Finding the Fastest Path from Idea Generation to Trade Execution

Tradeweb’s Python API represents a significant advance in enabling seamless integration between trading strategies and execution. The technology allows clients to establish a direct connection between their Python-coded trading models and Tradeweb, for both a solicited workflow, and Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) platform.

By leveraging this plug-and-play solution, clients can affect sophisticated new strategies with automated execution, and stage orders to either their own or shared docket on Tradeweb, streamlining the PM-to-execution desk workflow. This can now all be achieved in an efficient and scalable manner.

Solutions to match the trader’s tool of choice

Alongside the Tradeweb Excel Integrator plugin and standard FIX API, the suite of integration options has expanded to include the new Python API to deliver seamless integration direct to the user’s model/system.

This innovation simplifies the execution process, enabling traders to respond faster to market movements and align their trading speed with the pace of their strategies. The hosted deployment also means users are able to benefit from Tradeweb’s latest innovations as soon as they are released. The adoption of the API has been swift, with strong momentum and an active pipeline going into 2025.

Key workflows available:

Order staging

• Stage orders to your Tradeweb Docket for manual execution
  
  
• Shared Docket: stage orders to a shared space for a streamlined PM-to-execution desk workflow

AiEX

• ASAP – Orders go to market immediately following the parameters determined with the order or preset in the system, providing the fastest possible path from model to automated execution.
  
  
• Timed Release – Schedule your orders for execution at a specific time, ideal for targeting key pockets of liquidity in global markets, such as U.S. afternoon hours or the morning hours in Asia
  
  
• Limit Monitoring – Rest an order with a limit vs. dealer streams to execute automatically when that limit is met -  minimising both market impact and transaction cost.
  
  
• Voice Processing – Use AiEX with the Python API to auto-affirm a voice trade - achieving the benefits of straight-through-processing (STP).

Direct Execution Without the Hurdles

The real breakthrough made possible by Tradeweb’s Python API is the ‘easy adoption’ design - a direct, real-time flow from the model itself to the trading venue, which removes the reliance on mapping, tech stack maintenance and core trading model to conduit dependency.  This innovation is part of our continued effort at Tradeweb to systematically remove latency, margin for error, and other friction points from institutional trading workflows.

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