Program trading Archive

Advanced Financial Applications (AFA), an EMS/OMS trading technology provider, has expanded its asset class coverage to include global equity markets. read more>

Citi announced yesterday that it has promoted Richard Evans to global head of its electronic execution business. read more>

Though the U.S. economy will grow at a below-trend pace in 2007— and the equity markets will remain volatile— stock prices should still end the year higher than they are today read more>

Citi has agreed to buy Automated Trading Desk (ATD), an electronic market making and proprietary trading company, for $680 million in cash and stock. read more>

Piper Jaffray Algorithmic and Program Trading (APT) team adds its most recent algorithm, Hornet to several order management systems (OMS), including Bloomberg, Eze Castle, Charles River, Macgregor, Br read more>

Quant House, the low latency market data feeds, feed handlers and solutions provider for quant traders and low latency-sensitive financial institutions, has announced that it has acquired SmartQuant technology, rebranded QuantFACTORY. SmartQuant's trading strategies development tools enable users to develop, back-test, simulate and execute program trading strategies, the firm says. read more>

Quant House, the market data feeds, feed handlers and solutions provider for quant traders and low latency-sensitive financial institutions, has released its feed handler for the NASDAQ Stock Market's TotalView-ITCH 3.0 and pan-European exchange Euronext's 'FIM over MMTP' data feeds. "By using the Market By Order fea read more>

Reuters is attempting to take news-driven trading to a new level by tagging news items so that they can be read by computers and fed into automated trading programmes. Reuters NewsScope Real-time will let Reuters clients use Reuters live news content to drive automated trading and respond to market-moving events as t read more>