Article: IB Launches Smart-Routing for Equity and Options Spread Orders Across Markets.

GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive Brokers LLC (IB) has launched Inter-market Smart-Routing for Spread Orders, a new service that supports spread strategies for equities and options traded across multiple U.S. markets.

Spread trading -- or simultaneously buying one instrument and selling another -- has gained in popularity, as part of the growth in algorithmic trading.

IB's proprietary smart-routing technology addresses the main risk inherent to spread trading -- that one segment or "leg" of the complex order remains unfilled. The service supports spread trading between: options contracts; securities and options contracts; stocks and ...

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