Financial
Reuters Trading for Exchanges
Simplify your trading activities. Reuters Trading for Exchanges enables Reuters 3000 Xtra users to create and route orders to a choice of executing/clearing Brokers, using the prices they see on the desktop, for any exchange-traded instruments including Equities, Financial Futures and Commodities and Energy derivatives.
Find out more by viewing the RTEx demo
With Reuters Trading for Exchanges, you can:
- Electronically trade the world's most liquid markets – via our partnership with a number of the world's leading execution and clearing brokers
- Streamline your workflow with a single, 'transaction enabled' desktop – navigate from analysis to price discovery, trade execution and back through a single service
- Simplify the trading process – route orders to multiple brokers and receive a single, consolidated feed of trade confirmations
- Get support for your trading strategy and access to algorithmic models – from leading brokers
- Communicate instantly with brokers – with Reuters Messaging integrated into the workflow, you can quickly request information from a broker with messages that are secure and archived
- Get started quickly and easily – Reuters Trading for Exchanges is a 'zero install' service so you can start trading straight away, subject to the necessary trading relationships
Why choose Reuters Trading for Exchanges?
- Global, broker-neutral trading for any exchange-traded instruments – route your trading volume to the execution/clearing broker of your choice
- Single sign-on to trade with multiple parties – login to the trading application once to trade with your brokers
- One product for research, analysis, price discovery, trading and monitoring – create and send orders directly from your existing information displays or from the Thomson Reuters-designed customized worksheet to help you get started quickly
- Trade multiple asset classes from a single desktop – ability to trade any exchange traded instruments including equities, options, futures and commodity and energy derivatives
- Customized order types and content from your brokers – access market specific order types and other information that is offered and supported by your broker
- Access to your broker's latest trading models – access the latest trading models developed by your broker, such as VWAP or algorithmic trading engines
- Complete blotter application to monitor your trades – Integrated application to view trades as they execute, export to other applications and see an audit trail of activity
- View and act on other user's orders – appropriately permissioned users are able to view and act on orders submitted by other users on your desk or company
Minimum Requirements of Reuters 3000 Xtra v4.5.2:
Hardware:
- Pentium processor 500MHz (min) 650MHz or above (recommended)
- 256Mb (min) 512Mb or above of R.A.M. (recommended)
- Disk space (made available for virtual memory): 384Mb (min) 768Mb or above (recommended)
- Temp internet folder: 50Mb (min) 500Mb (recommended)
Software (supported operating systems):
- Microsoft Windows® 2000 (SR 2 or above)
- Microsoft Windows® XP (SR1 or above)
- Web Browsers or Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer® v5.5 SR2 and above
Sun Java JRE (JVM):
Sun have many versions of their JRE, we will test the most popular and the latest available.
v1.4.2_09
v1.4.2_10
Microsoft JVM:
As Microsoft no longer maintain their JVM we will only test the last released version.
Build 13810 Version recommended 1.1.






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