Lending And Borrowing Options

Maximize your trading with our secure and efficient lending options.

Focused on providing the right trading solution for our clients.

At Tradingalpha we are focused on supporting our clients with their brokerage needs. Our technology and customer-focused model offers clients a gateway to Tradingalpha’s wide array of platforms which allow for direct access to over 17 providers.

Unique Inventory Access

Our clients have access to easy-to-borrow AND hard-to-borrow symbols across 17+ providers.

Suite of Trading Platforms

We support a number of different trading platforms to allow our clients to trade in their preferred environments.

Cutting-Edge Technology

Our team has developed a proprietary financial research tool, the THINKalpha Platform, which is designed to be more intuitive, customizable, and built to help you save time and resources while you build your trading strategy.

Unmatched Customer Service

Our dedicated securities lending expert advocates on behalf of our clients to obtain pricing on locates and overnight rates.

We work hard to anticipate customer needs and add real time liquidity as it becomes available.

Why use Tradingalpha’s Locates And Borrows (LAB) platform?

THINKalpha's LAB capability integrates multiple providers into a single platform where traders can search, accept and trade instantly.
The LAB platform allows for both preborrows and locates including auto accepting, multiple accounts, and tier size features.

TRANSPARENCY

Pre-trade access gives investors price transparency.

Ability to determine expected pre-borrow need per regulatory requirements.

Allows investor to request locates based on price or time to optimize strategy.

Clients may leverage our list of multiple inventory providers.

Full transparency on trades and billing via our direct partnership with our clearing firm.

LOW LATENCY

Locate executions will automatically update front-end platforms, allowing orders to be entered with minimal latency.

Access to multiple OMS platforms that support the ability to effortlessly access locates on easy and hard to borrow securities quickly and efficiently.

Automated locate response is typically within seconds with ability to preview, accept or reject prior to trading.

Proxy to our locates API available for automated strategies.

INDUSTRY INITIATIVES

Consistently upgrading our platform to meet new regulatory requirements to eliminate trading disruptions.

T+1 impact.
Reg SHO updates.
Modern technology and infrastructure.

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