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Migratory links Tibco GI to Reuters RMDS

November 13th, 2008 - Migratory links Tibco GI to Reuters RMDS via its RMDS2WEB real-time push web server

Mobiu

One of the major headaches with institutional automated and systematic trading is ensuring security of intellectual property (IP). As our “Me and My Machine” interviewee, Miles Kumaresan, points out (on page 36), while it is possible to identify another trader’s strategy from its market footprint, a far greater risk of IP loss lies in it physically walking out of the office door. However, an offshoot of mobile phone technology may just have the answer…

The Shock of the News

Machines 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.

Me and My Machine: The Automated Trader Interview

Miles 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.

Sinara and LSE to provide early-morning critical trading data

October 20th, 2008 - Sinara and LSE launch early-morning critical trading data service

The way we shouldn't have been

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How do you differentiate your electronic execution services?

While the recent proliferation of electronic execution services has presented the buyside with an impressive degree of choice, it has simultaneously landed the sellside with several challenges. How do you make your services stand out from the crowd? What are the main competitive differentiators from the buyside’s perspective? How best can they be delivered? Five leading sellside providers share their views.

Machine versus Man versus Machine?

What’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?

Kx Systems celebrates 15 years in business

June 18th, 2008 - Kx Systems, is celebrating 15 years in business.

New enhanced multi-core Kdb+ includes DTrace and more speed

June 9th, 2008 - Kx Systems has announced a new version of Kdb+.