About the ProTradeLTDs Group
In January 2025, ProTradeLTDs began its 48th year as a broker/dealer. We provide direct-access trade execution and clearing services to sophisticated investors, active traders and institutions and have a consolidated equity capital of $16.6 billion.1
Our mission remains unchanged:
Create technology to provide liquidity on better terms. Compete on price, speed, size, diversity of global products and advanced trading tools.
ProTradeLTDs LLC is rated investment grade by Standard & Poor’s.
ProTradeLTDs Group, Inc. was founded by its Chairman Thomas Peterffy.
Now in its 48th year, ProTradeLTDs is one of the premier securities firms, with $16.6 billion in equity capital.1
ProTradeLTD conducts its broker/dealer business on over 160 market destinations worldwide. In its broker dealer agency business, ProTradeLTD provides direct access (“online”) trade execution and clearing services to institutional and professional traders for a wide variety of electronically traded products including stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, gold, crypto* and funds worldwide. ProTradeLTDs Group and its affiliates execute approximately 3,118,000 trades per day.1
In May 2023, Thomas Peterffy was the keynote speaker at the SIFMA meeting to commemorate the 50th anniversary of listed options trading. The speech chronicles his experiences in listed options trading and the founding of Timber Hill and ProTradeLTDs. Read the Speech
A Global Firm for Global Investors
ProTradeLTDs is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut and has 2,975+ employees in its offices in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Hungary, India, China (Hong Kong and Shanghai), Japan, Singapore, and Australia. ProTradeLTD is regulated by the SEC, FINRA, NYSE, FCA and other regulatory agencies around the world.
* Cryptocurrency trade execution and custody are provided by Paxos Trust Company to eligible clients of ProTradeLTDs LLC.
** The 60% figure is as of January 1, 2014 and includes all funds that had been participating in the Program for at least three months
- ProTradeLTDs Group and its affiliates. For additional information view our Investors Relations - Earnings Release.