Articles related to Automated and Algorithmic Trading from current and previous issues of Automated Trader magazine.
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Do Black Swans Swim in Dark Pools? Issue 09 Q2 2008
The continued rise of dark liquidity and the development of more sophisticated execution algorithms could increase regulatory obligations on brokers and/or exchanges, according to Mary Lou Von Kaenel, Managing Director, Management Consulting, Jordan & Jordan, and Greg Malatestinic, Senior Software Engineer, Jordan & Jordan.
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Transition Management: Best Execution through Algorithmic Trading Issue 09 Q2 2008
The ability to restructure investment portfolios with minimal cost, risk or information leakage is a critical skill in today’s competitive fund management industry. Joseph Sidibe, Vice President, Execution Sales Desk, EMEA, Merrill Lynch, explains how use of algorithmic trading techniques can help ensure best execution in transaction management.
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Machine Learning + Regime Switching = Profitability? Issue 09 Q2 2008
The concept of regimes – such as bull and bear markets – is elemental to financial markets. The desire to predict regime switches, commonly known as turning points, is similarly elemental. Ernest Chan, CEO of E. P. Chan & Associates, examines a possible technique for this most demanding of tasks.
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Data Distribution Challenges for Next Generation Applications Issue 09 Q2 2008
Angelo Corsaro, Product Marketing Manager, PrismTech Corp., outlines the advantages of a new middleware – data distribution service (DDS) – over messaging technologies currently deployed to support automated and algorithmic trading.
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Optimising Market Data for Buy-Side Automated Trading Issue 09 Q2 2008
The next generation of buy-side trading models is driving new requirements for market data. Buy-side firms use market data in a variety of different ways and for different purposes, but how – asks Valerie Bannert-Thurner, Managing Director of Skyler Technology Europe – can they make the most of the market data available to drive their automated trading decisions?
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Small Cap, Big Challenge Issue 09 Q2 2008
Small and mid cap trade execution is a tough nut to crack. Long ‘dry’ periods, with occasional unexpected patches of liquidity, call for a very different execution style from large caps. Don White, Head of US Equity Product Development at Bloomberg Tradebook, explains how flexible high touch tools can be combined with conventional algos to provide a ‘mid touch’ solution that may produce enhanced small/mid cap execution performance.
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Mr Immediate Issue 09 Q2 2008
Steve Radez, CEO of Essex Radez, has a strong claim to be the world’s first automated trader. Together with Essex Radez’s CTO, John Muelhausen, he explains how technology and automation have been constant themes in a three-decade trading career.
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MiFID Descends across Europe Issue 09 Q2 2008
Six months after its launch, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has begun to stimulate greater competition between trade execution venues, but the fragmentation of liquidity and trade reporting has also caused confusion among buy-side institutions. Chris Hall reports.
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This Issue's Round-up of AT's Proprietary Alphability Metrics Issue 09 Q2 2008
Automated Trader's proprietary tradability metrics are environmental statistics intended to assist those building trading models/systems in determining which markets and timeframes are most favourably responsive to which generic types of model.
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Picking up the Pace Issue 09 Q2 2008
The idiosyncrasies of the fixed income market have made it a laggard in the adoption of automated and algorithmic trading, but the soul searching that followed the sub-prime crisis may accelerate uptake, reports Chris Hall.
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The Multi-Venue FX Algo Issue 09 Q2 2008
Ian Smith, Director, and Cameron Mouat, Head of AES FX Trading, Credit Suisse, provide an example of how execution algorithms capture liquidity across multiple trading venues in the foreign exchange market.
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Ready for Take-off? Issue 09 Q2 2008
Are today’s order and execution management systems capable of guiding buy-side dealers through an increasingly complex trading environment or will new hybrid solutions emerge? AT asks leading providers to share their views.
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Morgan’s Mission Issue 09 Q2 2008
As one of the world’s largest fund managers, JPMorgan Asset Management’s trading operations increasingly resemble those of an agency broker. Daemon Bear, Head of Equity Trading, and Kristian West, Head of Trading Strategy, who recently joined from Barclays Capital, explain the tools and processes employed by the firm in pursuit of best execution.
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Just a lot of hot air? Issue 09 Q2 2008
Why, in the era of webinars, wikipedia and www.automatedtrader.net, do people still go to conferences?
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The Middle East: A Region Rich in Opportunity Issue 08 Q1 2008
Gary King, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Mercantile Exchange, explains why trading firms should look beyond Asia for new investment opportunities to a region whose financial markets are primed for an expansion in algorithmic and automated trading.
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