# Lime Trading

> Lime Trading (Lime Trading Corp., operating as Lime Financial) is a New York-based broker-dealer that gives independent and institutional traders access to institutional-grade trading technology. Born in 2000 inside a quantitative hedge fund as Lime Brokerage, the firm built low-latency infrastructure for high-frequency trading and now offers direct market access, trading APIs, colocation, and proprietary web and mobile platforms for trading U.S. equities, options, and futures. It positions itself in the gap between bulge-bracket banks and retail apps, serving sophisticated traders and developers who want speed, transparency, and quality execution.

- **Founded:** 2000
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Hedge fund trading team (Lime Brokerage founders) (Founders)
- **Team size:** ~70-73 employees
- **Products:** Lime Trader Plus, Lime Trader Web & Mobile, Trading REST API & Python SDK, Lime Direct API & FIX Protocol, Market Data Source
- **Notable:** Executed over 20 billion shares cumulatively and processed over 10 billion messages, Handled peak single-day volume of roughly 200 million shares, Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative, American Financial Technology Awards (2010)

## Products & services

- **Lime Trader Plus** — Institutional-grade access tier for high-volume and professional traders, with a stated $30,000 account minimum.
- **Lime Trader Web & Mobile** — Proprietary web-based and mobile trading platforms for equities, options and futures.
- **Trading REST API & Python SDK** — Developer tools for automated and algorithmic trading, order management and market data access.
- **Lime Direct API & FIX Protocol** — Low-latency direct market access and order routing connectivity via FIX.
- **Market Data Source** — Real-time and high-speed market data feeds for U.S. equity and options markets.
- **Hosting & Colocation** — Colocation and hosting services placing client systems close to exchange matching engines for minimal latency.
- **Third-party front ends** — Access through Sterling Trader Pro, CQG, Bookmap and Take Profit Web interfaces.

## Achievements

- Executed over 20 billion shares cumulatively and processed over 10 billion messages
- Handled peak single-day volume of roughly 200 million shares
- Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative, American Financial Technology Awards (2010)
- Best Infrastructure/Technology Initiative, Wall Street Letter Institutional Trading Awards (2016)
- Best Systematic Trading Technology, Markets Choice Awards (2016)
- Best New Risk Product, Markets Choice Awards (2017)

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Eva Sehic appointed CEO and Johan Sandblom appointed President & Head of Business Development.
- **2023-09** — Eva Sehic joins Lime Trading, later driving cost containment and operational efficiency.
- **2022-03** — Score Priority rebrands to Lime Financial, unifying Lime Execution and Score Priority under one brand.

## Links

- Website: https://lime.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/limetrading
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LimeBrokerage
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/LimeBrokerage/?ref=page_internal

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Last updated: 2026-07-19