The ECHO Platform Overview
Unified API Connectivity for Custom Trading Applications
Overview
The ECHO Platform: Your Gateway to a Unified Trading Universe
ECHO Platform is a proprietary API middleware layer that standardizes connectivity to 25+ financial services, trading venues, and market data providers. Each integration includes production-ready Swagger documentation and unified authentication protocols, eliminating the need to build individual API connections from scratch.
How It Works?
API Connectivity
Our clients leverage pre-built API infrastructure to fast-track integrations with brokers, exchanges, and data providers using consistent formatting and authentication protocols across over 25+ financial services
Production-Ready execution support
Quickly integrate basic order execution, or work with our team to build custom API endpoints, enabling sophisticated trading strategies from market-making to automated spread systems
Enhanced Data Access
Standardized endpoints unify data from multiple sources, providing effortless access to live price data, historical databases, and essential market information through a single API layer
API Documentation Resources
Comprehensive Swagger documentation with interactive specs and customizable solutions tailored to your specific trading application requirements
ECHO Platform API Connectivity
Our platform provides pre-built API integrations with standardized Swagger documentation, enabling rapid implementation into custom trading applications across all major instrument types:
Equities & ETFs
Execution Venues
- SchwabEquity trading, institutional pricing, settlement
- TastyTradeEquity execution with advanced order types
- ReactiveMarketsCross-venue equity execution and liquidity
Market Data
- DxFeedReal-time equity quotes, Level 2 data, historical prices
- PolygonReal-time and historical market data, comprehensive equity coverage
- FINRATrade reporting, regulatory data, market statistics
- TradingViewAdvanced charting, social sentiment, technical analysis
Options Trading
Execution & Strategy Tools
- SchwabEquity options execution, complex strategies
- TastyTradeAdvanced options trading, volatility analysis
- QuantConnectAlgorithmic options strategies, backtesting
Analytics & Data
- DOTNETIndicatorsOptions Greeks, volatility indicators, technical signals
- TradingViewOptions chain analysis, volatility surface visualization
- PolygonReal-time options data, Greeks, and volatility metrics
- DxFeedOptions market data, Level 2 order book, historical options
Futures & Commodities
Execution Platforms
- CTS/T4Professional futures execution, direct exchange connectivity
- TastyTradeFutures and futures options execution
- QuantConnectAlgorithmic futures trading
Market Data & Analytics
- CME Market Data APIsReal-time futures quotes, settlement data, volume
- USDAAgricultural commodity reports, crop data, supply forecasts
- EIAEnergy market data, petroleum reports, natural gas statistics
- DOTNETIndicatorsCommodity technical indicators, seasonal patterns
Cryptocurrency Trading
Centralized Exchanges
- KrakenSpot and derivatives trading, institutional custody
- TalosProfessional crypto trading, prime brokerage
- ExchangeSharpConnectivity to 25+ US-based crypto exchanges
DeFi & Decentralized
- 1inchDEX aggregation, optimal swap routing
- InfuraEthereum infrastructure, wallet connectivity
- BeefyDeFi yield farming, automated vault strategies
Crypto Data & Infrastructure
Market Data & Analytics
- CoinGeckoComprehensive crypto market data, pricing APIs
- DeFiLlamaDeFi protocol analytics, TVL tracking
- BraveNewCoinInstitutional-grade crypto market data
- CoinMarketCalCrypto events calendar, market-moving announcements
- Tardis.DevHistorical crypto market data, tick-level precision
Security & Infrastructure
- FireblocksInstitutional crypto custody, transaction security
Upcoming Integrations
Traditional Markets
- CBOE All Access APIOptions market data, volatility indices, derivatives analytics
- Interactive Brokers (IBKR)Multi-asset execution, global market access
Forex & FX
- FXCMForeign exchange trading, currency market data
Cryptocurrency & DeFi
- CoinbaseInstitutional crypto exchange, custody services
- UniswapLeading DEX protocol, liquidity pool analytics
- ZapperDeFi portfolio management, yield tracking
Need a Specific Integration?
We build custom API connections for any financial service or data provider. If you need connectivity to a platform not listed above, our development team can create standardized Swagger documentation and integrate it into ECHO Platform as part of your custom trading application project.
Request Custom IntegrationPrimary Use Functions
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Automated Trading, Algorithm Creation, and Trade Execution Applications
Many of our clients choose to onboard with ECHO for a fast path in creating trading algorithms, along with automating the trading execution of those systems. By utilizing our existing framework, our platform accelerates the development of these trading systems. Our robust framework supports the full trade lifecycle from execution and order management, to risk assessment and reporting.
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Market Data Creation, Management, and Custom Analytics
Other clients onboard with ECHO given our framework’s ability to support the utilization of both historical and real-time data for advanced quantitative modeling and application development. We provide the necessary hosting, enabling the creation of historical databases that can be combined with real-time data feeds to generate sophisticated analytics. Our advanced UI expertise offers custom solutions for data visualization, including data-rich dashboards, interactive charting, and more.
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Consolidated Trading and Reporting across Multiple Brokers, Markets, and Exchanges
Possibly the most crucial reason to onboard with ECHO comes from the capabilities we provide in supporting custom connectivity across numerous brokers, products, markets, and exchanges all within a single platform. Our clients can spread or arbitrage across products or exchanges with ease, and manage risk at global perspective of their full trading in single a dashboard. This also provides simplification of trade accounting and reporting when executing across numerous brokers, currencies, and markets.
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Trading DevOps Solution: Hosting and Tech Resource Management
All ECHO clients are onboarded with a cloud-hosted solution. For certain clients, the primary challenge that ECHO solves is establishing and providing an ongoing hosting infrastructure for their network-sensitive trading systems. By onboarding with ECHO, our clients gain access to a comprehensive solution for hosting automated trading systems that demand guaranteed network uptime and uninterrupted connectivity. Our framework includes advanced resource monitoring and alerting services, ensuring both real-time trade notifications and effective management of technology disruptions.
The Differentiators
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Scalable Trading
Scale across diverse markets, brokers, exchanges, other applications and more all within a single platform.
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Superior Risk Management
Ensure comprehensive risk management with tailored global market exposure insights, while effectively handling often overlooked technology and trading operational risks.
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Simplified Trade Accounting
ECHO simplifies trade accounting and reporting by unifying data across brokers, vendors, integrated systems, and other trade reporting sources.
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Optimized Hedging
Unlock market-specific solutions such as smart order routing, margin optimization, and custom autospreading across a diverse universe of derivatives, expirations, exchanges, and counterparties.
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Cloud-Powered Hub
Access trading data from virtually anywhere, co-locate with exchanges and trade partners, and access critical alerting via text, email, and numerous other messaging platforms.
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Data Synergy
A unified platform connecting diverse data streams, from government data to real-time aggregated quotes, to empower custom quantitative modeling dashboards, facilitate the generation of advanced AI trading systems, and transform data into a strategic advantage.
Advance Your Trading Operation
Experience the power of ECHO, a premium unified platform designed for efficient and innovative trading operations. Built for the most sophisticated trading needs, ECHO provides unparalleled market connectivity. Simplify trading processes, leverage advanced analytics, and secure a genuine strategic advantage.
Get Started with ECHO
Are you ready to elevate your trading operations? Onboard with ECHO today.