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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Open Platform
FREE ARTICLE When a US options prop shop built a new fast-track strategy development platform, its business model changed overnight. Tom Heffernan, Director, Global Marketing, Last Atlantis Capital Management, explains why the alternative asset manager encourages emer 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
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
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
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
Algo transitions
FREE ARTICLE Portfolio transitions are very different from conventional asset management, but the judicious use of algorithms can still be hugely beneficial. Chris Jackson, Director, Execution Sales, Merrill Lynch International explains the nuances of using algorithms read this