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Feature: Colocation - A Game Worth the Candle?
FREE ARTICLE Exchanges, networks and service providers are turning to the laws of physics in the race to reduce latency and win customers. But do colocation and proximity trading really offer substantial benefits worthy of the investment, or is it mainly a triu read this
Empirical execution: Aspect Capital
FREE ARTICLE Aspect 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
Latency: The Hands-on Approach
FREE ARTICLE Obviously 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
Backtesting: Best practice principles for beating the market
FREE ARTICLE In 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
The L Word
FREE ARTICLE It 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
Pennies from Heaven?
FREE ARTICLE As 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
A Global Round Trip
FREE ARTICLE Exchanges 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
Get a Grid!
FREE ARTICLE In 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
The Smart Money
FREE ARTICLE As 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
First-mover Advantage?
FREE ARTICLE Already 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
In MiFID we Trust
FREE ARTICLE This 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
The Need for Speed
FREE ARTICLE How 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
Survival of the Fastest
FREE ARTICLE In 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
A Singular Vision
FREE ARTICLE Its 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
Cream Rising
FREE ARTICLE BlackCat 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
A basket of abstractions
FREE ARTICLE First 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
Machine versus Man versus Machine?
FREE ARTICLE 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&rdq read this
Algorithmic Trading: What do I really need to do?
FREE ARTICLE Some 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
Short Selling and Risky Margin
FREE ARTICLE Since 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