FlexTrade Insights

  • Intraday Volatility in the COVID Era: Why it Matters

    Intraday volatility is a substantially more important metric in this new regime. As the global health and economic situation evolves, more sudden shifts in overall volatility are likely, and historic volatility metrics will be slow to respond to such events.

    By FlexTrade Insights May 26, 2020 Insights

  • Is Remote Work Leading to a Paradigm Shift on the Trading Desk?

    Given the market’s resiliency and traders working from home during the COVID-19-fueled volatility, some market observers have questioned the centralized trading desk mentality that has been pervasive on Wall Street.

    By FlexTrade Insights May 19, 2020 Insights

  • Options Traders Adapt to Electronic Markets in Pandemic

    Options trading volumes and volatility skyrocketed in March as concerns over the COVID-19 virus spread across markets. In this Q&A, FlexTrade’s Vice President Equity Derivatives Rob Brogan examines the shift to electronic trading, the need for real-time tools for calculating the Greeks, and how FlexTrade supports the demand for ‘volatility trading’ in a fast-moving market.

    By FlexTrade Insights April 29, 2020 Insights

  • In Volatile Markets, Trading Technology Matters

    At times like these, two major factors come into play:  first, your trading technology’s ability to process and manage the data coming into the platform, and secondly, how well-established automation is within the firm. 

    By FlexTrade Insights March 23, 2020 Insights

  • Best practices in algo wheel design and implementation

    Algo wheels are the application to trading of the idea of randomised controlled trials, which originally comes from the natural sciences. When you have some new innovation in the healthcare space, for example, you have to make sure
    that a new treatment actually works and improves outcomes for patients.

    By FlexTrade Insights February 19, 2020 News