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Liquidity, risk shifting, and market information only increase in importance during times of severe market conditions. CTC market makers constantly possess the tools and information necessary to provide liquidity in the event of a market upheaval.

• Our ability to change our valuation model parameters real-time provides our market makers with option values and risk measures that most accurately reflect market conditions.
• Our market making team includes many traders with years of experience trading under a variety of market conditions.

CTC is currently a DPM, Specialist or primary market maker on seven exchanges. We are one of the very few firms that are Lead Market Makers for all of the major equity index options listed at the CBOE.

• In January of 2005, the CBOE awarded CTC the DPM for SPDR options.
• As the specialist in the NDX and MNX, CTC is the #1 rated specialist on the American Stock Exchange.
• CTC is one of seven LMMs supporting the CME’s E-mini options on both the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 indexes.
• As a primary market maker on eCBOT, CTC is responsible for disseminating actionable markets on five-year, ten-year, and thirty-year U.S. Treasury options.
• CTC is the Lead Market Maker in the CBOE S&P 500 three-month variance futures contract, as well as the CBOE Dow Jones VIX futures contract.
• CTC is one of four LMMs for eurodollar options on the CME’s EOS platform.