Q&A: OneMarketData’s Lovas on the Low Latency Arms Race, TCA and Big Data
From time to time, it’s good to take the pulse of the low-latency world to get updated on the status quo, and find out what’s coming next. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got such insight from Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData. Q: Compared to a year ago, where are trading firms focusing in their efforts to align...
Revolution Analytics Upgrades R Platform For Big Data
Revolution Analytics has announced general availability its commercial-grade analytics suite, Revolution R Enterprise 6.0. Using the built-in RevoScaleR package, R users can process, visualise and model terabyte-class data rapidly, without the need for specialised hardware. Highlights of Revolution R Enterprise 6.0 include: Platform LSF Cluster Support – Now supports distributed computing on multi-node Platform LSF...
Fixed Income with Electronic Trading
In the world of electronic trading, fixed income has seen slow uptake compared to equities and foreign exchange, mainly due to the much more complicated types of underlying financial calculations – which can require many minutes, sometimes even hours of processor time. This stands in marked contrast to electronic trading of equities or foreign exchange...
NYSE Technologies Taps Hanweck GPU Calculations for Options Analytics Feed
NYSE Technologies is set to roll out its Options Analytics low-latency data feed, which includes implied volatilities and Greeks data for U.S. listed options, as well as quotes on options and underlying assets. The service monitors the entire U.S. OPRA composite NBBO feed and U.S. Level 1 composite feeds for underlying stocks and indices, with...
Learning From Mistakes: Applying Big Data to Realtime Risk Analysis
by Daniel Wakefield, IMGROUPwww.imgroup.com As the financial sector once again reels under yet more allegations of huge losses (this time at JPMorgan Chase) there is a more than mild sense of déjà vu here at IMGROUP. Yet again, questions are being asked about how one desk, perhaps even one trader, can lose such a significant...
GigaSpaces Points XAP9.0 at Big Data
GigaSpaces Technologies has released XAP9.0 – its application platform – focusing it on real-time big data applications. Says Adi Paz, GigaSpaces’ EVP of marketing and business development: “What is common to all real-time analytics systems is the need for streaming data processing, alongside batch processing, such as Hadoop provides. However, building a system for big...
Mellanox, AMAX, STEC Join for Hadoop Appliance
Networking specialist Mellanox Technologies has joined forces with server/storage company Amax and solid state storage vendor Stec in the introduction of the PHAT-DATA40G, an appliance geared to running Hadoop. The appliance includes an Amax server, hosting Intel E5-2600 chips (often know as Sandy Bridge), Mellanox’s 40gE networking and 960 GB SSDs from Stec. Installation and...
Google Releases BigQuery Analytics
Following about six months in beta, Google has released BigQuery, a cloud-based analytics service that it claims can run SQL-like queries on billions of rows of data “at Google speed.” The service is being pitched at enterprises looking to run ad-hoc queries on datasets, and leverages Google’s massively parallel cloud infrastructure to acheive its high...
Trading Technologies/MathWorks Partner for Data Intensive Quant Trading
Trading Technologies International, which develops trading systems for the derivatives markets, has partnered with MathWorks, developer of the Matlab data analysis and numerical computation package, to link the two systems so that data intensive quantitative trading algorithms can access realtime pricing and submit orders directly to markets. The Matlab Datafeed Toolbox leverages Trading Technologies’ XTAPI...
Arista Application Switch Extends Choices for FPGA Deployment and Architectures
Last month’s announcement by Arista Networks of its 7124FX Application Switch – which incorporates an Altera FPGA alongside low-latency network switching – has expanded the possibilities for system architects looking to incorporate hardware acceleration by running application code – such as algo trading – on FPGAs. It’s also boosted the industry penetration of FPGA chipmaker...