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Leader: Fast Forward into the Multi Asset Future?
FREE ARTICLEA new evolution of synthetic trading is starting to generate interest – multi asset class algorithmic trading. If there is a need to spread trading activity across a wider asset base, why not let the machine help finesse some of the component trades? Davi read this
Exchange Views: LSE Multi Asset Futureproofing
FREE ARTICLETechnology first came to the forefront at the London Stock Exchange in 1986 when the exchange abandoned floor trading. Since then, technology has only continued to increase in importance, particularly since the exchange’s switch to listed company st read this
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, met read this
Strategies: Optimisation Algorithms for Automated Trading
FREE ARTICLEAutomation opens up the possibility of trading multiple models or the same/similar model with multiple parameter sets. However, that raises the question of how best to optimise those parameter sets. Chris Donnan, who works in equity derivatives trad read this
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 algorithm read this
AT Round Table: Algorithmic Trading - Creating real value for the buyside
FREE ARTICLEAs algorithmic trading continues to mature, the buyside is becoming more demanding. Providers are now being judged on a more holistic basis than in the past, with an emphasis on their overall ability to add value. AT talks to five prominent sellside read this
Kdb+tow v. 2.3 Speeds Time-To-Market For Developing and Testing New Trading Strategies
FREE ARTICLEKx systems, has announced worldwide availability of the latest version of their kdb+tow application. Kdb+tow v. 2.3 allows traders to replay tick data more quickly so they can develop and test new algorithmic trading strategies. Depending on the level of read this
Vhayu Releases Velocity 6.0 to Manage Dramatic Rise in Market Data
FREE ARTICLEVhayu, a leader in streaming tick processing and persistence software, has announced the launch of Vhayu Velocity^TM 6.0 to significantly improve the speed and scalability of trading applications. Velocity 6.0 has incorporated features designed for global read this
Vhayu launches Velocity for Options service
FREE ARTICLEVhayu, has announced availability of Vhayu Velocity for Options which provides real-time analytics and storage of dynamic options market data. Velocity for Options is the only tick capture engine available that can scan and analyse the entire US equities read this
Exchange Views: ISE - Automation Inspiration
FREE ARTICLEIn April of this year, the International Securities Exchange announced that it would be entering the equities market through the launch of the ISE Stock Exchange. AT talks to David Krell, President and Chief Executive Officer of the ISE about this initiat read this
Technology Workshop: Java - Your High-Frequency Friend
FREE ARTICLEAn article in the April issue of AT (“You’re using what?!”) questioned the suitability of Java for high frequency automated trading. Matt Schruben, Principal Consultant, Random Walk Computing and Jim Levey, Director of Marketing, Random Walk Computing pro read this
AT Round Table: Pre-trade analytics - expectations and reality
FREE ARTICLEPre-trade analytics have become an integral part of the workflow for algorithmic traders. We asked four major sellside banks for their views on some of the current and emerging themes in analytics. With: - Chris Biscoe, Head of US Ecommerce, Barclays C read this
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 read this
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 read this
Pretests for genetic-programming evolved trading programs: “zero-intelligence” strategies and lottery trading - Part 1
FREE ARTICLEIn this paper, we discuss a series of pretests, based on several variants of random search, aiming at giving more clearcut answers as to whether a GP scheme, or any other machine-learning technique, can be effective with the training data at hand. Precise read this
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. read this
Algorithmic trading: fact or fiction?
FREE ARTICLEThe rise in the popularity of algorithmic trading has been accompanied by a commensurate increase in the amount of marketing material that relates to algorithmic trading. Unfortunately a significant proportion of this material has a tendency to confuse ra read this
Market data connectivity
FREE ARTICLEWith: - David Hann, general manager for EMEA at Interactive Data Real-Time Services - Gregory Smith, CEO at Cicada Corporation - Mark Akass, CTO at BT Radianz - Alasdair Moore, global head of sales at Fixnetix - Guy Tagliavia, president and CEO at Infody read this
REUTERS EXPANDS GLOBAL LOW LATENCY FEED OFFERINGS IN EUROPE AND ASIA
FREE ARTICLEApril 19, 2007 - Reuters has increased the number of venues available via Reuters Data Feed Direct (RDF-Direct) by adding six new venues to its direct exchange data service in locations across Asia and Europe. The move will meet growing demand from custom read this
Reuters announces news sentiment analysis to give trading machines market insight
FREE ARTICLEMay 1, 2007 - Reuters has expanded its machine-readable news offering to include analysis of news sentiment powered by a linguistics application from Corpora plc. read this
Financial Data Mining with Genetic Programming: a Survey and Look Forward
REGISTERED VIEWERS Genetic Programming (GP) is an appealing machine-learning technique for tackling financial engineering problems: it belongs to the family of evolutionary algorithms that have proven to be remarkably successful at handling complex optimization problems read this
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 te read this
Application Latency
REGISTERED VIEWERSAs growing competition places ever greater emphasis on the fine-tuning of automated and algorithmic trading programmes, AT asks leading solutions providers for their views on the tweaks that can minimise application latency and maximise performance. Wi read this
Naked Option by Joe Kolman
REGISTERED VIEWERSDave Ackerman, the narrator of Naked Option, is a brilliant trader but one day, recklessly trying to one-up his firm's superstar, he goes naked on an option trade and loses $112 million in two hours. His career is over. Then he hears about an auditing job read this
Gemstone Systems releases Gemstone Enterprise 5.1
FREE ARTICLEOctober 30th 2007 – GemStone Systems, provider of distributed data management and virtualization solutions, today announced GemFire Enterprise 5.1, a core component of its high-performance, enterprise data fabric (EDF). The new GemFire Enterprise 5.1 rel read this
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. read this
RTS to be First ISV to Deliver The Bond Buyer’s RapiDataDigital Economic Data Feed
FREE ARTICLEDecember 5th 2007 – RTS Realtime Systems Group has announced an agreement with The Bond Buyer’s RapiData to become the first ISV to provide its users with direct access to RapiData’s new low latency digital economic data feed. The agreement enables RTS t read this
Reuters Launches Fast Enabled OPRA Direct Feed to Handle more than 1 Million Updates per Second
FREE ARTICLEJanuary 21st 2008 - Reuters has announced the launch of Reuters Data Feed Direct (RDFD) for the Options Price Reporting Authority’s (OPRA) FAST enabled data feed. Reuters Data Feed Direct OPRA is designed to process over one million updates per second usi read this
All the News that’s Fit to Trade
FREE ARTICLENews 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. read this
Cream Rising
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYBlackCat Trading Technologies’ Matthew Breakwell and John Reeve explain their distinctive approach to building a quantitative trading platform and outline their plans for exploiting it. read this
Finding the Correct Path Through Market Turbulence
FREE ARTICLERecent 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 tra read this
Comtex Introduces New Black Box Trading CustomWire® –Transform Real-Time News into Actionable Trading Data
STILL EDITINGApril 14th 2008 - COMTEX NEWS NETWORK, INC. introduced a new, proprietary CustomWire targeted to meet the needs of buy- and sell-side algorithmic traders. read this
Machine Learning + Regime Switching = Profitability?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYThe concept of regimes – such as bull and bear markets – is elemental to financial markets. The desire to predict regime switches, commonly known as turning points, is similarly elemental. Ernest Chan, CEO of E. P. Chan & Associates, examines a possible t read this
Alphacet works with BT and interactive data to offer real-time, turn key platform for quantatative strategy development
FREE ARTICLEJune 3rd, 2008 - Alphacet, Inc. has announced a new ASP trial program that gives clients 90-days access to test the features and capabilities of Alphacet Discovery. read this
New enhanced multi-core Kdb+ includes DTrace and more speed
FREE ARTICLEJune 9th, 2008 - Kx Systems has announced a new version of Kdb+. read this
Kx Systems celebrates 15 years in business
STILL EDITINGJune 18th, 2008 - Kx Systems, is celebrating 15 years in business. read this
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&rdq read this
How do you differentiate your electronic execution services?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWhile 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 read this
The way we shouldn't have been
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYEditor’s note: Peek Ahead is our venue for blue-sky thinking, challenging conventional wisdom and out-and-out disagreeing over key industry issues. If you would like to comment, or disagree, or send in some of your own blue-sky thinking, write t read this