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    Nasdaq Trade Surveillance for High-Frequency & Proprietary Trading

    Surveillance Built for the Fastest Markets

    Your algorithms exploit cross-market inefficiencies and venue-specific behaviors in microseconds—the same sophisticated patterns that market manipulators use to evade detection. HFT strategies require surveillance technology that matches your operational sophistication.

    Features

    How We Match Your Technical Sophistication

    Ultra-Low Latency Monitoring

    Surveillance that captures manipulation patterns across the venues and timeframes where your algorithms operate  

    Order Lifecycle Surveillance

    Track rapid sequences of placements, modifications, and cancellations to flag spoffing, layering, and quote stuffing.

    Venue Optimization Intelligence

    Understand manipulation patterns across venues to optimize your routing and execution logic  

    Market Microstructure Analysis

    Leverage the same cross-venue, cross-product analysis your algorithms use to identify sophisticated threats  

    Built by the team that monitors exchanges processing billions of trades daily, our surveillance architecture scales to match your volume while providing the technical depth your business demands.

    Impact

    The benchmark for T+1 surveillance.

    30+
    years of surveillance expertise

    190+
    clients

    25+
    awards

    3,000+
    live sites

    What is Cross-Product Manipulation?

    When One Trade Isn’t the Whole Story

    Uncovering Cross-Product Manipulation

    • In the surveillance world, we’re trained to look for patterns. But what happens when the patterns of interest span multiple products, markets or even regions? Cross-product manipulation is the art of misdirection—where the signal isn’t in the trade itself, but in the choreography between instruments.
    • Over the past decade, regulators have issued nearly $1 billion in fines tied to cross-product market abuse. These aren’t just numbers. They’re proof that manipulation has evolved, and so must our ability to detect it.
    • Effective surveillance must evolve to understand relationships, not just rules, to protect market integrity. In this white paper, we explore strategies to connect relationships, see the complete picture and make event data actionable. 
    • In the surveillance world, we’re trained to look for patterns. But what happens when the patterns of interest span multiple products, markets or even regions? Cross-product manipulation is the art of misdirection—where the signal isn’t in the trade itself, but in the choreography between instruments.
    • Over the past decade, regulators have issued nearly $1 billion in fines tied to cross-product market abuse. These aren’t just numbers. They’re proof that manipulation has evolved, and so must our ability to detect it.
    • Effective surveillance must evolve to understand relationships, not just rules, to protect market integrity. In this white paper, we explore strategies to connect relationships, see the complete picture and make event data actionable. 
    When One Trade Isn’t the Whole Story: Uncovering Cross-Product Manipulation

    Watch the video

    Navigating Cross-Product Complexity With Smarter Surveillance

    Ian Hawkins, Head of Nasdaq Trade Surveillance Product Strategy, discusses the complexity of monitoring for cross-product manipulation.

    Resources

    Insights and Resources for High Frequency & Proprietary Trading Firms

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    Whitepaper

    Monitoring the Order Flow: Where does the Responsibility Lie?

    From a trade surveillance perspective, it can be difficult to identify where a firm’s responsibility for monitoring the order flow of direct market access starts and where it ends. Understanding potential liability for your firm is essential to avoiding regulatory scrutiny.

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    Newsletter

    Regulatory Roundup November Issue: Decoding Spoofing

    Take a deep dive into spoofing, which covers a broad set of market manipulation techniques that involve entering non-genuine orders (spoof orders) to create a misleading impression of the supply and demand of that asset, why it continues to be a priority for regulators and what that means for algorithmic traders.

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    Webinar

    Maximizing Trade Surveillance Efficiency: Best Practices for Success

    Assess best practices for maximizing surveillance efficiency and why firms should regularly evaluate their program to improve surveillance processes.

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    Newsletter

    Regulatory Roundup August Issue: Expectations of PTFs

    Propriety Trading Firms can often engage in activities like market making, high frequency trading, and algorithmic trading. They are at the forefront of technology and have unique regulatory challenges.

    See in-depth surveillance coverage in action.

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    Proactively detect market abuse and better comply with regulations with time-tested and comprehensive cross-market, cross-asset trade surveillance technology for market participants.

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