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AT Round Table: Multi Asset Algo
FREE ARTICLE Multi asset execution algorithms have been touted as the next “big thing”. AT asked four major sellside providers for their viewpoint. With: - Tim Wildenberg, Head of Direct Execution Services Europe, UBS - Jeff Wecker, CEO of Townsend Analytics, read this
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
Exchange Views: LSE Multi Asset Futureproofing
FREE ARTICLE Technology 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
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
Peek Ahead: A Misleading Glimpse of the Future
FREE ARTICLE “AT pays a visit to a seriously secretive organisation and sees a human free vision of the automated trading future. Or possibly not…” read this
Feature: Is Fixed Income Ready to Hit Algo Street?
FREE ARTICLE Fixed income has been long regarded as the Cinderella of algorithmic trading – while equities and then FX would enjoy the ball, fixed income would be left behind. However, while we may still be a long way from a glass slipper scenario, there are now glimm read this
Leader: The Price of Principal
FREE ARTICLE Certainty comes at a premium in financial markets and especially where a capital commitment is required. But just how big should that premium be for principal quotes and what are the alternatives? Dr Paul Lynch managing partner of algorithmic tradin read this
Strategies: Optimisation Algorithms for Automated Trading
FREE ARTICLE Automation 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 ARTICLE Investec 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
Exchange Views: ASX - Ramping Up For Algo
FREE ARTICLE In common with other exchanges around the globe, the ASX has seen algorithmic and automated trading fundamentally change the nature of its order flows. AT talks to David Stocken, Senior Product Manager, Equity Products at the ASX about how the exchange read this
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
AT Round Table: Algorithmic Trading - Creating real value for the buyside
FREE ARTICLE As 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
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
Feature: Jack Schwager - Making the grade
FREE ARTICLE The number of hedge funds using automated and algorithmic trading has risen exponentially in recent years. That has made it hard for such funds to stand out from each other when pitching to allocators. One such allocator is Jack Schwager, who in ad read this
Tech Forum: Data - The Exploding Supernova
FREE ARTICLE With: - Mark Palmer, general manager and vice president of Apama Products, a division of Progress Software - Dr John Bates, founder and vice president of Apama Products, a division of Progress Software - John Coulter, vice president of marketing and read this
Feature: Algo in Asia - Slow Burn or Damp Squib?
FREE ARTICLE While adoption of algorithmic trading in Asia is not as advanced as in Europe or the US, there are some indications of intent already emerging. For instance, several major broker dealers have started relocating experienced advanced order execution pe read this
Peek Ahead: DIY Disaster
FREE ARTICLE How one fund house's attempt to build its own algos proved a rocky road to reality. read this
Leader: The buyside trader - empowered or extinct?
FREE ARTICLE The introduction of Reg NMS next year will further compound other changes, such as decimalisation, that have transformed the equity market in recent years. Joe Wald, CEO of EdgeTrade Inc., explains how traders need to evolve and respond to meet this read this