Clearing Partners

Blue Ridge Futures has established multiple clearing relationships in order to provide the best trading solutions for each client. With our variety of global brokerage partners, we are able to offer our clients access to multiple exchanges along with robust, reliable, and customized technology solutions.

Open E Cry

Open E Cry, LLC (OEC), founded in 2002 and located in Powell, Ohio, is a online brokerage company focusing on our core product the OEC Trader for futures, forex and equities.

OEC supports institutional clients, introducing brokers and API developers utilizing OEC proprietary technology. OEC was acquired by optionsXpress Holdings, Inc on July 1, 2008 and is subsidiary of optionsXpress.

Open E Cry, LLC is registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and as a member of the National Futures Association (NFA). Open E Cry, LLC d/b/a OEC, is a subsidiary of optionsXpress Holdings, Inc.

Clear Chicago Group

Clear Chicago Group is a registered United States Futures Commission Merchant ("FCM") with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") and is also a member of the National Futures Association ("NFA").

Clear Chicago group is also a member of the Intercontinental Exchange ("ICE")as a participant and is pending Eurex ("Eurex") and EUREXUS ("EurexUS")as an NCM.

Due to the strict daily financial reporting requirements, substantial net capital requirements to hold customer funds on deposit, and the vigorous audits performed by the NFA, your funds on deposit with a United States FCM are well protected.

Clear Chicago group provides service from our world class data centers located in Chicago and Houston. The Chicago facility houses the main futures operation and the Houston facility is focused on energy trading. Each data center can function as a disaster recovery site for either operation. The data centers are engineered with technology, physical infrastructure, and security unmatched in the industry. Clear Chicago Group data centers are backed by strict maintenance schedules and monitoring to keep operations running without customer interruption. They have direct access to every major Futures Exchange and interconnect capabilities to over 200 networks. This translates to the most reliable and fastest execution of orders and delivery of market data anywhere in the world. Customers can connect via the Internet, leased lines, private networks, or be hosted directly in one of our data centers

PENSON/GHCO

Penson GHCO is a registered futures commission merchant (FCM) that offers access and clearing services to clients trading in domestic markets and global exchanges.

Penson GHCO opened for business on January 2, 1985 under the name Goldenberg, Hehmeyer & Co. (GHCO) as a traditional futures and options clearing member at the Chicago Board of Trade. In 2007, Penson Worldwide, Inc. purchased the customer and clearing business of Goldenberg, Hehmeyer & Co. to form a new company, Penson GHCO