I am looking for the optimal organizational structure for a full
service brokerage firm in north american servicing the equity and
equity derivatives marketplace, e.g. trading on the major north
american listed and unlisted marketplaces (NYSE, ECNs, etc.). Order
routing and order management systems are inplace that are rule driven
to set the automatic processing of securities transactions. What
should it look like? How many traders and/or system administrators
should be in place to deal with ranges of electronic trading volumes
of e.g. 2,000 - 5,000 transactions per day, per week, per month? What
other positions should be in place to support the trading operations
of the front office dealing with trade processing (not clearing and
settlement activities)? What are the industry averages for exception
handling for this level of trading? What is the industry average for
percentage of orders that will be manually intercepted and handled?
What are the skills, knowledge and core competencies that resources to
support electronic order management and routing resources have? What
is the trend for the future for trading floor resources? What is the
average compensation for these positions?