QUOTRON FAQs

Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 71% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with retail brokers. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Please consult the footer section of our home page to read the full list of disclaimers, annotations and risk warnings.

QUOTRON offers key benefits that cater specifically to investors looking to leverage results commensurate with professional quant trading firms. Our model ensures that HNW individuals, IFAs and asset managers are directly connected to the performance of our advanced quant trading strategies. First and foremost, our platform is designed to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns through systematic trading approaches grounded in quantitative analysis. By joining QUOTRON, you are aligning with a professional team dedicated to maximising investment efficiency. through cutting-edge technology and robust data analytics. Our trading signals are generated via data and probability, not instinct and intuition. Secondly, HNW individuals may benefit from tax free returns when opening a spread betting account.

The QUOTRON investment platform is designed for HNW individuals, IFAs and asset management firms. You will need to set up a retail or corporate trading account with Pepperstone. Then accept the terms of QUOTRON, upon which your account is traded using the trading signals of a professional quant trading firm. Trading signals are entry and exit signals. These signals will be transmitted from a professional CFD trading account and used in your account to make your trades. You are in effect automatically copying the trades of a professional quant firm with methodology and results commensurate with the likes of GSA, Quadrature, XTX Markets and Renaissance Technologies. As a client you are always in control of your trading account and funds. You can withdraw or add funds at anytime and you can always disengage from the QUOTRON trading signals at anytime. It might be useful to think of QUOTRON like a professional eToro. Instead of copying the trades of amateurs who trade on instinct and intuition, you are copying the trades of professionals who trade on data and probability. You can read the terms of engagement for QUOTRON here, including a breakdown of fees and charges.

Under the terms of our license we currently accept retail and corporate applications from the UK, UAE and Switzerland. If you are a resident of any other nation state you may be eligible for entry via a UK incorporated business. Please contact us for more information.

Yes, we will meet and/or speak with you first to ascertain your needs and ensure you understand the benefits of QUOTRON. IFAs and asset management firms will need to open corporate CFD accounts with Pepperstone, which will then be traded using our professional quant trading signals.

Enquire using the form on our site, or email us at apply@quotroninvestments.com. Get introduced to Pepperstone and set up personal or corporate trading accounts. Accept the terms and conditions presented to you. Let our professional quant trading signals trade your account.

In order to join QUOTRON all applicants need to be vetted by London & Eastern to ensure compatibility. Assuming you are aware of the risks involved and you fit the minimum requirements to open a QUOTRON account then London & Eastern will be in touch to approve or deny your application.

Yes, should you be interested in applying you can request a call with Pepperstone, London & Eastern or Absolute QUANTS. We would recommend that you indicate your initial interest via our site enquiry form or email us at apply@quotroninvestments.com. Will at Pepperstone, Peter at London & Eastern and Anthony at Absolute QUANTS will be happy to speak with you.

All three companies involved in QUOTRON are based in the UK and are registered in the UK. Pepperstone and London & Eastern are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. QUOTRON is 'made in Great Britain'.

QUOTRON operates in a regulated environment. As such two of the three partner companies in QUOTRON are authorised and regulated by the FCA. Pepperstone, the brokers and London & Eastern LLP, the investment managers. Our trading signal providers Absolute QUANTS are not authorised or regulated by the FCA as they are a proprietary quant trading firm. They do not require authorisation as they are providing strategies and real time trading signals to the QUOTRON investment platform. Please view our footer to read more about authorisations and regulatory statements.

Absolute QUANTS has professional, corporate trading accounts with Pepperstone and IG Index where it trades CFDs or Contracts for Differences. As it enters and exits trades, its Pepperstone trading signals are copied in real time into your Pepperstone trading account. As CFDs operate in the same way as spread bets, the resultant signals are able to drive trades for personal spread bet accounts, personal CFD accounts and corporate CFD accounts.

QUOTRON is a Multi-Account Management (MAM) investment platform. Every client of QUOTRON has their own trading account and has total control over their own funds. What binds them together are the trading signals that are copied into client accounts in real time. QUOTRON operates in a regulated environment and two of the three partner companies are authorised and regulated by the FCA. Absolute QUANTS, as a proprietary quant trading firm does not require to be authorised or regulated in order to sell its strategies and trading signals to the QUOTRON investment platform.

Only if you choose to open a personal spread betting account with Pepperstone. If you choose a spread betting account the resultant profits will be tax free for account holders in the UK. Spread bets are essentially the same as placing contracts for difference (CFD) trades with Pepperstone. However, gains from CFD trades are currently taxable. Please check with an independent tax advisor as tax laws are subject to change.

A quant trading firm is a professional trading company that uses vast quantities of granular data to analyse long periods of market activity in order to uncover and exploit an 'edge'. Quant trading firms do not take subjective stimulants into account when they trade. Their decision process is based purely on data and probability, as opposed to the retail trader who invariably acts on intuition and instinct. There are some famous quant trading firms like Renaissance Technologies who have been very influential in the advent of quantitative trading and the application of machine learning to exploit an 'edge'. Absolute QUANTS, our trade signallers, currently use over 500 trading days of per second granular price data to back-test and hone their algorithmic approach to risk mitigation in trading.

Your trading account will be hosted by Pepperstone. They are authorised and regulated by the FCA. Please refer to their terms and conditions with respect to your trading account funds.

Pepperstone, as an execution only brokerage, generate revenue from trading activity. They charge for spread bets or trades via spreads. London & Eastern, as investment managers will charge a management fee plus a share of any upside generated in your trading account. Absolute QUANTS as trade signallers and strategists will charge London & Eastern a percentage of their fees. You will see a fee structure that is simple to understand. Depending on your circumstances and application approvals you may need to take into account that 30% of any upside generated in your account will be paid out in fees. Any upside generated in your personal spread betting account could be tax free. The majority of fees only come into effect if the equity value of your trading account rises. You can read the terms of engagement for the QUOTRON investment platform here, including a breakdown of fees and charges.

Perhaps yes, perhaps not. Our trading signals are based on vast quantities of data and feed our probability calculations. You may initially see a run of profitable days or you may see a run of loss days. Either way, the algorithmic trading signals that place your trades are fine tuned to generate returns over mid-to-long term periods. A fair evaluation of returns would be to look at your equity value every quarter to ascertain whether the QUOTRON investment platform is right for you. There are of course no guarantees that past performance will be replicated in future performance.

Your account will trade the US30 or 'Dow Jones Industrial Average'. This may change automatically at the discretion of our signal providers as and when their algorithms detect opportunities in other financial markets.

Yes. You can apply for a corporate CFD account with Pepperstone. Spread betting accounts are not available to corporate customers due to their tax free status. Simply request a corporate trading account when you are introduced to Pepperstone. Our trading signals will be copied into your account in real time for execution into the markets.

Absolute QUANTS use machines to algorithmically place their trades. The resultant entry and exit signals are then copied into your trading account. All you will see are the buy and sell signals. Behind the scenes of each entry and exit signal there are thousands of algorithms at work. Determining when, according to probability, to enter and exit a trade. Currently Absolute QUANTS never hold overnight positions and average 8 trades per trading day. As their algorithms evolve, any modifications will be automatically replicated in the signals provided to your trading account.

Absolute QUANTS, our trade signaller, use set ups that are perfectly market neutral. It makes no difference if the markets go up or down as long as there is momentum. The Absolute QUANTS algorithms get to work in both bull and bear market cycles.

There are three partner companies in QUOTRON. Pepperstone are the brokers. They host trading accounts for QUOTRON members and place the resultant trades into the financial markets. Absolute QUANTS are the strategists and trade signallers. They allow their trading signals to be transmitted and copied into client accounts. London & Eastern are the investment managers. They assess applications to join QUOTRON and manage the fiduciary duties of the investment platform. London & Eastern also provide the interface between the Absolute QUANTS trading signals and their immediate transmission and activation into client accounts.

Simply log into your Pepperstone trading account and view your equity balance, trading history and any open trades. Even though you are copying the trades of Absolute Quants, your account will replicate all activity as if you were instructing the account yourself.

Yes, simply request a withdrawal from Pepperstone at your convenience.