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Leader: Fast Forward into the Multi Asset Future?
FREE ARTICLE A 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 ARTICLE DnB 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 ARTICLE The 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 ARTICLE Patsystems 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 ARTICLE One 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 ARTICLE Automation, 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
Spotlight: RTD Tango - Cutting to the Chase
FREE ARTICLE Tools 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
Case Study: ABP - à la carte algo
FREE ARTICLE With 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
Technology Workshop: Java - Your High-Frequency Friend
FREE ARTICLE An 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
FPGA's - Parallel Perfection?
FREE ARTICLE FPGAs (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 ARTICLE Dmitry 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
High frequency data analysis
FREE ARTICLE As 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 ARTICLE Given 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 ARTICLE The 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
Communicating Ltd: The Trader Stripped Bare
FREE ARTICLE Communicating 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
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
Application Latency
FREE ARTICLE As 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
Fast Forward for Algorithmic Trading
FREE ARTICLE Algorithmic 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
FREE ARTICLE Michael 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
FREE ARTICLE How 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
FREE ARTICLE To 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
New Horizons for Complex Event Processing
FREE ARTICLE Daniel Chait, Managing Director, Lab49, asserts that CEP has a wide range of applications beyond algo/auto trading. read this
Buy Side Flocks to FX
FREE ARTICLE Auto 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?
FREE ARTICLE Hardware 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
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
Do Black Swans Swim in Dark Pools?
FREE ARTICLE The continued rise of dark liquidity and the development of more sophisticated execution algorithms could increase regulatory obligations on brokers and/or exchanges, according to Mary Lou Von Kaenel, Managing Director, Management Consulting, Jordan & J read this
Data Distribution Challenges for Next Generation Applications
FREE ARTICLE Angelo Corsaro, Product Marketing Manager, PrismTech Corp., outlines the advantages of a new middleware – data distribution service (DDS) – over messaging technologies currently deployed to support automated and algorithmic trading. read this
Ready for Take-off?
FREE ARTICLE Are today’s order and execution management systems capable of guiding buy-side dealers through an increasingly complex trading environment or will new hybrid solutions emerge? AT asks leading providers to share their views. read this