I trade at a velocity most firms run with algorithms — hundreds of thousands of option contracts a month, tens of thousands of futures contracts, scalping NQ and 0DTE index options while actively hedging a long book. That kind of trading lives or dies on one thing: low-friction execution when the market is moving.
My capital sits at a major global bank — and that's exactly where I want it. The safety, the balance sheet, the custody of a top-tier institution matters when you're running real size. But the execution tools at that level were built for routing institutional orders, not for a trader working between the bid and ask all day. No live P&L. No one-click position management. Order caps that fight the way I trade.
The specialist platforms had the ladders and the speed — but they came attached to smaller brokers, and putting serious capital at a small firm is a risk of its own. I kept facing the same choice: the institution without the platform, or the platform without the institution.
So I built the missing piece. Cypress Terminal is a broker-agnostic control layer: a professional-grade execution ladder, live risk, and institutional reporting that connects to the broker — while your capital stays in custody exactly where you want it. It's running live in production today, on my own capital, in real markets.
Where does it go from here? I'm finding out. If the same wall has been in your way, I'd like to hear from you.
