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XTX Direct

XTX Direct is a trading venue operated by algorithmic trading firm XTX Markets, offering differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide.

Last updated September 29, 2026

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Overview

XTX Direct is a trading venue associated with XTX Markets, a leading algorithmic trading firm. XTX Markets uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 53,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. XTX Direct represents the firm's direct liquidity offering to clients, complementing its exchange and alternative venue trading activity. XTX Markets does not deal with individual investors and does not accept deposits or provide retail trading services. The firm has warned about fraudulent retail and cryptocurrency scams that purport to be affiliated with XTX Markets, stating that the only website it operates is www.xtxmarkets.com and that it has no smartphone app. Any other website or app purporting to be XTX Markets is fraudulent. XTX Markets has an unrivalled level of computational resources in the trading industry, with a growing research cluster. Teams across the firm include world-class researchers, developers and technologists with backgrounds in pure math, programming, physics, computer science and machine learning. The firm is also constructing a large-scale data centre in Finland to future-proof its significant computational capabilities. It reports over 1 exabyte of usable storage, over 25,000 GPUs in its research cluster, $250bn daily traded volume, trading across 35 countries, and 300 employees. Since 2020, XTX Markets has committed more than £400m to charities and good causes, establishing the firm as one of the UK's largest donors. Its giving spans a range of fields including education, science and global development, with a principal focus on mathematics.

History

XTX Direct is a trading venue associated with XTX Markets, a leading algorithmic trading firm. XTX Markets uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 53,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and to offer differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide. XTX Direct represents the firm's direct liquidity offering to clients, complementing its exchange and alternative venue trading activity. XTX Markets does not deal with individual investors and does not accept deposits or provide retail trading services. The firm has warned about fraudulent retail and cryptocurrency scams that purport to be affiliated with XTX Markets, stating that the only website it operates is www.xtxmarkets.com and that it has no smartphone app. Any other website or app purporting to be XTX Markets is fraudulent. XTX Markets has an unrivalled level of computational resources in the trading industry, with a growing research cluster. Teams across the firm include world-class researchers, developers and technologists with backgrounds in pure math, programming, physics, computer science and machine learning. The firm is also constructing a large-scale data centre in Finland to future-proof its significant computational capabilities. It reports over 1 exabyte of usable storage, over 25,000 GPUs in its research cluster, $250bn daily traded volume, trading across 35 countries, and 300 employees. Since 2020, XTX Markets has committed more than £400m to charities and good causes, establishing the firm as one of the UK's largest donors. Its giving spans a range of fields including education, science and global development, with a principal focus on mathematics.

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A direct liquidity venue operated by XTX Markets, complementing its exchange and alternative venue trading activity.

  • XTX Direct

    A trading venue operated by XTX Markets, offering differentiated liquidity directly to clients worldwide.

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