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Infinigon Group Generating Realtime Trading Signals From Twitter
New York City-based Infinigon Group is emerging from stealth mode and is working with select trading firms to test their software, which provides trading signals by analysing Twitter activity in real time. Infinigon’s web-based platform taps into the 400 million tweets delivered via the Twitter Firehouse, a real-time feed of all tweets, and applies proprietary…
Zeptonics Taps Mellanox For Ultra-Low-Latency Matching Engine
Sydney-based Zeptonics is integrating network interface cards from Mellanox Technologies into its ZeptoMatch matching engine. The integration boasts wire-to-wire matching for a million orders per second with a median wire-to-wire match time of 1.97 microseconds and a typical client roundtrip of three microseconds. ZeptoMatch is a software-only application, running on commodity x86/Red Hat Linux servers,…
Prescient Ridge Management Tries On Made-to-Measure From Connamara Systems
Managed futures fund Prescient Ridge Management (PRM) is turning to Connamara Systems and its Made-to-Measure trading suite to support its expansion into new markets, using new trading strategies. Made-to-Measure (MtM) bridges build versus buy development approaches by providing pre-built components that can be augmented by proprietary code to form complete trading systems. PRM currently trades…
Financial Markets Data Centres Survive Sandy Devastation
Judging by feedback from various industry people in the New York City region, the principle data centres serving the financial markets survived the onslaught of Monday night’s Hurricane Sandy without any problems. One exception was a power issue at the 111 8th Avenue carrier hotel. Several data centres remain on generator power, though fuel deliveries…
Cisco and Friends Publish Real World Latency Statistics for Nexus 3548 Switch
Cisco Systems has teamed with a group of market data feed handler, latency management and integration vendors to produce an early set of real world latency statistics for its recently introduced Nexus 3548 switch. Apart from Cisco, the latency testing – which comprised a proof-of-concept implementation to show end-to-end latency validated with real-time market data…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Murdoch’s Dow Excitement
Amid the twin distractions of the two Ss – Sandy and Sibos – an innocuous Tweet by no less than Rupert Murdoch almost passed us by this week. It read: Most of this week with Dow Jones team. Exciting things coming soon. And it was accompanied by the photo above. That looks an awful lot…
TraFXpure Plans Random Latency FX Trading
Nope, the date is not April 1, though I had to double check. TraFXpure, a planned spot market for foreign exchange, has begun testing for an early 2013 go live, exercising a matching engine that features random latency execution. To be exact, the matching engine’s latency is not random, but orders submitted to it will be…
Digital Reasoning, Tableau, Cloudera Focus Unstructured Data Analytics on Financial Markets
Partnering with Tableau Software for data visualisation, and leveraging Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution for storage, Digitial Reasoning is applying its Synthesys unstructured data analytics platform at financial markets applications. Synthesys takes structured and unstructured text as input and then uses named entity recognition, understanding of time and geographic references, combined with patented relationship analysis, to develop…
Interactive Data Unveils Apex XML-Delivered Reference Data Suite
Interactive Data has responded to market demand for easy and cost-effective access to reference data with the introduction of Apex, a selection of reference data service delivery and access mechanisms including intraday data transfer, event-based messaging, web-services applications program interfaces (APIs) and a hosted managed database service. Acknowledging growing customer interest in data standards for…
LEI Development Embraces Change and Picks up Speed Ahead of G20 Meeting
The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) third progress note on the legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative, released last week, has met with a positive response from those involved in shaping the system, potential infrastructure providers and market data vendors, despite changes to some proposals and the collapse of perceptions that have built up during debate on…