Algorithmic Trading Archive

The adoption of algorithmic trading by domestic institutions in India has had a slow start, but Edelweiss Securities is an exception, with the firm having launched a full range of algorithmic strategies over the past two years. read more>

A new algorithm developed by GETCO will leverage the Chicago-based electronic market maker's trading strategies to give buy-side clients access to high-frequency liquidity untapped by other algo providers. read more>

Rapid growth of the Asia Pacific exchange-traded funds market has given rise to the need for algorithmic trading tools that enable institutional investors to access the ETF market efficiently and enhance the liquidity of these instruments. read more>

Deutsche Bank's Autobahn electronic trading business has made its suite of execution algorithms – including its Stealth liquidity seeking tool – available for trading Brazilian equities. read more>

GETCO, a global electronic market maker, has unveiled a new high-frequency style execution algorithm that allows institutional investors to mimic the behaviour of low-latency market-making strategies. read more>

Handing greater oversight of algorithms to regulators may help identify the causes of market dislocations, according to responses to May's poll on theTRADEnews.com, but many market participants are worried about the impact on execution performance. read more>

Agency broker and trading solutions provider ITG has launched a new version of its Liquidity Filter technology, which it claims will help the buy-side trade large orders across multiple dark pools – including those containing toxic flow – with minimum information leakage. read more>

The US subsidiary of Instinet, the agency brokerage services and technology provider, has added an intraday match to its volume weighted average price cross to reduce the cost of executing illiquid and sensitive orders. read more>

Regulators want to see tighter controls over algorithms, but debate remains over how these could be effectively implemented and who the checks should apply to. read more>

India may be catching up with established Asian markets in its adoption of electronic trading tools but many of the country's buy-side firms continue to prefer more traditional techniques, according to a new report by research group Celent. read more>