Equity Trading
Equity Trading

Pershing gives you the freedom to trade the way that is right for you. You are always just a phone call or click away from a wide range of specialized trading desks offering exceptional high-touch service from professionals who are ready to work your order, answer your inquiries, and offer customized support. Additionally, you can execute electronically through a choice of proprietary and third-party platforms offering advanced capabilities, such as algorithmic trading. Either way, you can take full advantage of Pershing's comprehensive, end-to-end trading solutions.

Equity Desks and Services

  • Agency Sales-Trading Desk provides personal attention for listed and over-the-counter (OTC) executions and seeks optimal liquidity with minimal market impact
  • Access to New York Stock Exchange® Direct
  • Agency-Only Options Trading Desk focuses on adding value to large or complex orders—such as spreads, straddles, buy-writes, stock or index contingent orders, and delta neutral trades—for customers ranging from electronic retail order flow to sophisticated institutional traders. Pershing is connected to all option venues and four smart routers
  • Electronic trading platforms offer you a choice of liquidity management solutions, such as proprietary tools with sophisticated features, including a best-in-breed algorithmic trading engine, leading third-party order management systems, execution management systems, and direct market access platforms that include dark pool access and aggregation
  • Our Foreign Equity Desk offers non-U.S. dollar execution capabilities on more than 65 exchanges, with settlement in local or U.S. currency, 24-hour availability, and Financial Information Exchange (FIX) connectivity for straight-through processing
  • Our Foreign Exchange Desk offers specialized expertise in more than 50 currencies, 24-hour availability, and support for spot and forward transactions and cross-currency trading
  • Market making in more than 5,000 stocks, utilizing a state-of-the-art quantitative models to provide best execution and additional liquidity
  • Support desks offer expert assistance in a range of specialized areas, such as non-U.S. dollar transactions and electronic orders
 

Powerful Capabilities

Our team of knowledgeable professionals, open-architecture approach to technology, and unrivaled service and support can help you meet the demands of global equities and options markets.

Equities

Take advantage of our execution capabilities on more than 65 exchanges through local relationships, extensive market knowledge, and an agency-only approach that puts your interests first. Our experienced traders handle listed U.S. equities, American Depository Receipts, and foreign ordinary shares in 26 countries.

Direct Access to Liquidity

Our institutional equities and options platforms offer open-architecture solutions for direct market access and execution management, plus sophisticated tools for straight-through processing and advanced order routing.