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Dollar Edges Lower
FREE ARTICLEUSD edged lower on a fresh round of old speculation that $150 bln will be invested in 52 banks by the U.S. Treasury. U.S. equity market futures have turned higher and European indices pared earlier losses, leading to an unwindin read this
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More Layoffs Ahead for GS
FREE ARTICLEDealbreaker reports that there will be further job cuts at Goldman this week as part of the previously announced 10%. An additional round is planned for January, it said. read this
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FX Update: Swissy Firms Amid Weaker Equities
FREE ARTICLECHF traded on a firm footing, with the market influenced by broad based risk reduction. Dow futures are deep in the red and European indices have followed the Asian market lower. EUR/CHF dived from 1.5427 highs in Asia to hit 1.5307 session lows before it read this
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FX Update- AUD
FREE ARTICLEAUD/USD headed lower after failure at 0.6600 during the European morning session. Aussie has not been able to sustain this level throughout the week and an overhang of offers forced another run for cover from short term longs. There was steady downside pr read this
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European Opening Comments
FREE ARTICLE<span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif;">Trading in most markets is quiet following the US Thanksgiving holiday which saw the American markets generally closed.</span> <span style="f read this
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Fixed Income Summary
FREE ARTICLEBoth stocks and bonds managed a similarly firm trajectory going into the long holiday weekend. This followed a fresh round of stimulus from China and Europe that appeared to overcome a rather weighty round of mostly weaker U.S. data. Bullish equity moment read this
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PREVIEW: UK Treasury to Announce Fiscal Jump-Start of GBP 15 Bln
FREE ARTICLEThe UK Treasury is expected to announce a raft of fiscal measures worth £15 billion, about one percent of GDP, in an effort to jump-start the domestic economy and prevent a deep recession. The swift dete read this
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FX Update- AUD
FREE ARTICLEAUD/USD gapped lower after mooted central bank bids at 0.6250 gave way. There were very few prices on the way down once the interest was filled and the pair traded down to 0.6202, spiked up to 0.6230 before another round of selling forced a move down to 0 read this
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FX Update: Aussie Looks Unsteady Around 0.625
FREE ARTICLEAUD/USD traded on a heavier footing after it experienced a round of stop loss selling through 0.6330 and 0.6300. The RBA were tipped at 0.6330, but bids were pulled and this fueled broad selling interest. The pair gapped down to 0.6250-55, but has steadie read this
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FX Update- EUR/USD
FREE ARTICLEEUR/USD has completed its round-trip, and then some, with the pairing now on session lows of 1.2560, after starting the N.Y. day at 1.2620 and vaulting to 1.2813 highs. sagging stocks have taken the lead once again, now that the earlier short squeeze clea read this
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FX Update- EUR
FREE ARTICLEThe FX market was turned on is ear by the earlier noted round of cable and EUR/USD buying, though when U.S. equities opened on a marginally positive footing, follow through buying ensued. EUR/USD has rallied to highs of the week, so far peaking at 1.2801, read this
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FX Update: Sterling Spikes, Continues Monday's Rally
FREE ARTICLEGBP spiked higher amid US name demand, which lifted Cable to 1.5084 highs from European opening levels of 1.4980-85, while EUR/GBP triggered a round of stops below 0.8400 and extended to 0.8373 lows on UK clearer selling. The sterling move is a contin read this
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City AM's Morning Newspaper Round-Up
FREE ARTICLEThe two Scottish banking grandees trying to scupper Lloyds TSB's takeover of the rival HBOS said yesterday they have no plans to give up, despite the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Opposition leader David Cameron both agreeing there was no real read this
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FX Update- USD/JPY Extends Declines
FREE ARTICLEUSD/JPY continues to plummet, as yet another round of stop-loss selling sets in on the move under 96.00. This was the case earlier at the 97.00 level. The pairing posted new lows of 95.30, though has since rebounded to 95.60. The story remains the same, a read this
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City AM's Morning Newspaper Round-Up
FREE ARTICLEOld Mutual, the South African insurer, is to lose Jonathan Nicholls, its finance director, less than two months after its chief executive also left the company. Philip Broadley, formerly financial director at Prudential, the UK life assurer, will step int read this
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FX Summary
FREE ARTICLEThe dollar moved sharply lower through the N.Y. session on Tuesday, as soaring stocks, rallying oil prices, and likely, a pre-election round of long dollar position squaring weighed heavily on the greenback. In addition, the euro and pound likely did bett read this
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Short Selling and Risky Margin
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSince Automated Trader’s Q3 issue hit your desktops, we have been living in interesting times. In our conversations with you in the last few weeks before going to press, two things have been top of your agendas: The short selling ban on financia read this
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Preview: October Chicago PMI
FREE ARTICLE * October Chicago PMI is expected to fall to 47 following a 56.7 reading in September October Chicago PMI is expected to plunge into recessionary territory, as across the board deterioration in the latest round of major manufacturing surveys show read this
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Preview: October Chicago PMI
FREE ARTICLE<ul> <li>October Chicago PMI is expected to fall to 47 following a 56.7 reading in September</li> </ul> October Chicago PMI is expected to plunge into recessionary territory, as across the board deterioration in the latest roun read this
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FX Update: Swissy on Defensive After Equities Rally
FREE ARTICLECHF traded on a softer footing after equities extended their gains in Asia. The Nikkei gained 9.96%, which fueled another round of risk seeking trades in Asia and weighed on the low yielding CHF. EUR/CHF rallied sharply to hit 1.4910 highs and GBP/CHF pos read this
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European Pertinent Press
FREE ARTICLEOut for the Count in the Eyes of Many, The Dollar Rules Again <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/22/business/dollar.php">IHT1</a> http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/22/business/dollar.php Mergers Evaporate with Liquidi read this
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FED Funds implying 50bps rate cut; rumor of intermeeting cut based on weak markets
FREE ARTICLEThere is some notion the FED wil perform an intermeeting rate cut -FED FUNDS trading at 1% - but given Sec Paulson emphasis on a world wide solution and in light of the coordinated round of cuts last time - seems very unlikely the U.S. would stike out on read this
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FX Update- AUD/USD
FREE ARTICLEAUD/USD is supported by M&A related activity, with reports that a local name bought a large amount of Aussie over the course of the session. Some of flows were executed in the European morning, which saw AUD/USD recover from the 0.6630-35 area and tra read this
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FX Summary
FREE ARTICLEThe USD index firmed modestly though the N.Y. session on Thursday, though was unable to take out overnight highs. EUR/USD maintained a soft footing, despite the rather ugly round of U.S. economic releases, while USD/JPY was jittery, and ebbed and flowed w read this
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FX Summary
FREE ARTICLEThe dollar largely held its own on Wednesday with the exception of versus the yen, despite soggy U.S. economic data, and another drubbing of equity prices. The greenback retained a safe haven bid in the face of global recession concerns, and as credit mar read this
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Dow Jones up over 500 points, SPX adds 55, Nasdaq up 106
FREE ARTICLEU.S. stock markets are rocketing higher on hopes the worldwide effort to revive the banking industry will be effective. EU and ECB officials have had a coordinated round of jawboning the market higher but skeptics would lke details of the ECB read this
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Update: ECB's Stark
FREE ARTICLEECB executive board member Jurgen Stark said the signals are that inflation is easing more quickly than before, even though it is still high. Easing will depend on the progress of oil prices and on second-round effects (wage bargaining). Stark also sai read this
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FX Update: European Midday Summary
FREE ARTICLERisk aversion abated as stock markets rebounded, which saw the JPY weaken and the likes of the commodity currencies and recently hard pressed emerging nation units find a footing. EUR/USD also recouped some recent losses, making a new high for the week of read this
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City AM's Morning Newspaper Round-Up
FREE ARTICLEPressure was mounting on Sir Fred Goodwin to resign as chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) last night as the bank prepares to tap the Government's £500 billion rescue fund. The Government is thought to be reluctant to consent read this
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ECB Statement on Rate Cut
FREE ARTICLEThroughout the current financial crisis, central banks have engaged in continuous close consultation and have cooperated in unprecedented joint actions such as the provision of liquidity to reduce strains in financial markets. Inflationary pressures ha read this
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FX Update: Yen Bolstered by Sellers
FREE ARTICLEJapanese name sellers triggered USD/JPY stops to send the pair down to 99.36 lows. Sellers included Japanese lifers and exporters, although follow through has been stymied by importer bids and option related demand. Meanwhile, EUR/JPY down turn was limite read this
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Fidessa LatentZero leads the way with 20 brokers’ algos
FREE ARTICLEOctober 8th, 2008 - Fidessa LatentZero announces integrated access to algorithms from RBC, Instinet, Knight/EdgeTrade and DnB NOR Capital Markets via Minerva read this
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FX: Flight To Quality Supports Swissy
FREE ARTICLECHF remained supported by global risk aversion, with EUR-CHF trading on a heavy footing underneath the 1.5500 handle, although it has held up since it rebounded from Monday's 1.5377 lows. Meanwhile, USD-CHF is trading ahead of 1.1400, with the dol read this
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FX Update: European Outlook
FREE ARTICLEThe RBA's mammoth 100bp rate cut -- its biggest since 1992 -- has set a precedent and boosted speculation for a coordinated round of global rate cuts to counter recessionary winds. That saw Australian stocks rally and Asian markets pare losses. Commo read this
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Joins Linux Foundation
FREE ARTICLESeptember 23rd, 2008 - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange to become a member of the Linux Foundation read this
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Correlix Ltd. Raises Additional $8 Million in Financing Round Led by Sequoia Capital
FREE ARTICLESeptember 3rd, 2008 - Correlix announces the closing of an $8 million Series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital read this
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Liffe’s 100Mbps connectivity and co-location goes live
FREE ARTICLEJuly 18th, 2008 - Technology upgrade provides even faster trading read this
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Algorithmic Trading: What do I really need to do?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSome bright spark is suggesting that your organisation needs to build its own execution algorithms. They loudly point out all the advantages your competitors have gained by doing this. But what is actually involved in embarking on such a project? Dr Paul read this
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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
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A basket of abstractions
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYFirst person in the Q3 issue is South Africa-based subscriber Schalk Myburgh, Business Analyst, Nedbank Equity Capital Markets, who shares his experience of automated and algorithmic trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with editor William Essex. read this
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TradeTech Middle East: Preshow
FREE ARTICLE10.00am Dubai time: a quick look round before the doors officially open read this
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IDX: Day 1 Round Up
FREE ARTICLE writeFlash({swliveconnect:true,scale:'exactfit',wmode:'opaque',id:'idxday1',src:'../Files/Flash/idx_day1b.swf',align:'left',width:'300',height:'300'}); Automated Trader's Editor, William Essex, has been pacing the floor of IDX all day today. Now read this
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SIFMA: First Coverage 2.0 Released
FREE ARTICLEFollowing $9M Series B Financing, First Coverage unveils host of new features. read this
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SIFMA: Merrill Lynch and Townsend Analytics to Offer Fully Integrated Electronic Trading and Prime Brokerage Platform for Hedge Fund Clients
FREE ARTICLETownsend’s RealTick execution management system (EMS) to provide seamless access between ML Execution Services and ML Prime Brokerage to buy-side clients read this
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This Issue's Round-up of AT's Proprietary Alphability Metrics
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSAutomated Trader's proprietary tradability metrics are environmental statistics intended to assist those building trading models/systems in determining which markets and timeframes are most favourably responsive to which generic types of model. read this
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Marketcetera gets $4M to bring open source to automated trading
STILL EDITINGApril 8th 2008 - Marketcetera, maker of an open source platform for automated trading, has raised $4 million in a first round of venture funding. read this
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Teak Technologies Raises 10GE Performance Bar to Unmatched Level
STILL EDITINGMarch 28th 2008 - Focused Squarely at Building Switching Solutions to Accelerate Data Center Applications, Teak's AZ-10GE Technology Enables 10GE Links to Operate at Line Rate Without Packet Loss Across All Traffic Loads Including Those With Random Arriva read this
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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
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A Singular Vision
REGISTERED VIEWERSIts 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. read this
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This Issue's Round-up of AT's Proprietary Alphability Metrics
REGISTERED VIEWERSTrend and Reversal Alphability data for stock index and bond futures and top/bottom five Dow stocks. read this
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Fixnetix extends its market connectivity and data services to Winterflood Securities
FREE ARTICLEMarch 3rd 2008 - Fixnetix has announced that it has extended the level of market connectivity and data services to Winterflood Securities. Currently Winterflood's direct market access trading service is connected to the LSE via the Fixnetix low latency an read this
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Fixnetix to deliver sub millisecond Chi-X data and trading connectivity
FREE ARTICLEJanuary 16th 2008 - Fixnetix has signed an agreement with Chi-X Europe to deliver market data and trading connectivity. Fixnetix has connected to the Chi-X matching engine with a round trip latency as low as 400 microseconds in order to provide the ultim read this
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Neonet Expands its Offering with the Australian Securities Exchange
FREE ARTICLEJanuary 14th 2008 - NeoNet has announced its trading and brokerage access to the Australian Securities Exchange, thereby further expanding its global offering with trading on a new continent. read this
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Survival of the Fastest
FREE ARTICLEIn historical terms,the speed and movement of sensitive data can clearly be seen to have delivered execution advantages. Looking back nearly 200 years, Nathan Rothschild proved the benefit of having the quickest communications system in Europe in 1815 by read this
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The Need for Speed
FREE ARTICLEHow have we arrived in a world where every millisecond counts? The following comment may provide some insight: "The trading world is not a generous one. The first person to the market and execute doesn’t leave behind opportunities. Because speed determine read this
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In MiFID we Trust
REGISTERED VIEWERSThis issue of AT coincides with another attempt by Europe to become a little bit more like America. No, not Tony Blair’s hopes of being elected President of Europe just in time to see Bill and Hillary move back into the White House. Rather, that slightly read this
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First-mover Advantage?
REGISTERED VIEWERSAlready offering cheaper, quicker pricing on French, German, Dutch and UK equities, Chi-X is the first tangible evidence of the challenge to Europe’s stock exchanges unleashed by MiFID. Director Peter Randall talks to AT about the forces driving liquidity read this
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The Smart Money
REGISTERED VIEWERSAs MiFID opens the door to competition between equity trading venues in Europe, Chris Hall looks at how algorithmic trading will adapt to the new era of fragmented liquidity. read this
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Get a Grid!
REGISTERED VIEWERSIn the Q3 issue’s Technology Forum, our panel of experts agreed that grid computing had not yet been fully harnessed to support automated trading. So Automated Trader asked Mike Stoltz, VP, Architecture and Strategy, Financial Services at Gemstone Systems read this
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Tervela Releases Hardware Accelerated Messaging Platform for Extreme Financial Data Volumes
FREE ARTICLESeptember 18th, 2007—Tervela has announced a hardware accelerated messaging platform that gives the global banking industry the capacity to outpace the explosion of volume and volatility spurred by increasing levels of automation, regulation, and the emer read this
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A Global Round Trip
REGISTERED VIEWERSExchanges around the world are investing in new technology and services to attract a greater share of algorithmic and automated trading volumes. Chris Hall takes a whirlwind tour of the exchanges that are pulling out the stops to bring much-needed source read this
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Pennies from Heaven?
REGISTERED VIEWERSAs the SEC’s six-month penny pilot scheme draws to a close in the US options market, Chris Hall reports on the initial impact on different market segments and asks whether decimalisation will open up the market for higher levels of automated and algorit read this
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The L Word
REGISTERED VIEWERSIt is widely considered as critical to the performance of an algorithm, but what do we actually mean by latency? Dr Usman Malik, of algorithmic trading specialists P.E. Lynch LLP, explains the main sources of latency and suggests some practical steps for read this
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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
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Algorithmic Traders & Their Impact on the Derivatives World
REGISTERED VIEWERSHaving revolutionised the equity markets, algorithmic trading is already reshaping the derivatives sector. Neal Brady, Director of Products and Services Technology, CME, looks at the technology and infrastructure changes that are fast attracting algorithm read this
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THOMSON FINANCIAL SIGNS WITH BT FOR RADIANZ ULTRA ACCESS
FREE ARTICLEJune 19, 2007 – Thomson Financial, today announced an agreement with BT to provide Radianz Ultra Access, a new high speed service as part of the low latency Thomson Data Feed (TDF). With the addition of Radianz Ultra Access, Thomson Financial clients wil read this
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NEONET EXPANDS ITS ASIAN OFFERING WITH THE HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE STOCK
FREE ARTICLEJune 19, 2007 - NeoNet today announced trading and brokerage access to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Singapore Stock Exchange, thereby further expanding its global round-the-clock execution services. read this
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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
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Liquidity sensing and smart order routing
FREE ARTICLERegulation in both the US and Europe is having a significant impact on smart order routing in relation to best execution and venue selection. An important part of the routing process revolves around the sensing of hidden liquidity. read this
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Latency: The Hands-on Approach
FREE ARTICLEObviously here at AT we get a lot of press releases along the lines of “XXX announces the launch of latency busting YYY data feed/network/event processing engine that can process 10 billion messages/data points per nanosecond”. read this
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Empirical execution: Aspect Capital
FREE ARTICLEAspect Capital has a long pedigree as a systematic money manager. As such, it has been well placed to make a logical progression to automated and algorithmic trading. AT talks to Rob Wakefield, Aspect’s chief operating officer, about the firm’s recent act read this
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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
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NeoNet Links Up to Asia - Trading Platform News
FREE ARTICLEMar 12 2007 - NeoNet has announced trading and brokerage access to the Japanese markets including the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Securities Exchange and Jasdaq Securities Exchange read this
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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
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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