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You want alpha with that?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYAnd do you want your order well done, or scrambled? Helen Sanders serves up the latest in adaptive routing technology.full story
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Give us an A!
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYScribes and soothsayers have been analysing trades since the first cargo of spices was unloaded from the first camel train. But would their work have been any easier if they’d had laptops? William Essex looks for simplicity in the evolving complexity of pre-, post-, and above all during-trade analysis.full story
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Perfect Partners?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYDo partnerships add value? Really? Are you sure? How much value? As the Automated Trader editorial inboxes clog up with more and more news releases about exciting new partnerships, William Essex wonders, is this really the most effective use of time and resources?full story
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The Shock of the News
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYMachines can read the news now, but can they be trusted to act on it? There’s been a lot of talk about machine-readable news since our Q1 2008 feature*, but does that go any further than adding bells, whistles and meta-tags to the text streaming across the bottom of the screen? Spurred on by recent events, William Essex has returned to the search for a genuinely machine-usable news solution.full story
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Machine versus Man versus Machine?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWhat’s the sense in trading the traders? William Essex closes our discussion of commodities with a look at the changing behaviour of the markets themselves. Might the “electronic effect”, and within that a distinct “algo effect”, itself become a factor in a commodity-trading strategy? full story
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Volatile but fundamentally floored?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWe continue our coverage of commodities with one man’s analysis of the long-term case for investment. David Nahmanovici delivered his analysis at IDX in London, back in June. We were in the audience. full story
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Commodities on the menu
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Hard and soft, edible and not-so-edible commodities have been a hot topic recently. But what substance is there behind the sizzle? Automated Trader has been looking into the current commodity boom, and asking, are these markets ripe for automation, and if so, what are their trading characteristics and their long-term potential for automated alpha generation? In the first of our series of linked articles on this theme, Dr. Robert Brady, CTO of Brady PLC analyses the current use and likely future evolution of automated trading in commodities markets. This is, as Dr. Brady observes, a whole asset class in transition. Some of its trading practices are arcane, but some put it right up on the screen alongside already heavily auto-traded markets such as FX and stock indices. Shouldn’t you be getting a feed on commodities? full story
