Futures
ICE Licenses Eris Methodology for 2015 Product Development
Pair target margin benefits with multi-year deal
OptionsCity's CEO Discusses Optionshop Acquisition
Clients will see new products/functionality over next 6-12 months
OneChicago Introduces Weekly Futures
The equity finance exchange today announced it will offer a new suite of products called OCX.Weekly beginning on Friday, June 20. The exchange will continue to list weekly futures each subsequent Friday.
Quincy Extends Microwave Data Service to Europe
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency microwave connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data service into Europe, to provide automated trading firms in London and Frankfurt with low-latency futures market data from…
Simulation Tools Key as Managed Futures Funds, CTAs Optimize Execution
A potent mixture of in-house, futures commission merchant, and boutique brokerage-provided algorithms now play a part in commodity trading advisors’ and managed futures funds’ trading activities. Tim Bourgaize Murray examines why a new cadre of…
Eris Exchange Achieves Open Interest Milestone: What's Next?
The venue's chief operating officer, Michael Riddle, discusses why more of the same is in store. After all, why fix what isn't broken?
Saxo Bank Adds Futures Spread Trading for Mobile
The e-trading specialist says clients can now trade futures spreads across its platforms, including SaxoTrader smartphone and tablet apps, covering intra-market spreads as well as named calendar spreads on a range of gold, oil and commodities, rates,…
Bohemian Rhapsody: CIO Michal Sanak Leads Prague's RSJ with Smart Speed
RSJ, tucked on the left bank of the Vltava River in the Czech capital of Prague, has quietly become one of the world’s most active proprietary trading firms, despite its boutique size. As CIO and shareholder Michal Sanak tells Tim Bourgaize Murray, the…
Bloomberg Supplies Fixings Valuation for Tradition's Volatis
Volatis, the interdealer broker's newly-launched hybrid platform for negotiation and trading of realized volatility futures, will use daily fixing observations from Bloomberg.
New FIA Study Suggests Futures Volatility Not Influenced by HFT
Research conducted for the Futures Industry Association by Nicholas Bollen and Robert Whaley at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management suggests that recent trading in 15 futures contracts has not become more volatile, despite increased…
Quantifi Tapped for ICE Futures Price-Spread Calculator
The analytics provider has released a new tool for pricing credit index futures listed by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Futures U.S., backing increased demand for exchange-traded futures, which trade more cheaply than OTC derivatives under new global…
GFI Builds Out SEF, DCM Capacity with Violin Memory
Wholesale brokerage and electronic execution provider GFI will deploy Violin's solid-state Flash Memory Arrays for increased speed and capacity across all its trading platforms.
Trading Technologies, MexDer Link Via CME's Globex
Trading Technologies' X-Trader has linked with MexDer, a leading venue for Mexican benchmark derivatives, as activity in the Central American market steadily ramps up.
After Lsoc Implementation, Talk of Algo-Enabled Portability
The legally-segregated, operationally-comingled (Lsoc) paradigm is designed to bring greater protection to futures on a customer and ecosystem basis. Futures Commissions Merchants (FCMs) and clearinghouses are pondering a pair of technology issues as…
CFTC's O'Malia Says Tech Training Wheels Are Off
The only way to face the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's challenges is through robust surveillance automation and analytics. Technology is the bike—the commissioner says the regulator needs to learn to ride.
TT to Add X-Trader Access with Eris Exchange
Derivatives software provider Trading Technologies (TT) says it will offer connectivity to Eris Exchange's SwapBook, the futures exchange's electronic trading tool for interest rate swap (IRS) futures and inter-market spreads, via its X-Trader platform…