PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS BUILT BY TRADERS,
FOR TRADERS
In building Ideal, our team drew upon their firsthand experience and lessons learned from leading trading desks and quant groups for over two decades in-house. As experts in both trading and engineering, we were uniquely able to both conceive the ideal solution for optimizing performance and build it exactly as we imagined it. As a result, ours is the only analytics solution that perfectly anticipates trading teams’ needs.
IDEAL FOR SALES
Improve client relationships
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Assess client profitability consistently across asset classes
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View client activity, market data, and economic events together
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Collaborate with team members
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Report high-level summaries for management
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Securely share client TCA reports
IDEAL FOR TRADERS
Increase profitability and understand risks
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Attribute P&L to clients and liquidity providers
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Quantify liquidity provider cost of rejects
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Measure markouts to bespoke and standard time durations
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Compare algo and human performance to benchmarks
IDEAL FOR
TCA
Generate industry-standard reports
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Demonstrate best execution (markouts, off-market trades)
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Share any chart with disclosed or anonymized data
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Visualize algo activity vs. benchmarks
INDEPENDENT TCA — AND SO MUCH MORE
Ideal offers independent TCA reporting, client and counterparty analysis, liquidity management and more in one unified interface. In addition to best execution reporting, our platform provides powerful visualizations and analysis of counterparty behavior over time — flagging potential issues to investigate and surfacing actionable insights for client tiering and flow decisions.
DETAILED DRILLDOWNS
FOR BETTER DECISIONS
​Multiple levels of drilldowns and integrated context on market events empower traders to easily examine and optimize trade activity like never before. Zoom out and see months-long trends, or zoom in and follow trades millisecond by millisecond. With Ideal, traders can understand maker-taker dynamics both over time and at the transaction level, for better-informed decision-making.
BEAUTIFUL, BESPOKE REPORTING
Our platform offers powerful reporting functionality, enabling users to customize the views, fields, and tags to show. The resulting visualizations are polished and professional, arming teams with impactful illustrations that demonstrate issues to focus on and the solutions to implement — whether sharing internally with colleagues or externally with clients.
