
• EUREX
• EUREXUS
• Euronext.liffe
• Euronext Paris
• Intercontinental Exchange
• International Petroleum Exchange
• Minneapolis Grain Exchange

Our Added Value
Hedge fund managers can enjoy our relationship-oriented approach along with a solid knowledge of the hedge fund industry and institutional sector. We work with you to help your hedge fund achieve its objectives. We have the talent, trading intelligence and the technology needed to provide a global reach to service our client's needs.
Lower Capital Requirements and Commissions
Trading with futures provides you with the ability to wisely use leverage and incur lower commissions than the equity equivalent.
Capturing Alpha
Neutralizing beta is always a challenge. Using financial futures offers an efficient way to capture market-neutral alpha without losing the benefits of your long/short equity bias.

Variance Futures can work with a hedge fund manager in number of ways by providing a suite of value-added institutional services to facilitate their needs:

• Detailed Reporting - Easy to understand and customizable statements; accurate reporting of fills, cancels and rejects; timely fill reports and status on open orders; timely position reports; efficient processing of wires, deposits, withdrawals as well as accurate reporting of account balances, commissions and fees.
• Prime Brokerage Solutions - Access to prime brokerage services through our affiliated FCM.
• Automated Front-End Solutions - Maximum trading efficiency with the most advanced futures front-end solutions for timely execution of all electronic and pit-traded contracts.
• Extensive Server infrastructure - Strongly positioned to Variance large volumes of electronic and pit-traded futures transactions, maximum redundancy to protect your orders and facilitate the execution of your trades.
• TT FIX Adapter Integration expertise
• Server Colocation & Black Box Hosting - Colocate your servers or black box system in our off-site data centers for maximum speed, redundancy and efficiency and more reliable exchange connectivity and execution.
• Black Box Programming - Access to programmers that can assist your institution with black box hosting, black box programming, algorithmic strategy development, strategy automation and back testing.
• 24-Hour Trading Desk - Monitors your orders to ensure accurate execution at the best available prices, making sure all price improvements are gained by your institution.
• Multiple layers of integrated technical support - Guidance and support on futures platforms.
• Global Futures News & Currency Research - Access to proprietary and institutional research that offers highly-respected, authoritative and timely analysis of the futures and commodities markets.
• Risk Management - Team monitors trading activities and overall market trends to effectively measure and manage risk, creating an environment where capital is secure and available for use by our clients.

Single Account or Multiple Sub-Accounts

If your hedge fund have a few or many traders, and require a single or multiple accounts structure, Variance Futures can provide the technology needed for a hedge fund manager to stay competitive and delegate the trading activities to his traders, but still stay in full control.

Multiple Accounts Easily open sub accounts for each trader in the hedge fund and set each sub account with its own margin limits. Use master trading account for funding, trading and supervising your other sub accounts. Fund traders can separately be assigned a set of functions (trading, funding, report management) as well as Supervisory over a group of other master/sub accounts. Master account supervisor user can enter new orders, change limits, cancel pending orders and fully control trades in the master or sub accounts. Master account supervisor deposit all funds in the master account and are able to transfer funds between the master and sub accounts to control each trader limits.

Single Account All trading activity are done on a single trading account with one or more traders. Supervisor user can view/modify other traders' activity. Fund traders are each assigned a set of functions (trading, funding, report management). Account supervisor may add sub accounts at any time by contact our accounts department, and transform single master account into multiple sub accounts structure.