Who we are
Built for the crises others didn't survive.
Roaches is a global electronic brokerage. We were built lean, built fast, and built to outlast whatever the market throws next.
We don't have legacy systems to protect.
We don't have shareholders demanding bailouts.
We have one job: execute, survive, outperform.
The origin
Roaches was founded in 2024 by a team of electronic trading veterans who watched too many firms collapse under the weight of their own complexity. The lesson was simple: the firms that survived were the ones that stayed lean, stayed electronic, and never confused size with strength.
We built Roaches to be the brokerage we always wanted to work with. No legacy overhead. No voice desks. No excuses. Just clean, fast, transparent execution across every major asset class.
Where we came from
Before Roaches, the founding team spent years inside a small, quietly exceptional electronic brokerage — the kind of firm that never sought headlines, never chased AUM, and never compromised its execution infrastructure to win a mandate. It ran lean. It ran fast. It ran profitably through every cycle that broke its larger competitors.
That firm proved something important: that institutional-grade electronic brokerage does not require institutional-grade overhead. It requires discipline, architecture, and the willingness to say no to complexity. We took that lesson and built something larger around it.
The firms that shaped us were not the ones you read about in the post-mortems. They were the ones still running when the post-mortems were written.
What we stand for
Electronic-first
Every execution, every workflow, every client interaction is designed for machines first and humans second. Speed is not a feature — it is the architecture.
Lean by design
We do not carry cost we do not need. No legacy infrastructure. No redundant headcount. No complexity that does not serve the client.
Crisis-proof
We were built to operate in conditions that break other firms. Our systems, our balance sheet, and our culture are all designed around the assumption that markets will eventually do something catastrophic.
Transparent
We publish our execution quality. We report our TCA. We do not hide behind complexity. If we cannot explain it, we do not do it.
The people
Our team came from electronic trading desks, quantitative research, exchange technology and risk management. Several of us worked together at the same boutique for the better part of a decade before building Roaches. We know how to work together under pressure because we already have.
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