Welcome to the Lime Developer Docs
Here you will find API documentation for the various Lime products and platforms. Please review the choices below to help you select the best option.
Description
Asset Classes
Speed & Expense
Latency Profile
Connectivity
Coding languages
Account Minimums
Funding options
Margin Types
Order Routing and Venues
Market Data
Commissions
Technology Fees
Clearing Firm
Lime Trader:
Description
The Lime Trader suite of products includes a REST API, Web and Mobile platforms.
Asset Classes
Equities & Options
Speed and Expense
$
Fast
Latency Profile
Below 250 milliseconds.
Less latency sensitive, varies per your location.
Connectivity
Internet
Coding languages
Account Minimums
$1,000 Cash account
$2,000 Margin account
$25,000 Pattern Day Trader
Funding options
ACH or Wire
Margin Types
Cash Reg-T Margin (4x cash buying power)
Pattern Day Trader (4x cash buying power intraday)
Order Routing and Venues
Limit and Market orders.
Smart Routing through Wholesalers, Exchanges
Market Data
Market data available for NMS equities, Options and OTC stocks
Commissions
Equity $0 Commission
Equity $.50/contract options
Technology Fees
No Technology Fees
Clearing Firm
Vision Financial
Lime Direct:
Description
For traders looking to code in a native programming language or directly to FIX protocol and execute directed (DMA) or Lime Smart Order Router (LSR) orders
Asset Classes
Equities & Options*
Speed and Expense
$$
Faster
Latency Profile
Single digit microseconds.
More latency sensitive, varies per your location.
Co-location and cross connects available at 3 major Exchange Data centers.
Connectivity
VPN or Co-location
Coding languages
Direct to FIX 4.2 protocol in various coding languages
Account Minimums
$30,000 Margin account
$500,000 Portfolio Margin
Funding options
Wire
Margin Types
Reg-T Margin (4x Cash Buying Power)
Portfolio Margin (Risk based margin for options, 6.67x Cash Buying Power for equities)
Order Routing and Venues
Direct Market access to 13 Lit Exchanges & Major Dark Venues
Standard and Customizable Lime Smart Order Router
Lime Benchmark Algos
Market Data
Lime Citrius Multicast Market data (C++ API available with co-location solution only)
Third Party Market Data
Commissions
Tiered Commission pricing
Technology Fees
VPN $1,000/mo
Co-location starting at $3,000/mo as needed
VPS (virtual private server) $1,500/mo as needed
Additional Market data fees for Lime Citrius if consuming
Clearing Firm
Wedbush/ABN or QSR/DVP/RVP
Lime Direct:
Description
For the most latency sensitive traders, can enter DMA orders to venues that support Binary Protocol.
Asset Classes
Equities only
Speed and Expense
$$$
Fastest
Latency Profile
Low single digit microseconds.
Most Latency sensitive.
Co-location and cross connects available at 3 major Exchange Data centers.
Connectivity
Co-location only
Coding languages
Account Minimums
$250,000 Margin account
$500,000 Portfolio Margin
Funding options
Wire
Margin Types
Reg-T Margin (4x Cash Buying Power)
Portfolio Margin (Risk based margin for options, 6.67x Cash Buying Power for equities)
Order Routing and Venues
Binary protocols for ultra-low latency available for the following Exchanges: NYSE, NYSE Arca, Nasdaq (Nasdaq, BX, PSX), CBOE (BATS, BATY, EDGX, EDGA)
Market Data
Lime Citrius Multicast Market data (C++ API available with co-location solution only)
Third Party Market Data
Commissions
Tiered Commission pricing
Technology Fees
Co-location starting at $6,000/mo
Additional fees for Raw market data as needed
Clearing Firm
Wedbush/ABN or QSR/DVP/RVP