High-frequency trading (HFT)
CEP Puts FX on the Fast Track
Complex-event processing is extending its reach into new asset classes as the underlying technology continues to mature. But as Stewart Eisenhart reports, it still has its pitfalls, especially when it comes to the FX realm.
Kiss Your Naked Access Goodbye
Listening to the talking heads on television, it seems as if the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) index last Thursday means the world is coming to an end. No, it's not. The national market structure has rules and procedures in place…
Surveillance's Painful Proposition
Last week at during its board of governors meeting, the Security Traders Association (STA)-a U.S.-based advocacy organization for securities traders-responded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) concept release on market structure.
Industry: HFT Brings Higher Costs to Futures Markets
NEW YORK-Direct market access (DMA) is changing how technology providers and trading venues are working with futures commission merchants (FCMs) in conducting high-frequency trading (HFT) and managing its risks, according to members of the futures…
TSE Arrowhead Targets Algo Flow
The operators of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) began this year with the deployment of a next-generation equities matching engine, Arrowhead, for equities trading. DWT European reporter Tanzeel Akhtar speaks with Yoshinori Suzuki, senior executive…
Naked Exposure: Getting the Full Picture
NEW YORK-While the industry waits for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review all of the responses it received during the 60-day comment period on proposed changes to sponsored unfiltered, or "naked," access to exchanges, brokers are…
Trading Firms Zero in on Nanoseconds
BARCELONA-The time it takes a beam of light to travel approximately 30 centimeters in a vacuum-one billionth of a second-will be the new performance benchmark for electronic traders, according to industry insiders who participated in a panel discussion…
AlgoEngineering Spins Off Tech Startup
NEW YORK-Low-latency execution provider AlgoEngineering recently launched a new venture, dubbed Algo Technologies, which will turn the vendor's proprietary infrastructure into products and services for third parties.
Lime Branches Out
The growth in high-frequency trading (HFT) is about to bear fruit for New York-based agency broker Lime Brokerage as HFT firms continue to sprout up across the industry.
Tying Down the Cloud
Maybe it's me, but in all the discussion around the adoption of cloud computing, one topic has seemed to escape comment: How does cloud computing reconcile itself with the physical requirements of the trading world?