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The Automated Trader Magazine Case Study is an interview with a buyside or sellside trader actively involved in automated or algorithmic trading. Interviewees range across all types of organisation, market and size.


  • Mr Immediate Mr Immediate

    SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSteve 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. full story

  • Taming the Tiger Taming the Tiger

    QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSMichael Donahue, managing director of TransMarket Group’s Singapore operations, tells AT how the firm is meeting the challenges of automated trading in the diverse and fast-changing Asian financial markets. full story

  • Open Platform Open Platform

    QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSWhen a US options prop shop built a new fast-track strategy development platform, its business model changed overnight. Tom Heffernan, Director, Global Marketing, Last Atlantis Capital Management, explains why the alternative asset manager encourages emerging trading firms to leverage its technology to perfect their own models. full story

  • Distributed automation Distributed automation

    FREE ARTICLEWhile automated trading is now relatively commonplace, Rickey Cheung has been one of a few to take the process a step further. In addition to his own proprietary trading, he also redistributes trading signals to automated trading clients around the world. AT talks to Cheung about his methods and technology. full story

  • Case Study: ABP - à la carte algo Case Study: ABP - à la carte algo

    FREE ARTICLEWith an invested capital of 190bn euros, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP - the pension fund for employees in the service of the Dutch government and educational sector - is the second largest pension fund in the world. The fund has been scaling up its equity exposure in recent years, from 14% of assets in 1995, to more than 30% today. AT talks to Juan-Carlos Rhodes, senior trader at ABP, about how the organisation is making use of algorithmic and DMA technology in its equity trading. full story

  • Case Study: Algo Pairs at Investec Case Study: Algo Pairs at Investec

    FREE ARTICLEInvestec Securities (UK) is a UK institutional equity house offering institutional services across research, sales, sales trading and risk trading. In September 2006, it announced that it had gone live with royalblue’s Fidessa Pairs and VWAP algorithmic trading modules. AT talks to Trevor Gatfield, head of IT for Investec Securities (UK) about the group’s use of the Fidessa Pairs module in its pairs trading activities. full story

  • Case Study: Nordic Models - Auto FX at DnB NOR

    FREE ARTICLEDnB NOR is Norway's largest financial services group with total assets of more than NOK1400bn. The group has an established history of proprietary trading that was expanded in mid 2005 with the addition of an API trading program for FX. AT talks to Jan Stromme, the program’s architect, and Paul Nerby, its head trader, about the program’s technology, techniques and markets. full story