Speed of Trading Leaves Some Traders Behind

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Visitor Blogs

Speed of Trading Leaves Some Traders Behind
The speed of trading is getting so fast that trading in microseconds is expected to soon become a reality. The trend promises to benefit some traders at the expense of others.
With algorithmic traders demanding faster turnaround times, exchanges and ECNs are beefing up their trade processing capacity. Turnarounds under [...]

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Deluged by data – David Bannister: Banking Technology

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Visitor Blogs

Coping with the rapidly increasing amount of data pouring into their systems is becoming a big headache for trading firms. There’s more of it, it’s happening more often, it’s expensive, and it’s becoming unmanageable: financial data – pricing, reference, static, validated and counterparty data.
Globally, the cost of this data was $23.0 billion in 2007 and [...]

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New Latency Measurement Tools From Reuters, TS-Associates

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Visitor Blogs

New Latency Measurement Tools From Reuters, TS-Associates
A pair of products designed to measure and monitor latency–a growing area of technology development amid ever-growing market data volumes–made their debut this week.
Reuters, in conjunction with vendor partners Endace and Trading Metrics, on Monday introduced a system that measures the network delay between the source of market data [...]

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Dow Jones and RavenPack Collaborate to Deliver Dow Jones News Analytics with API for Customers’ Proprietary Trading Systems

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Visitor Blogs

Dow Jones and RavenPack Collaborate to Deliver Dow Jones News Analytics with API for Customers’ Proprietary Trading Systems
Produced in partnership with RavenPack, a leader in computational linguistics, Dow Jones News Analytics provides a unique combination of Dow Jones real-time news and RavenPack’s sentiment data. Now, firms can integrate this data into their automated trading systems [...]

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New Report Asks: “Complying with MiFID or Reg NMS – Should Firms Build or Buy Solutions?”

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Visitor Blogs

Broker-dealers are preparing for upcoming surge in market data. Market data cost reduction is a key priority. Banks are looking to reduce cost burden by selling their own market data. Focus is moving away [...]

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