By Ivy Schmerken The pandemic has accelerated the trend toward adopting cloud-based market data services and computationally intensive risk analytics, according to analysts on recent capital markets webinars. Despite past concerns over latency and security with the public cloud, many banks and asset managers are using cloud-based market data services and data analytics for historical …
FlexTrade today announced the integration of Kensho Technologies pre-trade analytics solution into the FlexTRADER EMS, which provides a detailed, real-time event feed to assist a trader’s decision-making process when executing a trade.
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 buying …
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 …
GREAT NECK, NY, November 10, 2014 – FlexTrade Systems, Inc., a leader in multi-asset, algorithmic trading systems, today announced its FlexTRADER algorithmic trading platform has grabbed the top spot in the Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service category of this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards, which was held at The May Fair Hotel in London on …
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 of which depend upon the volume that will trade while the order is active. Traditionally, algorithms used historical averages when …
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