FlexAdvantage Blog

23
Jun

Liquidity and Fixed Income Trading — Trends to Keep in Mind (Part 1)

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US Treasuries By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director While media headlines have obsessed over a lack of liquidity in corporate bonds, some market experts appear to be more nervous about U.S. Treasuries, which is the largest and most liquid asset class in fixed income. Electronic trading has grown in U.S. Treasury bonds just as it has ...
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15
Jun

ETF Trading and Order Management

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With an eye on new revenue opportunities, sell-side firms are launching trading desks for exchange traded funds, a global market that has close to $3 trillion in assets under management. Investors have been pouring money into ETFs, as they offer low fees, exchange trading and exposure to different countries, regions and asset classes.  While sell-side ...
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7
Jun

Advanced Trading Analytics: A Look at TradeMap Execution Strategy Designer

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When a buy-side trader turns on the execution management system in the morning, the blotter could have a large number of orders clamoring for attention.  Determining a path for each order can be time consuming. Each order has different characteristics and can be traded in different ways. Now traders can visually design strategies in an …

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12
May

Spoofing and the Flash Crash – Six Things You Need to Know

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By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director Charges against a UK futures trader accused of manipulating the U.S. futures markets has ignited debate on whether “spoofing”  was a contributing factor in the 2010 Flash Crash in U.S. stocks. In the entertainment field, you often watch a spoof on Saturday Night Live, but the consequences are usually innocuous. ...
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5
May

New Excel Plugin Available for FlexEdge’s Predictive Analytics Solution

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Do You Use Microsoft Excel to Assist With Your Trading Analytics? Microsoft Excel remains one of the most popular tools for quantitative analysis by virtue of its simplicity and accessibility. And since many of our clients use Excel to produce analytics, it was only natural that we would offer an easier way for our data ...
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20
Apr

FX Trading – Seven Trends the Buy-Side Needs to Consider

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By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director It’s hard to escape the headlines about FX trading lately. Words such as rigging, currency manipulation, chat rooms and billion dollar fines are grabbing attention and alarming many buy-side customers. It's an environment that could give pause to investors, so it's interesting to note that, in spite of these transgressions, the ...
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23
Mar

Smart Order Routing (SOR)

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From Revolution to Evolution in the Search for Liquidity and Alpha Smart Order Routing (SOR) has ebbed and flowed as a topic of interest in the financial industry.  Because the functionality has become commonplace in the market, its presence in institutional trading platforms has nearly become an afterthought.  But its necessity is without doubt, especially ...
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13
Mar

Quants, Compliance and the Buy-Side OMS

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OMS Challenges for the Buy-Side As hedge funds turn to a more active, quant-style of trading, they often need to run pre-trade compliance checks on hundreds if not thousands of names within seconds. But what happens if an OMS is not built to keep up with the rapid pace of executions and compliance checks?  There’s ...
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13
Oct

Does Using Predictive Analytics in Trading Really Increase Your Alpha?

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Top strategy traders know, “If I can get better predictions of intraday trading volume, my algorithms will perform better!” Indeed how can a trader get better than an educated guess at trading volumes during the day or overnight? FlexEdge That’s what a razor-sharp predictive analytics platform like FlexTrade’sFlexEdge provides: better forecasting of intra-day volume and ...
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