Trading Shanghai versus London in the copper market? Sucden Financial wants to help. The London-based broker has added a spread trading functionality to its Star trading platform for futures and options, which was developed in-house. The company said its dynamic spreader tool will make arbitrage in commodity futures markets easier to execute by allowing users to create and trade synthetic spreads within a single exchange or across exchanges. For example, traders can trade the premium between raw and refined sugar on Intercontinental Exchange by simultaneously buying sugar No. 11 futures and selling white sugar futures. To mitigate legging risk, the spreader releases orders in clip sizes that can be set by the trader.
