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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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This Issue's Round-up of AT's Proprietary Alphability Metrics
FREE ARTICLE Trend and Reversal Alphability data for stock index and bond futures and top/bottom five Dow stocks. 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
Optimising Market Data for Buy-Side Automated Trading
FREE ARTICLE The next generation of buy-side trading models is driving new requirements for market data. Buy-side firms use market data in a variety of different ways and for different purposes, but how – asks Valerie Bannert-Thurner, Managing Director of Skyler Techn read this
Small Cap, Big Challenge
FREE ARTICLE Small and mid cap trade execution is a tough nut to crack. Long ‘dry’ periods, with occasional unexpected patches of liquidity, call for a very different execution style from large caps. Don White, Head of US Equity Product Development at Bloomberg Tradeb read this
Mr Immediate
FREE ARTICLE Steve Radez, CEO of Essex Radez, has a strong claim to be the world’s first automated trader. Together with Essex Radez’s CTO, John Muelhausen, he explains how technology and automation have been constant themes in a three-decade trading career. read this
MiFID Descends across Europe
FREE ARTICLE Six months after its launch, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has begun to stimulate greater competition between trade execution venues, but the fragmentation of liquidity and trade reporting has also caused confusion among buy-side read this
This Issue's Round-up of AT's Proprietary Alphability Metrics
FREE ARTICLE Automated Trader's proprietary tradability metrics are environmental statistics intended to assist those building trading models/systems in determining which markets and timeframes are most favourably responsive to which generic types of model. read this
Open Source for Auto/Algo?
FREE ARTICLE Open source software has made huge strides in terms of credibility in recent years. So is now the time to consider it for auto/algo trading? Graham Miller, CEO of Marketcetera, definitely thinks so. read this
It’s decision time
FREE ARTICLE But is that the whole of the problem, that the decision-making process itself adds latency to data? Or are data volumes and the proliferation of trading venues outstripping data vendors’ capacity to deliver in real-enough time? William Essex investi read this
Automated Trader’s proprietary tradability metrics
FREE ARTICLE Automated Trader’s proprietary tradability metrics are environmental statistics intended to assist those building trading models/systems in determining which markets and timeframes are most favourably responsive to which generic types of model. 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
Rapid Model Deployment (RMD): The new race for speed in systematic ﬁnance
FREE ARTICLE These days, speed is of the essence in more than just order routing. Phil Perkins, Ben Van Vliet and Carl Ververs of the Institute for Market Technology explain how a rigorous process for rapid trading model development is becoming an absolute necessity. read this
alphability
FREE ARTICLE Automated Trader’s proprietary tradability metrics are environmental statistics intended to assist those building trading models/systems in determining which markets and timeframes are most favourably responsive to which generic types of model. read this