Complete Turnkey Solution for Proprietary Trading Groups

Trading, clearing and reporting capability on over
100 market destinations worldwide

Securities Financing

Our depth of availability, transparent and competitive loan and borrow rates, automated tools and dedicated service representatives
give you the advantages you expect from Best Mastery Capital.

Depth of Availability

The combination of both internal supply and external relationships allows us to offer our clients a vast array of securities to trade:

  • Our large and diverse customer base lets us source internally approximately 60 to 70% of our short borrow needs.
  • BMC has securities lending/borrowing relationships with more than 60 counterparties, comprised of Agent Lenders, banks and broker dealers in the U.S.
  • Our team provides consistent high levels of protection against recalls and buy-ins on hard to borrow securities, creating extended time horizons for even the most difficult short selling strategies.

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Transparent, Competitive Loan and Borrow Rates

  • We disclose our short stock availability (aka "locates") to ALL customers on a first come, first serve basis for every supported security on our trading platform, Trader Workstation (TWS).
  • We disclose indicative rebate rate and fee rate information, which you can use as an indication of borrow costs.
  • Each day, we provide our clients with detailed reports, outlining exactly what the financing costs are for each SLB-related transaction.

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Transparent, Competitive Loan and Borrow Rates

  • We disclose our short stock availability (aka "locates") to ALL customers on a first come, first serve basis for every supported security on our trading platform, Trader Workstation (TWS).
  • We disclose indicative rebate rate and fee rate information, which you can use as an indication of borrow costs.
  • Each day, we provide our clients with detailed reports, outlining exactly what the financing costs are for each SLB-related transaction.

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Transparent, Competitive Loan and Borrow Rates

  • We disclose our short stock availability (aka "locates") to ALL customers on a first come, first serve basis for every supported security on our trading platform, Trader Workstation (TWS).
  • We disclose indicative rebate rate and fee rate information, which you can use as an indication of borrow costs.
  • Each day, we provide our clients with detailed reports, outlining exactly what the financing costs are for each SLB-related transaction.

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Transparent, Competitive Loan and Borrow Rates

  • We disclose our short stock availability (aka "locates") to ALL customers on a first come, first serve basis for every supported security on our trading platform, Trader Workstation (TWS).
  • We disclose indicative rebate rate and fee rate information, which you can use as an indication of borrow costs.
  • Each day, we provide our clients with detailed reports, outlining exactly what the financing costs are for each SLB-related transaction.

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Lower Your Costs to Maximize Your Return

Our transparent, low commissions and financing rates, and best price executions minimize your costs to help you maximize your returns.
Generate Higher Returns

Lower commissions, no ticket charges; no minimums; and no technology, software, platform, or reporting fees. Low financing rates, and higher loan values on portfolio margin accounts over $100K.

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Best Price Execution

Most brokers trade against your orders or sell them to others to execute who will trade against them. The resulting poor execution probably costs you more than the commission you pay. BMC SmartRoutingSM continuously searches and reroutes to the best available prices for stocks, options and combinations.

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Execution Price Improvement Comparison*
  US Stocks
(per 100 shares)
US Options
(per contract)
European Stocks
(per 100 shares)
Best Mastery Capital $0.38 $0.84 €0.08
Industry $0.32 $0.60 - €0.84
BMC Advantage $0.06 $0.24 €0.93

Net Dollar Price Improvement vs. National Best Bid/Offer 1

**Based on independent measurements, the Transaction Auditing Group, Inc., (TAG), a third-party provider of transaction analysis, has determined that Best Mastery Capital' US stock and options price executions were significantly better than the industry's during the second half of 2016. 2

  1. Net $ Improvement per Share Definition:
    ((# of Price Improved Shares * Price Improvement Amount) - (# of Price Disimproved Shares * Price Disimprovement Amount)) / Total Number of Executed Shares
  2. The Transaction Auditing Group (TAG). Industry as a whole for the referenced periods according to TAG. The TAG analysis for US stocks included all market orders of 100 shares or more up to 10,000 shares. The analysis for US options included all market order sizes in US options and includes exchange rebates received by clients under BMC's cost-plus pricing structure. The TAG analysis of orders routed to exchanges in Europe included all orders routed for execution during regular trading hours including all market and marketable limit orders and orders near the market (orders having a limit price within one-tenth of a Euro from the quote price at time of order receipt) on stocks listed on the included exchanges, weighted by the volume executed on each exchange. The exchanges for European stocks are XETRA, EURONEXT, CHI-X, WIENER BORSE, TURQUOISE, LONDON and NASDAQ OMX.

Your Gateway to the World's Markets

Direct market access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds,
ETFs and CFDs from a single BMC Universal Account™.

100
Markets

24
Countries

22
Currencies

Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week to stay
connected to all global markets.

Convert currencies at market determined rates as low as 1/10 of a basis point, or create a position collateralized by a non-native currency.

Fund your account in multiple currencies. Trade assets denominated in multiple currencies from a single account.

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Innovative Technology

We've been building online trading
technology that provides competitive pricing, speed,
size, diversity of global products, advanced trading tools to our clients for 40 years.
Trading Platforms

Our online trading platforms have been designed with the professional trader in mind:

  • Optimize your online trading speed and efficiency with our market maker-designed Trader Workstation (TWS).
  • Trade your BMC account on-the-go from just about any mobile device with BMC TWS.
  • Use our HTML-based WebTrader, a clean and simple interface that works from behind a firewall.
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Advanced Trading Tools

Our suite of Option Labs and advanced online trading tools offer support to help you discover and implement optimal trading strategies. For example, our Probability Lab offers a practical way to think about options without the complicated mathematics, and the Option Strategy Lab lets you create simple and complex multi-leg option orders based on your own price and volatility forecast.

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Order Types and Algos

Trader Workstation (TWS) supports over 60 order types, from the most basic limit order to advanced trading to the most complex algorithmic trading, to help you execute a wide variety of trading strategies.

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Sophisticated Risk Management

Real-time market-risk management and real-time monitoring provide a comprehensive measure of risk exposure across multiple asset classes around the globe and real-time data that gives you the edge you need to react quickly to the markets.

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Comprehensive Reporting

Our statements and reports include real-time trade confirmations, margin details, transaction cost analysis, sophisticated portfolio analysis, tax optimization and a variety of other supplemental reports.

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Securities Financing

From trade date to settlement date, our Securities Financing solutions provide depth of availability, transparent rates, global reach and automated lending and borrowing tools to professional traders.

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Financial Strength and Stability

Our strong capital position, conservative balance sheet and automated risk controls protect BMC and our clients from large trading losses.

Best Mastery Capital Group (IBG LLC) equity capital exceeds $6 billion1. 16.6% of IBG LLC is owned by the publicly traded company, Best Mastery Capital Group, Inc. and the remaining 83.4% is owned by our employees and affiliates.

Unlike other firms, where management owns a small share, we participate substantially in the downside just as much as in the upside which makes us run our business conservatively. We hold no material positions in OTC securities or derivatives. We hold no CDOs, MBS or CDS. The gross amount of our portfolio of debt securities, with the exception of US governments debt securities, is less than 10% of our equity capital.%。

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  1. Includes Best Mastery Capital Group and its affiliates.

Comprehensive Reporting

Easy to view and customize, our statements and reports cover all aspects of your Best Mastery Capital account.
Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.

Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.

Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.

Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.

Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.

Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.

Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.

Open an Account

Our Proprietary Trading Group accounts let corporations and trading organizations authorize multiple traders to enter orders
in a single account, or set up individual accounts for traders, or strategies with separate credit limits.

We offer two types of Proprietary Trading Group account structures. Both account types provide institutions with
the flexibility of trade execution, clearing and prime broker services all within the same account.



Pool Account Structure
  • A single trading account with one or more users.
  • Best Mastery Capital offers Proprietary Trading Group accounts for corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and unincorporated legal structures.
Account Information

Multiple users can view and modify other traders' activity.

Accounts are accepted from citizens or residents of all countries except citizens or residents of those countries that are prohibited by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control. Click here for a list of available countries.

Link to Administrators for the purpose of providing administrative services such as reporting. Shop for registered Administrators at the Administrator Marketplace.

Pool Account PDF Guide

For information on SIPC coverage on your account, visit www.sipc.org or call SIPC at 1 (202) 371-8300.

Separate Trading Limit Account Structure
  • Multiple, linked accounts all in the name of a single entity. Assets in all accounts are owned by the entity account holder. Each account has its own trading limits and can have its own trading strategy.
  • Best Mastery Capital offers Proprietary Trading Group accounts for corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and unincorporated legal structures.
Account Information

Master, sub accounts and users are part of the same legal entity.

Funds are deposited in the master account and transferred between the master and sub accounts to control individual trader limits.

Initial margining is determined for each individual account, while maintenance margining is determined at a consolidated account level.

Master users can set trading limits on individual sub accounts based on order size and value.

Accounts are accepted from citizens or residents of all countries except citizens or residents of those countries that are prohibited by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control. Click here for a list of available countries.

Link to Administrators for the purpose of providing administrative services such as reporting to your sub accounts. Shop for registered Administrators at the Administrator Marketplace.

Seperate Trading Limit PDF Guide

For information on SIPC coverage on your account, visit www.sipc.org or call SIPC at 1 (202) 371-8300.