RISK MANAGEMENT
ISE Risk Management
ISE Holdings leads the industry in offering a comprehensive portfolio of risk
management capabilities for orders that are routed to ISE and ISE GeminiTM.
In addition to our extensive elective risk management features, which enable firms to
customize their risk protections, ISE and ISE Gemini also offer “built-in” protections
that are automatically deployed for every order that is routed to our exchanges.
For more information on any of
these features or for assistance
in establishing or adjusting your
risk settings, please contact the
Business Development Team
at bizdev@ise.com.
ISE’s innovative trading architecture T7™ automatically provides additional risk management features specific to ISE and ISE Gemini.
Automatic Risk Management Features
Interface:
DTI (API),
FIX, PrecISE
Trigger
Feature
Description
Price Limit Check
• Regular or Complex orders entered through the exchange BBO by the greater of $1.00 or
1% during the regular market trading state will be rejected
All
Automatic
Market Order Lock
• Remaining quantity of a Customer market order will be locked to the PMM for controlled
order handling if it exhausts the ISE or ISE Gemini book. Professional Customer and
non-Customer orders are cancelled.
All
Automatic
Limit Up Limit Down
Protections (LULD)
• Prevents Market orders from executing and Stop orders from triggering during Limit Up
Limit Down states
All
Automatic
Vertical Spread Check
• Non-crossing vertical spreads entered with a negative limit price will be rejected
• Non-crossing vertical spreads to sell are prevented from legging if the net trade would result
in a negative price
• Non-crossing vertical spreads with a net price greater than the value of the higher strike
price minus the lower strike price will be rejected
• Non-crossing vertical spreads entered as market orders to buy will not execute at a price
that is greater than the value of the higher strike price minus the lower strike price
All
Automatic
Calendar
Spread Check
• Non-crossing calendar spreads entered with a net price less than zero will be rejected
• Non-crossing calendar spreads entered as market orders to sell will not execute at a price
that is less than zero. A pre-set price buffer may be applied to the net price value.
All
Automatic
Spread Trade
Through Limit
• Individual spread legs will not trade through the NBBO by more than $0.05 per leg,
including stock
All
Automatic
Away Market
Better Lock
• A Limit or Market order that would execute through the away market BBO will not trade
upon entry. Orders for all client categories are eligible to be routed away via linkage.
All
Automatic
Three-Tick Lock
• A Limit or Market order that would execute at multiple prices upon entry will trade a
maximum of three consecutive price ticks.
For Priority Customer orders, remaining quantity
is locked to the PMM for controlled order handling. Remaining quantity for Professional
Customer and non-Customer orders is cancelled.
All
Automatic
Session Disconnect
• All quotes for a session are automatically deleted when that session disconnects
DTI
Automatic
Elective Risk Management Features
Interface:
DTI (API),
FIX, PrecISE
Trigger
Feature
Description
Order and Trade
Drop-Copy Reporting
• FIX Order and Trade Drop Copy reports are available for orders routed via DTI, FIX, and
PrecISE, allowing for enhanced risk management and more efficient order and trade
information maintenance
All
Automatic*
Kill Switch
• Simultaneously cancels all orders and prevents new orders from being accepted without
disconnect
• PrecISE can be used to activate Kill Switch for DTI, FIX and PrecISE Business Units
All
Member
Initiated
Cancel on Disconnect
• All orders for a session are automatically deleted when that session disconnects
FIX
DTI
Automatic*
CONTINUED
. Interface:
DTI (API),
FIX, PrecISE
Elective Risk Management Features
Feature
Description
Execution-Based
Order Entry Limits
• Maximum Quantity per Order: Prevents orders that exceed a pre-defined maximum quantity
per order from being accepted by the Exchange
• Maximum Quantity per Day: Prevents orders that exceed a pre-defined total quantity per
trading day from being accepted by the Exchange
• Maximum Notional Value per Order: Prevents orders that exceed a pre-defined maximum
option notional value per order from being accepted by the Exchange. Market orders will be
rejected for FIX connections with maximum notional value defined.
• Maximum Notional Value per Day: Prevents orders that exceed a pre-defined total option
notional value per trading day from being accepted by the Exchange. Market orders will be
rejected for FIX connections with maximum notional value defined.
• Restricted Securities (PrecISE): Prevents orders that are a part of a specified restricted list
of securities
• Reject Pre-Open Orders (PrecISE): Prevents orders that are entered before the open of the
market
• Locate Code Required (PrecISE): Requires a locate code value for orders with a short-sale
stock component prior to submission to the Exchange
• All settings adjustable in real-time
FIX
PrecISE
Automatic
(Configured by
Member or ISE)
Do Not Trade Through
(DNTT)
• Non-crossing multi-leg orders designated as DNTT will not trade through the NBBO on any
leg of the order, including stock
All
Automatic
(Configured by
Member or ISE)
Risk Administrator
PrecISE Terminal
• Designated PrecISE User with real-time access to risk management settings and controls
PrecISE
N/A
Supervisor PrecISE
Terminal
• Designated PrecISE User able to view and manage all PrecISE, FIX and DTI entered orders
and trades
All
N/A
PrecISE
Automatic
PrecISE GUI
Pop-Up Warnings
A
PrecISE requires trader confirmation
prior to order submission.
PrecISE users can set a ‘soft warning’ for maximum
quantity. This does not prevent order submission.
C
Trigger
B
PrecISE users receive an additional warning when
the order is above/below the ISE bid/offer.
PrecISE
User Report
• Posted to the member FTP site, includes user account information for audit records.
The report
includes access type, maximum quantity per order and per day, maximum notional value per
order and per day, restricted product lists and the Risk Admin who edited the settings.
PrecISE
Member
Initiated
Compliance
Acknowledgement
Message
• Forces users to acknowledge compliance with internal risk policies and procedures prior to
application startup
PrecISE
Automatic*
Daily Products and
Instruments Files
• Provides an independent resource for checking data integrity between member reference
data and ISE reference data
DTI
Member
Initiated
Coming Soon:
Underlying Price
Contingency (UPC) for
Complex Orders
• Complex orders entered with underlying price contingencies will only execute if the
underlying instrument is trading within the specified price range
All
Automatic
(Configured by
Member)
*Configured by ISE.
ISE Business Development
EMAIL: bizdev@ise.com
PHONE: 212-897-8171
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