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Portfolio Trading

PulsePTG is the New York-based portfolio trading (program trading) division of Pulse Trading, Inc., a national agency brokerage firm that trades exclusively for institutional investors. In today’s markets, where speed and efficiency are growing ever more important, Pulse offers an ideal combination of sophisticated trade strategies and advanced technology to achieve optimal performance with your portfolio.

Driven by increasing interest in quantitative techniques and benchmark-tracking, PulsePTG’s services benefit from the dedicated, unbiased electronic trading methods pioneered by Pulse Trading and algorithms and trading methods that are unique to PulsePTG.  

Portfolio Trading Evolution: By taking full advantage of recent advances in execution management technologies and pre-trade analytics, our traders can segment and execute sub-strategies across lists and dynamically monitor execution progress vs. benchmarks to quickly recognize and take advantage of liquidity opportunities in every available trading venue.

The Human Element: We combine the advantages of automated portfolio trading with those of individual active trading. Portfolios are screened constantly to identify problem orders that are removed for individual attention by Pulse’s experienced traders to avoid the high costs incurred by trading these outliers automatically.

Flex TQM: PulsePTG offers a wide range of transaction cost analysis tools for your equity trading. Our Ptr/Post Trade analysis provides a wide range of benchmarks and measures for use in evaluating transaction costs, market impact and value at risk analysis.

FlexDMA: PulsePTG provides its buyside clients with FlexDMA from FlexTrade Systems, Inc. as its primary direct market access connection to multiple points of trade execution. An institution’s orders are submitted directly to the selected exchange, ECN or ATS market center via smart order technology and proprietary fix link, seamlessly to the FlexDMA hosted site. As always, anonymity is guaranteed.

Outsource with Confidence: Pulse PTG, as with all Pulse services, is completely free from conflicts of interest.  Unlike firms with position/market making desks and ownership in trading platforms, we seek the most advantageous venue for our clients first and always.  We are a smart choice for portfolios.

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