Clear Street — Modernizing the brokerage ecosystem
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Professional & Proprietary Traders
Speed and edge define your business. Clear Street delivers low‑latency DMA and smart routing with an experienced high‑touch desk, plus professional clearing purpose‑built for proprietary trading workflows, including rapid exchange and product onboarding with aligned risk and margin policies.
Built for Trading at Scale
For prop traders, your advantage comes from dependable access to liquidity, efficient use of capital and systems that keep pace with your strategy. Desks need infrastructure that unifies trading, risk and financing across asset classes, onboards venues and products quickly and maintains consistent throughput during periods of stress.
~$28.4bn
daily trading activity
~2.4mn
transactions/day
~4%
U.S. equities market share
99.95%
uptime
~99.997%
STP rate
The Clear Street Difference
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Institutional-Grade Clearing
Risk/margin aligned to prop workflows with rapid exchange/product onboarding.
Intraday Capital Unlock
Robust portfolio margining tools free collateral while you’re trading, not overnight.
Rapid Execution
DMA plus Clear Street Algos to sweep lit/dark liquidity with reduced footprint; experienced high-touch desk for blocks and special situations.
Elastic Reliability
Cloud-native infrastructure built to absorb volume spikes and volatility without throttles or manual interventions.
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Institutional-Grade Clearing
Risk/margin aligned to prop workflows with rapid exchange/product onboarding.
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Intraday Capital Unlock
Robust portfolio margining tools free collateral while you’re trading, not overnight.
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Rapid Execution
DMA plus Clear Street Algos to sweep lit/dark liquidity with reduced footprint; experienced high-touch desk for blocks and special situations.
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Elastic Reliability
Cloud-native infrastructure built to absorb volume spikes and volatility without throttles or manual interventions.
Key Services for Professional & Proprietary Traders
Everything prop traders need to move faster, deploy capital efficiently and scale across venues and products – all on a unified, end-to-end platform.
Professional Clearing
Portfolio Margin & Risk Management
A6 Financing
Low-Touch Trading
Clear Street Algos
High-Touch Trading
Derivatives
Common questions
Simple answers
How do I open an account with Clear Street?
Prospective clients can get in touch with our sales and onboarding team via our Contact page. A representative will reach out to discuss your execution, financing and clearing needs.
What makes Clear Street different?
Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale.
We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.
Can you support market making programs and rapid product onboarding?
Yes. Our professional clearing is designed for market making and proprietary trading workflows, with fast exchange/product additions and aligned margin treatment.
How does Clear Street improve capital efficiency for prop desks?
Through robust, real-time portfolio margining tools, collateral is freed intraday so teams can redeploy capital without waiting for end-of-day cycles.
What execution options are best for prop strategies?
Most groups combine DMA/smart order routing and our Fox River Algos for low-impact participation, with high-touch support for blocks, special situations and event-driven flows.
