An execution stack built by people who trade for a living
Drovix engineers the venue, the routing layer and the risk controls in-house. Every component is built around one question: would we route our own flow through this?
Infrastructure targets
Targets — not guarantees.
Targets — not guarantees.
Our engineering principles
Four design choices that shape how the Drovix venue behaves under real institutional flow.
Proprietary pricing engine
C++ aggregation and pricing engine curates quotes from tier-1 and non-bank LPs. Stale, off-market or toxic prints are filtered before they ever reach the order book.
Smart Order Router
Aeron-fed smart order routing is designed to keep internal execution under 1ms while routing each child order against live depth, LP behaviour and historical fill quality.
Co-located execution
Matching and routing engines run inside Equinix NY3, LD4, SG1 and TY3 — the same financial data-centre ecosystem our LPs and prime brokers cross-connect from.
Pre-trade risk + post-trade TCA
Margin, exposure and credit checks run pre-trade in the order path. TCA, mark-outs and reject analytics are built into the venue, not bolted on.
Connectivity
Standard institutional connectivity — no proprietary lock-in. Connect with the stack your desk already runs.
FIX 4.4
Industry-standard order and market data sessions for institutional OMS / EMS connectivity.
REST API
HTTPS endpoints for account, position, reporting and order workflows.
WebSocket
Streaming market data and order events for low-overhead client integrations.
MT5 manager bridge
Manager-level bridge for broker clients running MetaTrader 5 on top of Drovix liquidity.
Execution intelligence — TCA & best execution
Routing decisions are not a black box to our counterparties. Every fill is measured, benchmarked and reported, so your best-execution committee never has to take our word for it.
Transaction Cost Analysis
Fill-level TCA with slippage attribution, mark-outs and benchmark comparison, delivered in machine-readable form for your own analytics stack.
Best execution, evidenced
Documented routing logic and execution data demonstrate that flow is internalised or routed to third-party liquidity to achieve best execution under prevailing conditions.
Smart Order Routing
Each child order is routed against live depth, LP behaviour and historical fill quality — internalised for zero market impact where that delivers the better outcome.
Reporting and operational figures describe the Drovix execution framework and are targets, not guarantees of pricing, slippage or trading outcomes.
Operational reliability
How the venue is run day to day. No marketing promises — just the operating posture.
Active-active failover
Matching, routing and market data services run across redundant nodes so a single component failure does not stop order flow.
Monitored 24/7
Latency, fill quality, LP health and infrastructure metrics are tracked around the clock by the venue operations team.
Change management
Releases follow staged rollouts with rollback paths. Production changes are logged, reviewed and reversible.
Technical questions we get from desks
Where is the matching engine hosted?
Drovix runs co-located inside Equinix NY3, LD4, SG1 and TY3, with regional routing and disaster-recovery paths across those data centres.
How is latency measured?
The <1ms figure refers to internal execution inside the Drovix C++/Aeron stack under normal conditions. Client round-trip latency still depends on network path, OMS, bridge and instrument.
Do you offer FIX drop-copy?
Yes. Drop-copy sessions are available alongside the standard FIX 4.4 order and market data sessions on request.
Is there a sandbox?
Yes — UAT environments are provisioned for approved institutional applicants during onboarding.
Performance figures are infrastructure targets and reference values. Execution outcomes depend on strategy, size, asset class and market conditions. Drovix does not guarantee fill prices, slippage levels or trading results.
Four venues. One liquidity fabric.
Drovix matching and routing run co-located in Equinix NY3, LD4, SG1 and TY3 with redundant cross-connects. Order flow moves across the grid on dedicated infrastructure — internal matching and routing target <1ms, around the clock, around the world.
Americas FX & equities flow
EMEA institutional hub
APAC liquidity gateway
JPY & Asia-Pacific session