boxtrades.de, fintech

A EUREX integration made boxtrades.de Germany's first box spread trading platform.

Real-time EUREX integration with operations built to institutional standards.

Client
boxtrades GmbH
Field
Fintech, trading
Year
2023
Services
Strategy, product, development
boxtrades.de rate comparison on a laptop and a phone
Box spread implied rate against the 5-year EUR swap for the Euro Stoxx 50, desktop and mobile

Challenge

No platform in Germany was built for box spreads.

Box spreads are a sophisticated options trading strategy that can offer predictable returns with minimal risk. While widely used by institutional investors globally, no platform existed in Germany specifically designed for this strategy.

Our client wanted to bring this capability to a broader audience of sophisticated retail traders. It had to meet the strict requirements of German financial regulation and integrate with EUREX, Europe's largest derivatives exchange.

In numbers

What the platform delivers.

Box spread platform in Germany
1st
Downtime since launch
0
Price calculation latency
<50 ms
EUREX data feed
Real-time

Approach

We understood the regulation before we wrote the code.

We began with thorough regulatory research, working closely with compliance experts to understand the specific requirements for operating a trading platform in Germany. This informed every technical decision that followed.

The core technical challenge was building a system that could calculate optimal box spread opportunities in real time across hundreds of options contracts. We developed a proprietary algorithm that processes EUREX market data and identifies viable trades within milliseconds.

The platform had to meet the reliability requirements of institutional trading. We architected the system with redundancy at every level, implementing automatic failover mechanisms and real-time monitoring that has kept the platform up since launch.

Result

The platform returns prices in milliseconds and has stayed up since launch.

boxtrades.de launched as Germany's first dedicated box spread trading platform, giving sophisticated traders access to strategies previously reserved for institutional investors.

The platform processes thousands of calculations per second and returns prices in milliseconds. Since launch, the system has not gone down once, a critical requirement for any trading platform operating in live markets.

At launch it was the only platform of its kind in Germany.

“Zeenko understood both the technical complexity and the regulatory requirements from day one. They didn't just build what we asked for, they helped us think through problems we hadn't anticipated.”
Founder, boxtrades GmbH
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