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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
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
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
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
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
Exchange Views: ISE - Automation Inspiration
FREE ARTICLE In April of this year, the International Securities Exchange announced that it would be entering the equities market through the launch of the ISE Stock Exchange. AT talks to David Krell, President and Chief Executive Officer of the ISE about this initiat 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
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
Distributed automation
FREE ARTICLE While automated trading is now relatively commonplace, Rickey Cheung has been one of a few to take the process a step further. In addition to his own proprietary trading, he also redistributes trading signals to automated trading clients around the world. 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
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
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
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
All the News that’s Fit to Trade
FREE ARTICLE News has been moving financial markets since before Julius Reuter released his first pigeon. Chris Hall asks whether machine-readable news will give traders an edge. 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
Finding the Correct Path Through Market Turbulence
FREE ARTICLE Recent months have seen financial markets experience more turbulence than perhaps ever before. Market corrections, war in the Middle East, sub-prime crisis, bulls and bears not sure which they are, and more recently the return of the 'big style' rogue tra read this
Machine Learning + Regime Switching = Profitability?
FREE ARTICLE The concept of regimes – such as bull and bear markets – is elemental to financial markets. The desire to predict regime switches, commonly known as turning points, is similarly elemental. Ernest Chan, CEO of E. P. Chan & Associates, examines a possible t read this
How do you differentiate your electronic execution services?
FREE ARTICLE While the recent proliferation of electronic execution services has presented the buyside with an impressive degree of choice, it has simultaneously landed the sellside with several challenges. How do you make your services stand out from the crowd? What read this
The way we shouldn't have been
FREE ARTICLE Editor’s note: Peek Ahead is our venue for blue-sky thinking, challenging conventional wisdom and out-and-out disagreeing over key industry issues. If you would like to comment, or disagree, or send in some of your own blue-sky thinking, write t read this
Me and My Machine: The Automated Trader Interview
FREE ARTICLE Miles Kumaresan, Head of Quantitative Trading at TransMarket Group Ltd, talks to Automated Trader’s Editor, William Essex, about the development of the company’s High Frequency Quantitative Trading Group. read this
The Shock of the News
FREE ARTICLE Machines can read the news now, but can they be trusted to act on it? There’s been a lot of talk about machine-readable news since our Q1 2008 feature*, but does that go any further than adding bells, whistles and meta-tags to the text streaming acr read this
Mobiu
FREE ARTICLE One of the major headaches with institutional automated and systematic trading is ensuring security of intellectual property (IP). As our “Me and My Machine” interviewee, Miles Kumaresan, points out (on page 36), while it is possible to identi read this