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Orders are always a matter of the FCM. An Introducing Broker is purely a sales and service organization. The FCM has your money and is responsible for your trades.
If you have an Introducing Broker (you don't have to), they have simply introduced you to the FCM so the account could be opened with them. Many traders did not go through IB's to open their accounts and don't have them, but deal directly with the FCM.
Bob.
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Edit: there has been some discussion on FCM's and IB's and their roles in later posts in this thread, which changes this to some extent. I think in the case of Teton, it seems to be the case that the FCM is what decides the question. But the general case is more involved than that. I've noticed that once you think you have a simple answer to something, you may find you need to double-check it.
The best answer regarding Teton is probably in the list of currently supported FCM's and IB's from the Sierra Chart web site, quoted here:
As to Teton, through the magic of Google, I was able to find this on the Sierra Chart website. I think this is the better answer to the original question by wisp (their terminology here appears to be that "broker" means …
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I'm not sure I 100% agree with @bobwest here but since I don't know what Teton Routing is I will not disagree. I can think of many examples though where your relationship is clearly with the IB and not the clearing FCM behind them.
Teton routing in an order routing service provided by Sierra Chart to compete with Rithmic, CQG and the others to route customer orders to the exchange. Sierra claims it is faster and more reliable in routing orders, and they are currently promoting it for use on their trading platform. I believe it is intended to be available on other platforms, but I don't think anyone else currently uses it. I believe that only a few FCM's are currently using it, but it is still new.
I may have overstated the role of the FCM in some respects (the IB can provide services that add value), but if your FCM does not support the order routing service you want to use, then it won't be available to you, since the orders are going into your account with them.
An example of an IB providing significant service would be NinjaTrader Brokerage, They provide the NinjaTrader trading platform (which NT also provides with a few other brokers) and are an IB. They used to use either Phillip or Dorman as their FCM's, but now have their own NinjaTrader Clearing FCM, and migrated all the FCM accounts to them. The underlying order routing is through CQG (and I believe they still do Rithmic) at the FCM level.
I'm sure there are other IB's that provide worthwhile services to distinguish themselves from the competition, but the Teton question is a clearing/order-routing issue, which is the FCM's job.
Bob.
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Thanks for the explanation @bobwest. I learnt something today.
Clearing and order routing are two very different things. I would agree that with clearing that the ultimate responsibility is with the FCM but not so with routing. I use Trading Technologies. If I have a problem with my order routing and call my FCM they will tell me to call TT as it has nothing to do with them. There are even companies that specialize in technology solutions ( Gauva Tech & Nirvana Tech come to mind) that have no formal relationships with any IB or FCM, they literally just provide the technology solution.
As to Teton, through the magic of Google, I was able to find this on the Sierra Chart website. I think this is the better answer to the original question by @wisp (their terminology here appears to be that "broker" means Introducing Broker, "Clearing firm" means FCM):
Since this is complete list (as of right now anyway, 6/30/22), I did not go to the trouble of looking up who are the FCM's for the different IB's -- for example, what FCM does Stage 5 use, etc. In the case of Teton/Sierra Chart, I do not expect that they have the kind of relationship with IB's such as @SMCJB described with TT, so I think that the FCM is still the deciding factor for this particular service, but this list from SC is a better guide because it lists the participating FCM's and the IB's. As of today, if they are not on this list they don't have it, and if they are, then they do.
I would use this list, and would check the Sierra Chart website periodically since it may be updated.
I made an amendment to my original response to the question to refer to this post.
Bob.
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From what I understand, even if the FCM supports Teton, if the broker doesn't want to support Teton, then we can't use it. So what exactly is the role of all these entities. I am a bit confused.
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