Automated Trader Issue 08 Q1 2008
- Algos in Asia
Know your Market - Machine Readable News
Read all about it - Anatomy of an Algo
The Liquidity Seeker - Cream Rising
The AT Interview
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The Middle East: A Region Rich in Opportunity
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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The Role of Advanced Models in Performance Boosting
In the second part of a two-part article, David Aronson, President of Hood River Research, examines the modelling techniques used in arriving at a valuable predictor set for boosting ‘raw’ trading model performance.
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Adapting Algorithms to Realities of Asian Markets
If execution algorithms are to be adopted widely in the Asian markets, both providers and users must be aware of the unique characteristics of trading in the region, says Dr Usman Malik of P. E. Lynch LLP.
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New Horizons for Complex Event Processing
Daniel Chait, Managing Director, Lab49, asserts that CEP has a wide range of applications beyond algo/auto trading.
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Do Your Testing Methods Deliver?
Much of the underperformance of messaging systems can be attributed to inadequate measuring tools and testing conditions, according to Barry Thompson, Founder and CTO, and Dave Lauer, Senior Systems Engineer, Tervela.
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All the News that’s Fit to Trade
News has been moving financial markets since before Julius Reuter released his first pigeon. Chris Hall asks whether machine-readable news will give traders an edge.
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The Liquidity Seeker
Chris McConville, Executive Director, Equities at UBS Investment Bank, narrates the typical use of a liquidity-seeking algorithm to trade a fictitious investment trust.
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Buy Side Flocks to FX
Auto and algo trading techniques are being deployed by a wide range of buy-side firms in the increasingly crowded, but not always transparent, waters of the FX market. Chris Hall reports.
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This Issue's Round-up of AT's Proprietary Alphability Metrics
Trend and Reversal Alphability data for stock index and bond futures and top/bottom five Dow stocks.
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Rising to the Cross-Asset Challenge
How are automated traders exploiting cross- and multi-asset trading opportunities and how are suppliers supporting increased demand? These topics and more were discussed by our panel at the FIA’s Expo 2007, Chicago.
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Hard and Fast?
Hardware and networking infrastructures should be the building blocks of any market participant’s algorithmic and automated trading capabilities. AT asks leading providers to share their views on the latest techniques and technologies.
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A Singular Vision
Its recent merger with the CBOT saw CME Group expand further the range of asset classes available on its Globex platform. Deputy CIO Kevin Kometer looks at the diverse challenges ahead.
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Cream Rising
BlackCat Trading Technologies’ Matthew Breakwell and John Reeve explain their distinctive approach to building a quantitative trading platform and outline their plans for exploiting it.
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The Blame Game
When things go wrong, the reflex reaction is to apportion blame. When things go wrong in the financial markets, who will the regulators be pointing their fingers at?
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Finding the Correct Path Through Market Turbulence
Recent months have seen financial markets experience more turbulence than perhaps ever before. Market corrections, war in the Middle East, sub-prime crisis, bulls and bears not sure which they are, and more recently the return of the 'big style' rogue trader have caused more volatility, I would suggest, than most have ever experienced.
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Proximity Hosting: Plug’n’Trade or Pay’n’Wait?
Proximity and trading application hosting have been some of the fastest growing areas in the evolution of automated and algorithmic trading. Mark Thornberry, Managing Director at RTS Realtime Systems, London, discusses some of the main considerations for traders evaluating its various flavours.
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