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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
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
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
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
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
Strategies: Building a Better Bear Trap
FREE ARTICLE One of the most critical elements in algorithmic trading lies in accurately modelling trading costs, yet this still remains a rather inexact science. While certain cost elements are relatively stable and/or easy to predict, others are not. As a result, mo 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
AT Round Table: Pre-trade analytics - expectations and reality
FREE ARTICLE Pre-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
Strategies: Waiting for the Iceberg
FREE ARTICLE Algorithmic trading has radically changed trading patterns in capital markets. Transaction volumes have increased and in the equities markets in particular, individual transaction sizes have plummeted. Debbie Williams, Group Vice President of the Capital read this
My Machine: The AT Interview - Algo Reality
FREE ARTICLE Investment management firm T. Rowe Price, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, has more than USD300bn under management. The company has a global presence and in common with other major asset managers uses execution algorithms in its various locations. AT read this
Hedge Funds and Multi Asset Algorithmic Trading - Perfect Partners?
FREE ARTICLE The 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
Hedge Fund Back Offices - Sinking or Swimming in the Algo Flood?
FREE ARTICLE Hedge funds have been a major factor in the growth of algorithmic trading, but how are they and their prime brokers responding to the impact that algorithmic and automated trading have had on the back office? read this
Market data connectivity
FREE ARTICLE With: - David Hann, general manager for EMEA at Interactive Data Real-Time Services - Gregory Smith, CEO at Cicada Corporation - Mark Akass, CTO at BT Radianz - Alasdair Moore, global head of sales at Fixnetix - Guy Tagliavia, president and CEO at Infody 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
Liquidity sensing and smart order routing
FREE ARTICLE Regulation 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
αlphability
FREE ARTICLE This issue of Automated Trader marks the launch of a new set of tradability statistics called Alphability. Andy Webb outlines some examples of their construction and their application as tools to expedite the development of automated and algorithmic tradi 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
Using Order Book Data to Improve Automated Model Performance
FREE ARTICLE Automated traders now have access to unprecedented levels of market data. Thom Hartle, Director of Marketing, CQG, conducts a theoretical comparison between two trading systems to explore how order book data can be leveraged for optimal trade performance 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
Catch Me if You Can
FREE ARTICLE Automated traders whose strategies depend on speed are turning to ‘true’ direct market access to avoid the latency burden of futures clearers’ pre-trade risk management tools. Chris Hall looks at clearers’ efforts to monitor trading risks without imposin 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
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
Baptism by Fire
FREE ARTICLE Extreme volatility in the equity markets made August a testing month for both users of execution algorithms and automated trading strategies. Leading players explain the lessons for the future to Chris Hall. 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