Citi Offers Electronic Executions, Algorithms for Options

The expansion of equity markets electronic trading techniques to the listed derivatives markets is hitting its stride, with Citi this month announcing that it plans to offer buy-side clients access to its options trading platform. The move follows expansion this year into facilitation of client electronic trading of listed derivatives by several big investment banks.

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20 Nov 2009
 
CA Cheuvreux Brings Dark Pool Connections to 20 with 5 New Additions

French brokerage Credit Agricole Cheuvreux has added five new European dark pools to the population of execution venues available to its clients, bringing the total number of dark pools supported by its routing systems. The firm plans to make access available by the end of the month to its direct market access (DMA) clients via its CrossFire dark liquidity seeking algorithm.

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18 Nov 2009
 
 
Electronic Trading Special Report: Machine Readable News and Algorithmic Trading

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It may have been a long time coming, but it appears that machine-readable news’ time has come. With today’s emphasis on fast, automated and event-driven markets, the ability to tap events and apply them to computer-based models seems obvious. But until relatively recently, the idea of electronically capturing news–or text-based information–for use in automated processes has been the stuff of science fiction.

Today, machine-readable news is used in a range of supporting roles in trading. Aside from generating trading signals for high frequency traders and other alpha- seekers, it can be used to build sentiment measurement applications, stock screening applications and back-testing systems for trading algorithms. It can be used in support of market surveillance systems. And with more of the major newswire organizations getting in on the act, its use seems set to increase.

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26 Oct 2009
 
 
 
Kairos Asset Management Taps StreamBase For Algo Trading

Brazilian hedge fund Kairos Asset Management has implemented StreamBase Systems’ complex event processing (CEP) software as the basis of its new algorithmic trading system and is already trading certain strategies for equities, foreign exchange and local futures markets. Further strategies are due to be migrated from its existing system, which uses Microsoft Excel spreadsheets linked to SunGard/GL Trade’s Automate functionality.

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19 Oct 2009
 
 
 
ITG Introduces the Raider Algorithm in Europe FREE - A-Team Wire

12 Oct 2009
 
Instinet Introduces BLX Dark Pool FREE - A-Team Wire

05 Oct 2009
 
 
Portware Announces Support for FIXatdl Protocol FREE - A-Team Wire

29 Sep 2009
 
J.P. Morgan Adds Algo, Options to MorganDirect FX Trading Portal

J.P. Morgan is continuing to expand its electronic trading efforts with two functionality upgrades to MorganDirect, its proprietary foreign exchange and rates trading platform. News of the enhancements comes as J.P. Morgan extends the use of algorithmic trading and related techniques across a broad array of asset classes.

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28 Sep 2009
 
 
 
Neonet Launches Dark Algorithm FREE - A-Team Wire

23 Sep 2009
 
GigaSpaces and MPI Europe Form Strategic Partnership FREE - A-Team Wire

23 Sep 2009
 

 

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