Ballista Securities, LLC

ballista securities, a privately held company conceived in early 2007, is dedicated to advancing the execution of institutional options trading, specifically delta-neutral strategies, complex transactions and directional option trades. the ballista alternative trading system (ats) offers institutional equity options traders a level playing field for the execution of these types of trades. with an innovative, two-phase auction and negotiation functionality, the goal of ballista ats is to offer liquidity seekers unprecedented efficiency and a direct communication link to liquidity providers. ballista offers specialty order types to help limit information leakage, while at the same time tapping into deep liquidity through a pool of vetted manual and electronic liquidity providers. users may use the ballista ats through multiple execution pathways, including ballista’s own intuitive front-end trading platform; a fix-based interface supporting programmatic order flow; or a variety of oms, e