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CleverAlpha Securities is a registered doing-business-as (DBA) brand of Velocity Capital LLC, an SEC-registered broker-dealer and Member FINRA/SIPC. Velocity Capital LLC holds CRD #159842 and SEC #8-68936. All securities trading, account custody, clearing, and brokerage services are conducted under full regulatory oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

CleverAlpha Securities is the institutional trading and digital brokerage division operated by Velocity Capital LLC. Velocity Capital LLC is the registered entity under which all customer accounts are carried, trades are settled, and clearing relationships are maintained. You can independently verify Velocity Capital LLC's registration and clean regulatory record on FINRA's BrokerCheck using CRD #159842.

CleverAlpha Securities (DBA Velocity Capital LLC) is an SEC-registered broker-dealer providing self-directed trading in equities, options, and fixed income, as well as institutional wholesale CD access through CDexplorer. CleverAlpha Asset Management LLC is a separate SEC-registered investment adviser (RIA) that provides automated quantitative ETF portfolio management at cleveralpha.com. Both entities share a common commitment to mathematical rigor, quantitative discipline, and fiduciary transparency.

Customer securities accounts are protected by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) up to $500,000, which includes up to $250,000 for cash claims. Customer funds and securities are segregated from firm operating assets in accordance with SEC Rule 15c3-3 (the Customer Protection Rule). In addition, cash placed in brokered CDs through CDexplorer receives direct pass-through FDIC insurance up to $250,000 per depositor per issuing bank charter.

You can verify Velocity Capital LLC DBA CleverAlpha Securities directly on FINRA's BrokerCheck at brokercheck.finra.org by searching CRD number 159842 or SEC number 8-68936. The record provides comprehensive information regarding the firm's registrations, approved lines of business, and regulatory compliance history.

CleverAlpha Securities clears and settles securities through premier institutional clearing firms and direct DTC (Depository Trust Company) book-entry facilities. Equities and options settle via NSCC and OCC book-entry, while brokered certificates of deposit settle at DTC par value.

CDexplorer Markets (cdexplorer.com/markets) is a national brokered CD and fixed income marketplace integrated directly into CleverAlpha Securities. It gives retail investors, RIAs, banks, credit unions, and corporate treasuries direct wholesale access to new-issue certificates of deposit from hundreds of FDIC-insured depository institutions and high-grade credit issuers at 100.00 par value.

Buying at 100.00 par means you purchase the certificate of deposit directly at its original face value ($1,000 increments) with zero markups, zero dealer deductions, and zero upfront commissions. When a commercial bank issues a CD at a quoted coupon rate (e.g. 5.18% APY), you receive the exact coupon rate without yield shaving.

Unlike traditional bank CDs that are tied to a single bank account and carry severe early-withdrawal penalty fees, brokered CDs are issued in DTC book-entry form and held in your brokerage account. Key advantages include access to hundreds of nationwide banks from one login, the ability to build multi-bank ladders with millions in FDIC insurance, and daily secondary market liquidity without early withdrawal penalties.

Yes. Brokered CDs have an active secondary market. If you need liquidity before maturity, you can sell your CD in the secondary market at prevailing market prices without paying a bank early-withdrawal penalty. Because secondary market prices fluctuate with interest rates, selling prior to maturity may result in a price above or below par.

CDexplorer aggregates wholesale new issues from hundreds of federally insured depository institutions—ranging from national money-center institutions (such as Goldman Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, and Morgan Stanley Bank) to regional commercial banks, holding companies, credit unions, and high-grade corporate note issuers.

No. New-issue brokered certificates of deposit on CDexplorer are offered at 100.00 par value with $0 commission. The issuing bank pays an underwriting concession to the syndicate, ensuring clients receive 100% of the stated coupon yield.

Under FDIC regulations (12 CFR Part 330), insurance coverage passes through the broker-dealer directly to you as the beneficial owner. Because each certificate of deposit is issued by a distinct bank charter, your deposits receive independent FDIC insurance up to $250,000 (principal plus accrued interest) per depositor, per issuing institution.

By using CDexplorer's multi-charter ladder builder, capital is systematically allocated across 20 or more separate FDIC-insured bank charters ($250,000 cap per charter). This enables corporate treasuries, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals to insure $5M, $10M, or more in cash under a single brokerage account with a single consolidated tax reporting statement.

Yes. CDexplorer features automated multi-charter headroom monitoring that tracks your aggregate allocations across all issuing institutions. The platform prevents over-concentration by ensuring you do not allocate more than the $250,000 federal insurance limit to any single bank charter.

Brokered CDs receive dual institutional protection. The underlying deposit certificate is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government through the FDIC up to $250,000 per charter. The brokerage account in which the DTC book-entry certificates are held is protected by SIPC up to $500,000.

CA Ticket is a proprietary browser extension and bookmark ticketing engine that allows clients to initiate orders on any stock or ETF ticker they see anywhere on the web (news articles, research portals, blogs, social feeds). Clicking CA Ticket pre-fills the order ticket, validates account margin, and permanently records the origin source website for trade provenance.

Watchlist Batch Buy allows traders to tick multiple symbols across their custom watchlists and execute them simultaneously with a single consolidated confirmation dialog. The order router splits the batch into individual orders and routes them directly to optimal exchange venues with sub-12 millisecond latency.

CleverAlpha Securities provides three distinct position reduction modes: (1) Full liquidation (sell all), (2) Pro-rata reduction across selected portfolio holdings to de-risk proportionally, and (3) Granular specific-lot liquidation via in-grid tax lot drill-down.

Yes. The trading platform includes institutional CSV basket order upload. Users can download a formatted CSV template, enter target quantities and order types, preview and validate the order batch before execution, and download complete CSV execution fills and position summaries.

CleverAlpha Securities uses smart order routing (SOR) engineered to prioritize price improvement and minimal market impact across 16+ execution venues, avoiding conflicts inherent in retail payment-for-order-flow internalization.

Every position in your trading grid expands into an individual tax-lot drill-down. Each lot displays holding term (Short-Term vs. Long-Term), days held, cost basis, current mark, and the exact countdown date when a short-term lot matures into preferential long-term capital gains tax treatment. In-grid footers dynamically reconcile lot totals to the parent position.

The Tax Loss Harvesting engine allows you to define a target net-gain budget (short-term + long-term, dynamically accounting for year-to-date realized gains). The algorithm solves for the optimal combination of unrealized loss lots, presents a structured proposal where you can untick lots to keep, and sends limit-at-bid orders with specific-lot instructions.

The account dashboard and reporting engine strictly bifurcate realized and unrealized profit and loss by holding period (Short-Term < 1 year vs. Long-Term >= 1 year). This gives fiduciaries and tax planners audit-ready clarity throughout the tax year.

When an underlying stock has an upcoming earnings announcement, the CleverAlpha options chain automatically highlights the specific expiration cycle capturing the event in signature Gold. It prominently calculates and displays the market-implied earnings move (%) alongside the event volatility premium in volatility points.

The Scenario Builder is an interactive strategy dock that allows options traders to model complex multi-leg structures—including vertical spreads, iron condors, butterflies, straddles, and calendar diagonals. It computes risk graphs, break-even thresholds, max profit/loss, and dynamic Greeks attribution under varying volatility and price scenarios.

The trading app features a living 3D volatility surface topological manifold. It maps strike moneyness (80% to 120% K/S) against expiration tenors (7 days to 2 years) to visualize implied volatility skew, smile dynamics, and term structure contango or backwardation.

The Structured Product Builder allows accredited and institutional investors to model and structure tailored fixed income and equity-linked notes, principal-protected overlays, and defined-outcome strategies with integrated suitability validation and pre-trade disclosures.

ETF Research Intelligence is an on-demand optimization tool. When triggered, it analyzes your current ETF holdings and automatically discovers up to three same-category peers that offer lower expense ratios, higher dividend yields, or superior risk-adjusted Sharpe ratios, citing sourced comparative metrics for each peer.

The Macro Stress Test engine simulates portfolio performance against historical and hypothetical macroeconomic shocks—such as 2008 credit stress, 2020 liquidity freeze, interest rate spike regimes, and commodity price dislocations—providing tail-risk drawdown projections and regime notes.

RIAs and multi-family offices can establish master institutional relationships to manage fixed income CD ladders and equity/options strategies for their high-net-worth clients from a single portal, eliminating the need to log into dozens of individual commercial banks.

Yes. We support full and partial Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS) transfers from all major US brokerage firms (Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE, Interactive Brokers, Pershing, Apex). Equities, ETFs, options, and fixed income positions can transfer in-kind without tax consequences.

Corporate treasuries, community banks, and credit unions use CDexplorer and CleverAlpha Securities to maximize yields on balance sheet liquidity while keeping 100% of deposits federally insured under multi-charter architecture with consolidated audit-ready reporting.