Blogs

19
Jan

Top Sell-Side Trends for 2023

What are the top market structure issues for sell-side firms in 2023? With the new year off to a fast start, brokerage firms are facing a variety of evolving issues that could impact their trading businesses. On the horizon are proposed regulations to reform U.S. equity trading, increased best execution obligations, innovations in ATSs, 24-hour trading, and shortening the settlement cycle to T+1.

9
May

FlexTrade Among First Movers to Offer Liquidnet’s New Suite of Global Algorithms

The new algorithms are available immediately within FlexTrade’s multi-asset solutions London, UK, May 9th 2022 – FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, announced the integration, certification, and availability of Liquidnet’s new updated global algorithms package for use within FlexTrade’s suite of buy-side EMS solutions. The latest version of …

13
Dec

FlexTrade Signs the FX Global Code of Conduct

As a provider of technology to the FX market, our signing of the Code reflects our commitment to support the industry’s move to become increasingly open, fair, and compliant with global standards.

19
May

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.

23
Mar

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. 

19
Aug

Algo Wheels Spinning into Futures

Algo wheels have become a popular technology in equities trading, but now there are signs that algo wheels are expanding beyond equities into multiple asset classes such as futures.

11
Jul

Algo Development 2.0 Looks to Open Source, Cloud & Big Data

In the next five to 10 years, don’t be shocked if hedge funds begin to outsource their algorithms to a team of quants coding in Python using the cloud and open source tools.

28
Feb

Artificial Intelligence Gains Momentum: From Machine Learning to Deep Learning

Among the key benefits of artificial intelligence is that it can analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data more quickly than humans do, which can boost productivity. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken examines.

6
Jul

Riding the Wave: Speed, Algos and Consolidation

  By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director A wave of consolidation has hit high-speed trading firms and brokers in the past few months, and many are blaming low volatility and weak trading volumes in the face of rising compliance and market data costs. Starting with electronic market-maker Virtu’s acquisition of rival KCG in April, Two Sigma Securities …

16
May

Options Market Structure: Fragmented Reality

Some experts are debating whether the complexity of the listed U.S. options market structure is hurting liquidity providers and driving some market makers out of the business. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken investigates.

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