Here is the honest situation. Here is the honest situation. A broker-dealer that trades a normal session is a solved problem, because the market close quietly did four jobs for you: it set the marks, opened an overnight batch window, gave reconciliation a cutoff, and handed technology a maintenance window. The difficulty starts the moment you trade continuously, because all four disappear at once and almost every process you run silently depended on at least one of them. Doing this well means defining an explicit business date and valuation cutoff to replace the close, staffing and supervising a round-the-clock desk with disciplined handoffs and clear overnight authority, applying hard pre-trade risk controls under the market access rule with a tested kill switch that works when the listing venue is dark, reconciling and settling without a batch window under a T+1 clock, and engineering resiliency for infrastructure that has no maintenance window. Where teams fall short is predictable: the overnight session left thinly supervised, the batch that races a live tape, the trade that misses a settlement cutoff, and the failover nobody tested until the outage.
This Kit removes the guesswork. It is 24-hour trading operations and risk management written as adopt-ready controls you personalize in a weekend, with the evidence a supervisor or an examiner examines.
What you get, the moment you buy
Grounded in trading operations, market risk and operational resilience practice applied to continuous trading. Editable Word and Excel files.
What one control looks like
This is the opening control, where the operating model begins. All 18 are built to this depth.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. A control you cannot evidence is a gap waiting to be found. This tells you what a supervisor or an examiner examines and where teams fall short, for every control.
- The continuous-trading specifics built in. The business date and valuation cutoff, real-time pre-trade controls under the market access rule, a scoped tested kill switch, streaming reconciliation, settlement-cycle mapping, corporate-actions timing and resiliency with no maintenance window are written into the controls, not left generic.
- Built on real practice, not one person's opinion, grounded in how continuous trading operations actually hold up and where they actually fail.
- It compounds. This work shares its shape with market risk, post-trade operations and operational resilience, so it feeds your wider trading and risk program.
Who buys this
Operations managers, risk officers and technology leads at broker-dealers and market makers preparing for or already running continuous trading, and the supervisors and post-trade owners whose processes have to hold up around the clock. Whether this is your first move into overnight trading or a maturity uplift, you save weeks and walk in with your business-date, coverage, risk, reconciliation, settlement, resiliency and supervision controls structured.
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
Does it cover the full continuous-operation arc? Yes. Business date and valuation cutoff, desk coverage and overnight authority, real-time risk and kill switches, reconciliation and settlement, technology resiliency, and supervision each have their own controls with their own evidence.
Is this tied to one venue, asset class or system? No. The controls are principle-level, the business date, pre-trade controls, streaming reconciliation, settlement mapping, resiliency and supervision, so they apply whatever markets, venues or systems you run.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
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