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The New Cross-Asset Trading Challenge

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

By Simon Garland, CTO, Kx Systems

The traditional separation of asset classes into distinct business organizations with incompatible trading systems is an idea whose time has ended. Today the growing quest to automate every variety of asset trading – and in so doing to make possible the trading of assets among different classes – has created a growing business case for cross asset systems. Still, business case notwithstanding, it remains all too easy to fail at cross-asset trading. Here are some tips on how to succeed.
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Low Latency Crowd Braces For Hardware Acceleration

Monday, March 5th, 2007

By Henry Young, Director, TS-Associates

The era of software-based market data systems running on generic server and desktop hardware is now well through its second decade. The lifeblood of any large trading floor flows through the veins of its digital data distribution system. When the flow stops, all hell breaks loose. Our firm, TSAssociates, is in the business of preventing that from happening.

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Low-Latency Delivery Enters Mainstream; But Standard Measurement Remains Elusive

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

By Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief, A-Team Group

Low-latency distribution of market data via direct exchange feeds appears to have hit its stride. In fact, it has become the latest arms race. The fact remains, however, that there is no standard measurement of market data latency that offers apples-to-apples comparison between competitive data feeds, feed handlers and databases.

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