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EdgeTrade Selects Wombat for High Speed Data Platform
FREE ARTICLEWombat Financial Software announced today that EdgeTrade Inc. has licensed The Wombat Platform to enhance the utility of Execution Management System(TM), EdgeTrade's independent, agency front-end platform for trading of single stock and basket equity orde read this
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
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 St read this
Technology Workshop: Algo Integration – Can FIX Fix It?
FREE ARTICLEThe FIX Protocol’s provision of a broad set of commonly accepted standards has radically simplified and reduced the cost of financial messaging in capital markets. A relatively recent innovation within FIX has been the work of the Algorithmic Trading W read this
Spotlight: Patsystems IQ-Trader
FREE ARTICLEPatsystems were one of the first ISVs to launch an electronic dealing platform when futures markets began migrating from open outcry in the 1990s. AT takes a look at the automated trading functionality within the latest incarnation of its mid-tier IQ read this
Tech Forum: The OMS - Moving On, Moving Up
FREE ARTICLEOne type of trading technology that has been much affected by the growth in algorithmic trading is the OMS. AT talks to five leading OMS vendors to find out how changes in the market are affecting their businesses and how they are dealing with those cha 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
Spotlight: RTD Tango - Cutting to the Chase
FREE ARTICLETools for trade automation have been around for several years. One of the later arrivals at the automation party is RTS Realtime Systems Group, which launched its RTD Tango automated/algorithmic modelling and trade execution platform last year. As read this
Dow Jones Announces News and Archives for Algorithmic Applications
FREE ARTICLEDow Jones Newswires today announced the launch of Dow Jones News and Archives for Algorithmic Applications. The new solution enables banks, securities firms and hedge funds to incorporate Dow Jones news into their quantitative models and computerised trad read this
Smart Trade and the QuickFIX/J Team Roll out the First 100% Java Open Source FIX Engine for the Financial Markets
FREE ARTICLESmart Trade Technologies and the QuickFIX/J Team have announced the worldwide production release of QuickFIX/J, a pure Java implementation of the QuickFIX engine and the only full-featured open source Java FIX engine currently available. This initiati read this
LEADING ORGANISATIONS JOIN FORCES TO DEVELOP NEW MESSAGING PROTOCOL
FREE ARTICLEJPMorgan Chase & Co., Cisco Systems, Envoy Technologies, iMatix Corporation, IONA? Technologies, Red Hat, Inc., TWIST Process Innovations, and 29West, have announced the formation of the AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) Working Group and an effort read this
ICE enhances e-trading platform
FREE ARTICLEICE is an electronic energy marketplace serving a diverse range of participants in the global futures and over-the-counter marketplace. Today approximately 50% of the world's crude futures contracts are traded on the ICE platform.ICE serves a diverse rang read this
MetaQuotes Software Corp. Starts the Automated Trading Championship
FREE ARTICLEThe developer of online trading platforms for financial markets, MetaQuotes Software Corp. co-sponsoring with Spacevision Switzerland SA, FXDirectDealer LLC. and Interbank FX LLC. commences the brand-new Automated Trading Championship 2006. read this
Cantor Fitzgerald Makes Faster Market Decisions with Realtime Analysis Platform Built on Kx Systems
FREE ARTICLEKx Systems, has announced that Cantor Fitzgerald has completed a comprehensive system to handle historical data analysis and immediate querying of streaming market data based entirely on the Kx kdb+ database and "q" programming language. Cantor's traders read this
RTS boosts its algorithmic trading solution
FREE ARTICLEThis fully automated & program-controlled system is easily programmable and enables users without extensive programming skills to develop, test and implement algorithmic strategies in optimal idea-to-execution speed. read this
RBC Capital to deploy Wombat market data platform
FREE ARTICLENew York-based Wombat Financial Software has signed RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Canada's RBC Financial Group, to its market data distribution technology. Wombat says RBC Capital Markets' proprietary trading desk has se read this
Progress Software Extends Event Processing Market Leadership with Introduction of Apama? 3.0
FREE ARTICLEProgress Software Corporation has announced the availability of the Progress? Apama? 3.0 platform. This enables organisations to turn all forms of event data into real-time business intelligence in applications such as algorithmic trading for financial se read this
RBC Capital to deploy Wombat market data platform
FREE ARTICLENew York-based Wombat Financial Software has signed RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Canada's RBC Financial Group, to its market data distribution technology. Wombat says RBC Capital Markets' proprietary trading desk has se read this
Progress Software Extends Event Processing Market Leadership with Introduction of Apama? 3.0
FREE ARTICLEProgress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), has announced the availability of the Progress? Apama? 3.0 platform. The industry?s most comprehensive event processing platform enables organizations to transform all forms of event data into real-time busine read this
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 read this
UniCredit HypoVereinsbank (HVB) Selects Kx Systems for Realtime
FREE ARTICLEFeb 7th 2007 - Kdb+ Database, Kdb+tick and Q Language Provide Streaming and Historical Query Capabilities Across Multiple Trading Desks 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
Hedge Funds and Multi Asset Algorithmic Trading - Perfect Partners?
FREE ARTICLEThe exponential growth of the hedge fund sector has been a major feature of capital markets over the past few years. Another more recent hot topic has been algorithmic trading across multiple asset classes. Matt Simon, Analyst at the TABB Group consi read this
FPGA's - Parallel Perfection?
FREE ARTICLEFPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) may not be new technology, but as the data crunching race in automated/algorithmic trading continues to intensify, could they be an idea whose time has finally come? AT talks to Alistair MacArthur, Senior Resear 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
Catching up with technology: The impact of regulatory changes on ECNs/MTFs Part 2
FREE ARTICLEIn recent years the landscape of trading venues has been transformed by technological advances. New trading concepts and infrastructures along the securities trading value chain have been established. With RegNMS ("Regulation National Market System") in 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
Pretests for genetic-programming evolved trading programs: “zero-intelligence” strategies and lottery trading - Part 2
FREE ARTICLEPart 2 of Pretests for genetic-programming evolved trading programs: “zero-intelligence” strategies and lottery trading bootstrap paper. By Shu-Heng Chen and Nicolas Navet read this
High frequency data analysis
FREE ARTICLEAs the requirements for storing, manipulating and deriving intelligence from ever larger data sets continue to expand, techniques and technology have to keep pace. Brian Sentance, CEO of Xenomorph, outlines some of the prerequisites. read this
Autotrading CTAs
FREE ARTICLEGiven the number of CTAs with systematic rather than discretionary trading styles, CTAs as a breed would seem naturals for automated trading. But as Kim Hunter finds out, while they have been keen adopters of the technology, there are still plenty of leop 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
RTS Announces RTD Tango Backtester
FREE ARTICLEApril 25, 2007 - Automated Trading Tool Lets Traders Test Strategies Against Historical Data. Designed to allow traders to comprehensively and easily test their trading models before putting them into action, the RTD Tango Backtester can assist users wit read this
BEA enters event-driven architecture arena
FREE ARTICLEMay 29, 2007 - BEA has entered the event-driven architecture market with a product geared for SOA using Java. read this
ANTs and Coral8 Team to Boost Performance for Next-Generation Complex Event Processing Application Environments
FREE ARTICLEMay 30, 2007 - ANTs software inc., a provider of compatible, high-performance SQL database management systems, and Coral8, Inc., a leading provider of complex event processing (CEP) software, today announced a joint marketing and alliance agreement for a read this
III Offshore Advisors Selects Digipede for Hedge Fund Analytic Grid
FREE ARTICLEMay 31, 2007 - A grid software provider Digipede Technologies announced today that hedge-fund manager III Offshore Advisors (III) has deployed the Digipede Network to power its high-performance financial analytics grid. Digipede is providing III with the read this
PFSoft Delivers an Advanced Scripting Engine for ProTraderFX Platform
FREE ARTICLEJune 5, 2007 - PFSoft today announced the release of a scripting engine for ProTraderFX platform. A combination of development tools and a new scripting language, ProTrader Scripting enables Forex traders to develop, debug, test and refine strategies for read this
Investment Technology Group to Acquire RedSky Financial
FREE ARTICLEJune 8, 2007 – Investment Technology Group, Inc., provider of technology-based trading services and transaction research, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held RedSky Financial, LLC, a Chicago-based br read this
Assessing the Risk and Return of Financial Trading Systems - a Large Deviation Approach
FREE ARTICLEWe apply large deviation theory to assess the probability that a trading system performs below or above a certain threshold. Our technique does not require that the distribution of the performance criterion obeys a closed-form equation, and can accept a read this
Entropy Rate and Profitability of Technical Analysis: Experiments on the NYSE US 100 Stocks
FREE ARTICLE The entropy rate of a dynamic process measures the uncertainty that remains in the next information produced by the process given complete knowledge of the past. It is thus a natural measure of the difficulty to predict the evolution of the process. T 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
RTS Offers Connectivity to Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange
FREE ARTICLEJuly 3, 2007 – RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), announced that the firm is now offering access to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX). The move expands the RTS presence in the Middle East and further strengthens its leadership position in electr 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
vwd group, Germany, goes live with Tenfore FX data feed
FREE ARTICLEJuly 16, 2007 - Tenfore Systems Ltd, an independent provider of real-time and historic global market data, today announced that vwd group, Germany’s largest provider of financial information systems, is live with Tenfore’s FX data feed, Tenforex. This ena read this
Backtesting: Best practice principles for beating the market
REGISTERED VIEWERSIn an increasingly crowded market, traders need comprehensive, integrated backtesting capabilities to ensure their algorithms stay ahead of the competition. Jorin Daleanes, Sales and Account Manager, RTD Tango and Backtester, and Steffen Gemuenden, Co C 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
FPL Announces FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language Enters Beta Phase
FREE ARTICLEJuly 23, 2007 – FIX Protocol Ltd has announced that the FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language has entered its beta phase in preparation for its ultimate release targeted for late 2007. read this
Switzerland’s AIG Private Bank Selects Charles River Development to Automate Compliance of Asset Management Operations
FREE ARTICLEAugust 6, 2007 — Charles River Development has announced that Zurich-based AIG Private Bank has selected the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) to automate compliance monitoring across its mutual fund management arm, AIG Fund M read this
FPL Announces FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language Enters Beta Phase
FREE ARTICLEAugust 16th, 2007 – FIX Protocol Ltd has announced that the FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language has entered its beta phase in preparation for its ultimate release targeted for late 2007. The new language will deliver advanced support for algorithm read this
Portware Opens Hong Kong Office to Support Growth in Asia
FREE ARTICLEAugust 21, 2007 – Portware LLC today announced the opening of its Hong Kong office to support its growing client base in the Asia and the Pacific region. read this
Charles River Development Expands Regional Presence in Japan
FREE ARTICLEAugust 23, 2007 — Charles River Development, today announced the expansion of its global operations with a regional office in Tokyo, Japan. read this
Arcontech Announces its Axe Trading System
FREE ARTICLESeptember 3, 2007 - Arcontech today unveiled its AXE software product, aimed at brokers and start-ups wishing to cash-in on the burgeoning market for Contract for Difference trading and Spread Betting. read this
Growing Number of Hedge Funds Choose Interactive Data’s High-Quality, Low Latency Datafeed to Power Algorithmic Applications
FREE ARTICLESeptember 10, 2007 - Interactive Data Corporation today announced that its Real-Time Services business has gained greater share in the global hedge fund market, as it now delivers low latency data to more than 50 hedge fund customers in the U.S. and Europ read this
New Star-P for Financial Services brings supercomputing to Wall Street
FREE ARTICLESeptember 10, 2007 - Interactive Supercomputing has announced a new version of its Star-P software designed to make high performance computing (HPC) easier and more accessible to financial services organizations. read this
Credit Modeling with Supercomputing
FREE ARTICLESeptember 10, 2007 - Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P software is helping Julius Finance bring new computational techniques to one of the most challenging analytical problems in institutional finance: credit modeling. read this
Digipede Launches the Digipede Network 2.0
FREE ARTICLESeptember 17, 2007 – Grid software provider Digipede Technologies, at the High Performance on Wall Street conference, today unveiled the newest version of its award-winning grid software solution for the Microsoft Windows platform. The Digipede Network 2. read this
Arcontech Adds Calculation Engine to Cityvision Suite
FREE ARTICLESeptember 19, 2007 - Arcontech has launched CityVision Calculation Engine, the latest addition to its award-winning CityVision software suite. read this
Dow Jones and RavenPack Collaborate to Deliver Dow Jones News Analytics with API for Customers' Proprietary Trading Systems
FREE ARTICLESeptember 27th, 2007 - Dow Jones has announced the launch of a Dow Jones News Analytics Developer’s Kit, an application programming interface (API) that seamlessly integrates Dow Jones News Analytics' enriched data directly into a customer’s proprietary t read this
TraderTools and Smart Trade Partner to Deliver Access to Multiple Liquidity Providers through a Single FIX Gateway
FREE ARTICLEOctober 17th, 2007 – Through an alliance announced today by TraderTools LLC and Smart Trade Technologies, asset managers now can gain direct access to all liquidity providers, including banks, portals and Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs) through a read this
FIXCITY Launches IOINET:STREAM and IOINET:BOOK for US Buy- and Sell-side Firms
FREE ARTICLE1 November, 2007 – FIXCITY haslaunched two modules for its Indication of Interest (IOI) distribution product ioinet, in the US. ioinet:book is a dedicated sell-side module that enables brokers to view all their IOIs, sent via direct connections and altern read this
Fast Forward for Algorithmic Trading
REGISTERED VIEWERSAlgorithmic trading is on the brink of a new era of standardisation that will accelerate time to market, according to John Goeller, Chair, FPL Algorithmic Trading Working Group and Director of Portfolio and Automated Trading, Merrill Lynch. read this
Taming the Tiger
REGISTERED VIEWERSMichael 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
Speed to Market
REGISTERED VIEWERSHow is the latest technology accelerating the development and implementation of algorithms and automated trading systems? AT asks leading solutions providers to share their views. read this
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 s read this
StreamBase and Reuters Team to Provide Next-Generation Market Data Development Environment
FREE ARTICLENovember 15th 2007 — StreamBase Systems has announced a partnership with Reuters extending StreamBase Studio to make it easier for developers to build high value event processing applications powered by the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) and StreamBase read this
InfoDyne and RTI Team on High-Performance Market-Data Platform
FREE ARTICLENovember 29th 2007 - InfoDyne Corporation has announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Real-Time Innovations to offer RTI’s ultra low-latency messaging middleware as an embedded transport option within InfoDyne’s TPS+Plus Market-Da read this
OMX to deliver and host new trading solution for Agora-X – a new OTC commodity marketplace
FREE ARTICLEJanuary 14th 2008 - OMX has signed an agreement with Agora-X. According to the agreement, OMX will provide a complete hardware, software and operations solution to support Agora-X’s new ECN platform. The new platform is scheduled for launch in mid-2008. read this
Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Statistical Analysis
REGISTERED VIEWERSThe following excerpt is from Chapter 4 of David Aronson's recently published book "Evidence-Based Technical Analysis". Together with Chapters 5 and 6 of the book (which will be available as excerpts later) it addresses aspects of statistics that are part read this
Spooz, Inc. Launches AlgoServer
FREE ARTICLEFebrurary 8th 2008 - Spooz, Inc. has announced that it has deployed AlgoServer, the new Spooz enterprise product that provides Brokers and Institutions new competitive advantages in the market place. Hosting AlgoServer provides brokers and trading Institu read this
Financial Software Company Fidessa to Set Up in Belfast
FREE ARTICLEFebruary 19th 2008 - Invest Northern Ireland today announced that Fidessa group plc is to set up a development centre in Belfast. read this
New Horizons for Complex Event Processing
REGISTERED VIEWERSDaniel Chait, Managing Director, Lab49, asserts that CEP has a wide range of applications beyond algo/auto trading. read this
Buy Side Flocks to FX
REGISTERED VIEWERSAuto 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. read this
Hard and Fast?
REGISTERED VIEWERSHardware 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. read this
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. read this
Marketaxess Announces the Acquisition of Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc
FREE ARTICLEMarch 6th 2008 – MarketAxess Holdings Inc. has announced that it has acquired Chicago-based Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. for total consideration of $42.0 million in cash and stock, consisting of $35.0 million in cash and MarketAxess shares value read this