My machine Articles from Automated Trader

My Machine is AT's cover story and is an interview with a leading member of the buyside who is active in algorithmic and / or automated trading.

  • The Automated Trader InterviewThe Automated Trader Interview

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYMaintaining performance during volatility regime change has always been a key challenge for investment managers, but never more so than over the last couple of years. Automated Trader’s CEO, John Howard, spoke to Philip Stoltzfus and Scott Ganis of Thayer Brook Partners about their systematic approach to maintaining returns as volatility becomes a moving target.full story

  • Me and My Machine: The Automated Trader InterviewMe and My Machine: The Automated Trader Interview

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYFor many in the world of automated trading, low latency is critical to their trading performance. By contrast, for Florida-based III, it’s just one component among many. Automated Trader’s Editor, William Essex, spoke to David Allen, III’s portfolio manager, about this. While they were at it, they also discussed “appropriate automation”, artificial intelligence, data interpolation, integrating fundamental data, data maintenance, synthetic markets, in house and outsourced and avoiding the herd - among other things…full story

  • The Automated Trader InterviewThe Automated Trader Interview

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWe vary the theme this month, away from this feature’s customary focus on a purely “machine-driven” fund. John Howard, Publisher of Automated Trader, went to meet the team behind the Danix Master Fund, where a system-based approach co-exists happily with, and complements, a much more hands-on style of trading.full story

  • The Automated Trader InterviewThe Automated Trader Interview

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSuccess at Bluecrest Capital is a team effort, says president Leda Braga. With the company’s two funds, BlueTrend and BlueMatrix, up by 43.35% and 8.81% respectively over 2008, we think that says a lot about the quality of the teamwork there. Automated Trader’s publisher, John Howard, went to meet three key members of the Bluecrest team.full story

  • Me and My Machine: The Automated Trader InterviewMe and My Machine: The Automated Trader Interview

    FREE ARTICLELaunched in November 2007, the Ion Fund is “a 100% systematic fund designed to operate in highly liquid and listed instruments” [major stocks, stock indices, government bonds and currencies]. It came through 2008, the year of vanishing liquidity and corporate bail-outs, with a net 2008 return of 24% (fund objective: an uncorrelated 20%pa). How does a fund like that provide a return like that in a year like that? The Ion Fund’s manager Dennis Lohfert spoke to Automated Trader’s Editor, William Essex, about achieving outperformance in interesting times.full story

  • Dark Pools continue to grow with LeveL leading with more connectivity Dark Pools continue to grow with LeveL leading with more connectivity

    FREE ARTICLENovember 4th, 2008 - LeveL ATS continues expansion, Sterling Financial latest to connect full story

  • Me and My Machine: The Automated Trader InterviewMe and My Machine: The Automated Trader Interview

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYMiles Kumaresan, Head of Quantitative Trading at TransMarket Group Ltd, talks to Automated Trader’s Editor, William Essex, about the development of the company’s High Frequency Quantitative Trading Group.full story

  • OceanWood Capital goes live on Capstone to boost front officeOceanWood Capital goes live on Capstone to boost front office

    FREE ARTICLEOctober 23rd, 2008 - Fidessa LatentZero extends its hedge fund client base full story

  • Only the versatile need apply Only the versatile need apply

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYLegal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has some £300bn in assets under management invested globally. Almost half of this is invested in equities. Mary McCave, LGIM’s senior equity dealer, discusses how LGIM’s trading desk stays on top of the trade. full story

  • Morgan’s Mission Morgan’s Mission

    QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSAs 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. full story

  • Cream Rising Cream Rising

    REGISTERED VIEWERSBlackCat Trading Technologies’ Matthew Breakwell and John Reeve explain their distinctive approach to building a quantitative trading platform and outline their plans for exploiting it.full story

  • Plimsoll Takes the Plunge Plimsoll Takes the Plunge

    REGISTERED VIEWERSTo offer greater diversification to investors, US-based Plimsoll Capital introduced Armada, a portfolio of automated strategies. Tom Parry, Director of Algorithmic Trading, tells AT how the FX-focused asset manager built the platform on which Armada now sails. full story

  • Communicating Ltd: The Trader Stripped Bare Communicating Ltd: The Trader Stripped Bare

    REGISTERED VIEWERSCommunicating Ltd’s path to becoming one of London’s most profitable trading operations started with a revolutionary matching engine that fitted on a floppy disk. Vladan Jovanovic, Managing Director, tells AT how a stripped-down approach to trading and technology has been a consistent factor behind Communicating’s success.full story

  • Empirical execution: Aspect Capital Empirical execution: Aspect Capital

    FREE ARTICLEAspect Capital has a long pedigree as a systematic money manager. As such, it has been well placed to make a logical progression to automated and algorithmic trading. AT talks to Rob Wakefield, Aspect’s chief operating officer, about the firm’s recent activities in these areas and its empirical approach to order execution and algorithms.full story

  • The Boys from Balchug The Boys from Balchug

    FREE ARTICLEDmitry Bourtov runs the US-based hedge fund Solaris, as well as heading a group at the Moscow offices of data vendor CQG that combines the activities of a quant shop and a specialist financial software developer. Bourtov talks to AT about the process by which he and his team design and manage a fleet of automated trading models across hundreds of markets around the globe.full story

  • My Machine: The AT Interview - Algo Reality My Machine: The AT Interview - Algo Reality

    FREE ARTICLEInvestment management firm T. Rowe Price, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, has more than USD300bn under management. The company has a global presence and in common with other major asset managers uses execution algorithms in its various locations. AT talks to Clive Williams, head of European Equity Trading at T. Rowe Price’s London office about his desk’s experience with and expectations of algorithmic trading.full story

  • My Machine: The AT Interview - Amplitude Capital: Precision Automation

    FREE ARTICLEAutomation, both in terms of trading and back office processes, is an intrinsic part of Amplitude Capital’s day to day operation. AT talks to two of Amplitude’s principals, CEO Karsten Schroeder and CFO John Harrison about the firm’s technology, methods and ambitions.full story

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