Infrastructure & Technology
Institutional-grade Infrastructure Engineered for Precision Execution
Alpha Trade’s technology infrastructure reflects the depth of expertise residing within the firm. With three qualified Chief Technology Officers contributing to the platform’s design and governance, the firm brings an exceptional level of technical rigour to the challenges that institutional execution demands — addressing complexities that the majority of brokers and liquidity intermediaries are structurally ill-equipped to resolve.
The firm’s infrastructure philosophy is grounded in a single principle: all core technology must be co-located with its primary liquidity sources. This ensures the lowest achievable latency between order origination, matching, and execution — a critical differentiator in the delivery of consistent, high-quality fills across all market conditions.
Primary Data Centre
Equinix LD4 — London
All core trading systems and matching engines are co-located with primary liquidity providers at Equinix LD4, the pre-eminent financial services data centre in Europe and home to the majority of the firm’s liquidity counterparties.
Redundancy & Failover
Equinix NY4 — New York
Full backup infrastructure is maintained at Equinix NY4, once again co-located alongside liquidity providers, ensuring continuity of service and execution capability in the event of any disruption to primary systems.
Connectivity Ecosystem
Alpha Trade operates within the OneZero ecosystem, leveraging its industry-standard connectivity framework and matching engine infrastructure to deliver reliable, scalable order routing and execution.
Global Distribution
Pricing is distributed from primary servers through Hub-to-Hub API connectivity.
24-Hour Monitoring
A dedicated 24-hour technology support team, complemented by automated monitoring across the data centre, network, and pricing infrastructure, maintains a robust and resilient trading environment.
Client connectivity is straightforward regardless of location. Clients not directly present within the Equinix ecosystem can connect seamlessly to Alpha Trade’s infrastructure via a OneZero API adaptor through their existing provider via x-connects.
Technology highlights
Equinix NY4 Redundancy
OneZero Ecosystem
Hub-to-Hub Connectivity
API Adaptor Access
24/5 Automated Monitoring
Global Virtual Data Centres
Three In-House CTOs
