User Help System
Viewing and Managing Firm Groups
Firm users will be able to view and/or modify settings for their Firm Groups. Firm Admins will only be able to modify limits and threshold settings only if they have access to all the firms in the Firm Group.
Viewing Firm Groups
- To Access and Manage Firm Group Settings:
- Select BrokerTec Risk Limits > Entity: Firm Group.
Optional: Select a specific Firm Group and Risk Group.
(optional) To view a specific firm group, filter available firm groups.
- Firm Group: Select a group from the list.
- Firm: View groups that include the selected firm.
- To view details, select a Firm Group.
To view a specific firm group, filter available firm groups.
- Firm Group: Select a group from the list.
- Firm: View groups that include the selected firm.
From the Firm Group Limits page, the following information and features are available:
- Firm Group Details / Audit Trail:
- Thresholds & Alerts: Set email alerts when a firm exceeds a selected percentage of limits.
- Restrictions: View firms with product restrictions, which prevents a firm from submitting orders for the product.
Note: To view a list of updates to BrokerTec Risk Management risk settings select the Audit function.
- Max Risk Value: Also known as potential exposure.
- Working long notional quantity + net traded notional quantity = maximum long
- Working short notional quantity + net traded notional quantity = maximum short
- Max Net Risk Value: Also known as Net Traded limit, an optional value set by the BrokerTec Admin.
- Daily Adjustment Value - Max Risk Value / Max Net Risk Value: (optional) Adjustment to max risk value limit for the current trading session; in millions USD. This value resets to zero (0) at the close of daily trading and normal risk values resume.
Note: Firm Admins may set limits on the Max Risk Value and Max Net Risk Value and the most restrictive limits, of the BTEC Admin and Firm Admin, will be highlighted and enforced.
