Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) provides clients with a breadth of products aimed at effectively accessing liquidity in equity markets around the globe. GSET strategies focus on capturing execution alpha for clients by combining extensive liquidity reach, speed and product research. GSET’s offering includes Algorithms, Smart Order Routing, Low Latency DMA, Sponsored Access, ATS & MTF liquidity and unique access to GS Principal Liquidity.
Best in Class Platform
Goldman Sachs is amidst a multi-year investment to rebuild its global trading infrastructure in efforts to deliver superior execution quality and experiences to our clients. This includes Atlas, the firm’s new Equities trading platform designed for lower latency, increased capacity and support for new workflows and client customizations. The Atlas architecture is flexible and modular, enabling for product innovation, agile feature iteration and faster information processing to help drive performance improvements.
Redesigned Algorithms and Smart Order Routing
GSET offers a comprehensive suite of algorithms to help clients achieve their trading objectives. Our algorithms are designed to leverage both historical analysis and real-time market information, making the strategies dynamic tools to help clients navigate a variety of market conditions. GSET’s Smart Order Router (SOR) provides a data-driven approach to order routing, offering access to exchanges and a majority of non-displayed venues.
Execution Consulting and Analytics
Sophisticated trade analytics play a critical role in helping our clients achieve their trading objectives. Our team takes a metrics-driven approach to evaluating quality of execution, working closely with our clients to develop customizations to fit their investment objectives. We base our decisions on structured experiments and rigorous analysis, which allows us to create uniquely tailored solutions to help improve trading results.
Expanded Liquidity Access
GSET products aim to efficiently connect clients to superior liquidity access across the global equity markets. In each region, our algorithms may access unique off-exchange GS Principal Liquidity and potentially receive performance benefits including price or size improvement. In addition, our algorithms can take advantage of our global suite of SIGMA X liquidity pools including Sigma X2 in the US, Sigma X MTF in Europe, Sigma X Japan, Sigma X Hong Kong and Sigma X Australia.