Sydney Futures Exchange Announces Plans To Offer Direct Trading Access To Customers of Trading Technologies And X_TRADER

Sydney Futures Exchange announced today the addition of Independent Software Vendor, Trading Technologies and their order-entry platform X_TRADER, to the list of independent software vendors (ISV’s) providing direct trading access to the SFE. There are now 13 ISV’s certified to offer Sydney Futures Exchange products.

“There has been significant demand for TT’s services, particularly from the high velocity traders in the proprietary, CTA and Hedgefund sectors,” said Jeremy Johnston, General Manager, Sales and Marketing. “The inclusion of Trading Technologies will provide even greater choice for these users when trading SFE products.”

The link to SFE will be established using the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol, which will be written, marketed and supported by Trading Technologies.

It is expected that this connection will allow all TT customers to trade SFE products on the TT platform, X_TRADER, before the end of 2005.