AUTEX

  

Thompson Reuters Autex Trade Route is an electronic trading platform that gives traders an idea of where interest lies...and in what volume. So, if you’re buying a thousand shares of Apple, Autex searches for someone who wants to take the other side of the trade. No humans are involved, other than to enter their orders.

Really, it’s an electronic dating service of the finance world. Match for finance gurus.

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