As traders look for the fastest way to trade, one connectivity provider may have an answer: Sending data and trade orders via microwaves. So, what happens when it rains?
With profits down due to lower volumes and declining volatility in U.S. stocks, high-frequency traders face growing pressure to find new markets and innovate when speed is not enough.
Industry participants question whether identifying dark pools in real-time trade reports will give too much information to high-frequency traders and gamers.
Buy side firms need sophisticated tools to navigate the market structure as well as analytics and connectivity to alternative trading systems, but cost pressures are an obstacle to upgrading their OMS-EMS platforms, according to Greenwich Associates' study.
Buy side firms need sophisticated tools to navigate the market structure as well as analytics and connectivity to alternative trading systems, but cost pressures are an obstacle to upgrading their OMS-EMS platforms, according to Greenwich Associates' study.
Advanced Trading takes you on an exclusive tour of Abel Noser’s New York trading floor, where the agency broker known for transaction cost analysis, is customizing algorithms for the buy side, while growing its fixed income trading and transitions business.
Controversy Breeds Change May 17, 2010With Goldman Sachs in the hot seat and regulators intensifying the push for financial reform, it's only a matter of time before big changes hit the Street.
A New FIX for Algo Trading May 05, 2010Buy-side firms, broker-dealers and vendors are getting behind a new Financial Information eXchange protocol for deploying algorithms faster and more cost effectively.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Gives Traders A BreakApril 06, 2010J.P. Morgan Asset Management has built an Execution Optimizer, or EO, that will further automate the trade workflow by utilizing TCA and portfolio manager profiling to generate and execute on strategies.
