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Themis Trading: Improving VWAP Performance
This morning’s note is intended to give a cursory refresher course on how VWAP works, talk about how typically our industry has gone about trying to improve VWAP performance, and finally to tell you how …
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Journal of Trading: Predicting Intraday Trading Volume and Volume Percentages
This article discusses recent techniques and results in the area of forecasting intraday trading volume and intraday trading volume percentages. Why predict volume? A major reason is to improve the performance of trading algorithms, many …
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e-FOREX: Which, When and Why – Taking a More Informed Approach to Algorithmic FX Trading
What is it about FX algorithms? You wait millennia for somebody to automate the global foreign-exchange market, and then all of a sudden you get dozens of smart, intelligent, intuitive, even educative FX-algo solutions all …
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Markets Media: Institutions Face Options-Integration Challenge
The appetite for options trading among institutions is increasing as they seek to generate income, capture alpha from volatility, and hedge their equity portfolios. However, care must be exercised in integrating options trading into the …
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Markets Media: Multi-Asset Trading Systems A Must-Have
Buy-side traders are melding multiple asset classes together onto a single trading platform as asset classes become increasingly connected. Futures and FX trading capabilities are especially in-demand by trading teams…
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e-FOREX: Execution Algorithms – Where Innovation is Driving Demand in FX
Everything is back to normal in the FX market – but it’s a new normal. All around us, corporates are back to funding their cross-border operations; trading desks are back to taking orders and transacting; …
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Dhaka Stock Exchange: Announces Selection of Automation Project Partners
Dhaka Stock Exchange is pleased to announce that it has entered into agreements with NASDAQ OMX and FlexTrade Systems to renew its existing trading system with a next generation world leading trading platform. Dhaka Stock …
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Thomson Reuters: Launches Innovative Block Trading Solution
Thomson Reuters Launches Innovative Block Trading Solution to Meet Demand for Natural Block Liquidity in Fragmented U.S. Equities Markets. Thomson Reuters Block Connect to meet buy-side demand for anonymous electronic access to natural block liquidity …
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Markets Media: Best Multi-Asset EMS: FlexTrade Systems
During 2013, FlexTrade Systems redoubled its efforts to adapt its multi-asset EMS, FlexTRADER, to the new realities of cash and derivatives trading. FlexTrade and its customers are experiencing the impact of rapid transformation in the …
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Markets Media: FlexTrade Expects More Electronic Bond Trading
FlexTrade Systems and its customers are experiencing the impact of rapid transformation in the fixed income markets brought on by regulations and market dynamics. With market participants expecting more electronic trading in bonds and interest …
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ForexMagnates.com: A $6 Trillion/Day Industry? Rise of the Non-Dealers in FX
Sifting through the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Triennial FX Survey, arguably the most important trend taking place is the growth of non-dealer bank participation. Within the report, the survey polls participant dealers in regards …
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Traders Magazine: Multi-Asset Masters – September 2013 Issue
For Lynn Challenger, the last seven years have been one big project: transforming a farflung order processing operation into a centralized, multi-asset trading hub where the traders take responsibility for each and every order. Mellon …