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Progress Software Corporation, supplier of application infrastructure software has integrated the Progress Apama algorithmic trading platform with the FXall foreign exchange ECN Accelor. This connectivity will enable fast and easy access to the Accelor platform, the vendor says. The Apama algorithmic trading platform enables traders to create, test, deploy and manage customised algorithmic strategies. Clients who use the Apama platform now have a wider view of liquidity pools from a single screen and can rapidly develop and directly deploy high-frequency FX strategies that capitalise on proprietary trading techniques.

Progress News Release

Technorati Tags: Progress Apama, FXall, Accelor, foreign exchange, FX, algorithmic trading

Interactive Data’s PlusFeed, its low latency consolidated real-time digital datafeed, will provide data for US domestic equities, futures and commodities markets to support Financial Mechanics’ automated trading strategies.

Financial Mechanics, an emerging hedge fund manager located near San Francisco, utilises complex mathematical algorithms designed to identify securities trading opportunities. The company will launch its first fund this month.

PlusFeed will also deliver real-time spot and forward FX rates for currencies provided through Interactive Data’s GTIS Service; a service with global over-the-counter prices contributed by market players in the foreign exchange, precious metals, energy, money and fixed income markets. Financial Mechanics has also selected Interactive Data’s historical intraday tick and end-of-day data for back testing its trading strategies.

Interactive Data News Release

Technorati Tags: Financial Mechanics, Interactive Data, PlusFeed, GTIS, automated trading

Addressing the worldwide demand for proprietary trading algorithms among capital market firms, Truviso has released its Algorithmic Trading Solution, combining SQL-based continuous event processing, real-time as well as historical data analysis, and zero latency algorithmic decisioning on a single platform. With the Truviso Algorithmic Trading Solution, buy and sell side traders can now develop, test, execute and evaluate proprietary trading strategies in one algorithmic framework, the vendor says.

Truviso News Release

Technorati Tags: Truviso, algorithmic trading, proprietary trading strategies, complex event processing

Exchange feed provider Essex Radez has introduced the latest extension to its Clarity tick history service. Joining the Clarity-Live offering, which provides intraday tick history on all domestic exchange feeds, the new Clarity-HD offers algorithmic and other application developers interactive API access to all quote, trade and administrative messages sent over direct exchange feeds since August 2006. Feeds include OPRA, all domestic equity exchanges and ECNs, all domestic futures exchanges and others.

Essex Radez News Release 

Technorati Tags: Essex Radez, tick history, direct exchange feeds, OPRA

Dow Jones has enhanced its Dow Jones Elementized News Feed, adding public company data in a computer readable format. The XML-based feed is designed to be used for algorithmic trading, quantitative analysis and execution management applications.
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London-based Datastream Analysis Ltd (DSAL) - a Streambase Systems partner and application developer - has benchmarked calculations used in algorithmic trading at 200,000 calculations per second and 1.5 million updates per second, leveraging Intel’s Low Latency Laboratory in the UK.
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The SWX Swiss Exchange and virt-x, its London-based securities exchange, has launched its “Trading For The Future” technology initiative, which focuses on the implementation of a high capacity, low latency trading platform. Offering at least ten times more capacity, ten times higher speed and based on technology initially used by the SWX Group for trading in warrants and structured products, the platform is is being directed to algorithmic trading and DMA.

SWX News Release

Technorati Tags: swx, virt-x, algorithmic trading

Streambase Systems and Microsoft are launching a complex event processing architecture for algorithmic trading, focusing on the critical real-time sections of an algo trading system and its key presentation layer components. The architecture defines and end-to-end framework for algorithmic equities trading and describes the interconnection between its key real-time and user interaction components. The key real-time components are market data cleansing, data enrichment, trading strategies, risk management, execution strategies, and market impact/implementation shortfall processing. At the presentation layer, it leverages Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Streambase News Release

Technorati Tags: streambase systems, streambase, microsoft, complex event processing, wpf

Trading platform vendor TradingScreen has integrated Interactive Data Corp.’s DirectPlus with its Tradesmart offering. DirectPlus provides access to sub-one millisecond data from a range of sources, such as NYSE Openbook (including “Best Quotes”), Nasdaq Level 1 and SingleBook, ArcaBook and Direct Edge ECN. By offering access to this ultra-low latency data directly within its platform, TradingScreen can help enable customers to more efficiently develop and execute their algorithmic trading strategies.
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London-based Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI) is leveraging Aleri’s Streaming Platform and Sybase’s Real-Time Analytics Platform (RAP) to implement a tick-capture solution to support its increasing algorithmic and strategy trading.
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