Chicago Board of Exchange Incorporated (CBOE)
Website: www.cboe.com

Chicago Board of Exchange Incorporated (CBOE) founded in 1973, is the world's largest options risks management marketplace and the creator of standardized, listed options. CBOE lists options on over 1,400 individual stocks. 40 cash-settled indexes such as the S&P 500 (ticker symbol SPX) and 30 exchange-traded funds including QQQ and DIA. CBOE options are regulated by the SEC and cleared by the triple-A-rated Options Clearing Corporation.

Solace Systems
Website: www.solacesystems.com

Solace Systems is the leading provider of hardware-based middleware, delivering message routers that enable computer systems to share and distribute information at very high speed. Solace’s message routers are 10 to 100 times faster than competitive solutions, with performance that’s consistent even in the most demanding circumstances. As purpose-built appliances, Solace’s message routers also cost less to deploy and operate than software-based solutions. Solace hardware has been successfully implemented by global leaders in markets such as financial services, government, telecommunications and utility computing.

Tick Data
Website: www.tickdata.com

Tick Data, a division of Nexa Technologies, Inc., provides clean, reliable historical intraday time series data for the equity, options, and futures markets. Tick Data employs proprietary compression algorithms, price-filtering techniques, and ticker symbol mapping processes to produce research-ready historical data. From efficient data collection and distribution to seamless integration with third-party analytical software, the Tick Data division removes the frustration from building and maintaining historical databases.

Best Choice Software
Website: www.bestchoicesoftware.com

Best Choice is a unique, exclusive, world-class, five part, decision-making stock market software that does what no other software can do: it eliminates the human emotion of what to buy, when to buy, and pulling the trigger. Using the most advanced search engine ever created, Best Choice will find the best stocks for long-term investing, stocks ready to break out the day before it happens for swing trading, analyze all stocks for strategic option plays, and, with the newest cycles development, search stocks for seasonal patterns with 90-100% proven directional movements. For mutual funds, Best Choice will display when to buy and when to sell. Using the exclusive "extreme percent" learn how to buy stocks or mutual funds at the bottom and take profits at the top of the move. Best Choice conducts a stock market seminar following each trade show, where the program is presented in great detail.

FINCAD
Website: www.fincad.com

FINCAD provides software, market data and consulting services that support the valuation and risk management of financial derivatives and other securities. FINCAD’s cross-asset analytics library provides comprehensive coverage of vanilla and exotic credit, foreign exchange, interest rate, fixed income, volatility, commodity, and equity derivatives. FINCAD Analytics is available as a solution through Microsoft® Excel or through Developer APIs. Used by more than 35,000 finance professionals in over 80 countries, FINCAD customers and partners include banks, corporate treasuries, hedge funds, asset management firms, auditors, and governments. Over 70 FINCAD Alliance Partners embed FINCAD Analytics within their solutions. FINCAD provides sales and client services from Dublin, Ireland and Vancouver, Canada.

thinkorswim
Website: www.thinkorswim.com

thinkorswim, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Chicago, is a leading online brokerage company specializing in options. We support retail and institutional traders through our own trading platforms which are widely recognized as some of the industry’s best for execution, professional analytics and real-time position management.

Chicago Board of Exchange Incorporated (CBOE)

Chicago Board of Exchange Incorporated (CBOE) founded in 1973, is the world's largest options risks management marketplace and the creator of standardized, listed options. CBOE lists options on over 1,400 individual stocks. 40 cash-settled indexes such as the S&P 500 (ticker symbol SPX) and 30 exchangetraded funds including QQQ and DIA. CBOE options are regulated by the SEC and cleared by the triple-A-rated Options Clearing Corporation.

Credit Suisse Group

Credit Suisse Group operates as a financial services company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Private Banking, Investment Banking, and Asset Management. The Private Banking segment offers advisory services and a range of wealth management solutions, including pension planning, life insurance products, tax planning, and wealth and inheritance advice for the high-net-worth individuals.

Quantitative Services Group (QSG®)
Website: www.qsg.com

Quantitative Services Group (QSG®) helps institutional investors outperform the market by offering a complete suite of premier equity research services, custom stock selection models, and independent trading cost analytics. QSG specializes in providing solutions tailored to each client’s unique investment decision-making process. Products include Pre-Trade Analyst ™, T-cost Pro™ and T-cost Analyst™ trading services, Factor Analyst™, and Virtual Research Analyst™. The details of QSG's client relationships are kept strictly confidential.

Bloomberg Tradebook®

Bloomberg Tradebook® is a leading global agency broker used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market-makers and portfolio managers worldwide. Tradebook provides a comprehensive front-to-back execution, clearing and settlement solution for equities, futures, options and FX instruments.

Bloomberg Tradebook® Options enables you to anonymously trade single stock option and option spread strategies on U.S. Equity and Index options right from your Bloomberg Professional® service.

Xasax Corporation
Website: www.xasax.com

Xasax Corporation provides an ultra-low latency financial network called the Xasax Financial Backbone (XFB). This XFB encompasses the majority of the available liquidity in the US. Xasax services include proximity hosting / co-location; raw and consolidated market data; order routing and execution management systems; Vendor of Record / entitlement solutions, and historical data warehousing. This infrastructure facilitates high-frequency traders, hedge funds, software platform providers and financial service providers.

Orc Software

Orc Software is the leading global provider of powerful solutions for the worldwide financial industry in the critical areas of advanced derivatives trading and low latency connectivity. Orc's competitive edge lies in its depth of knowledge of the derivatives trading world gained by deploying advanced solutions for sophisticated traders for over 20 years.

Ballista Securities

Ballista Securities offers the first-ever electronic equity options liquidity pool for delta-neutral trading, block options transactions and complex strategies. The Ballista platform aggregates public and non-public liquidity, significantly enhancing the institutional options trading experience. Ballista began trading in September 2008 as a private broker/dealer.

OptionMetrics
Website: www.optionmetrics.com

OptionMetrics is the financial industry's premier provider of reliable historical option price data, tools, and analytics. Currently, over 200 institutional subscribers and universities rely on our products as their main source of options pricing, implied volatility calculations, volatility surfaces, and analytics. We enable traders to construct, test, and execute options/derivatives investment strategies and accurately monitor their risk exposure, so that they can make more informed and, ultimately, more profitable investment decisions.