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Algorithm Framework Allows QuantConnect Community to Share Code Modules
QuantConnect, an open source, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform, is inviting its community of algo developers to share code modules through Algorithm Framework, a tool that provides a defined structure for developing algos and allows code modules to be reused. The framework tool breaks down algos into five core features: universe selection, alpha creation, portfolio construction,…
Market EarlyBird Adds Mobile Version of Safe, Smart Twitter for Tweet Searches
Market EarlyBird has introduced a native mobile client for EarlyBird Safe, Smart Twitter for Finance, a read-only, anonymised service that provides Tweet search and filtering capabilities enabling users to find financial Tweets that others miss. The initial desktop Earlybird service is being used by banks and buy-side firms to enable traders, researchers and portfolio managers…
ITRS Integrates MapR AI and Analytics into Geneos Gateway Hub
ITRS Group is collaborating with MapR to integrate the latter’s AI and analytics platform into its Geneos real-time monitoring and analytics tool. MapR software will be integrated into ITRS’ Gateway Hub, a new module available to Geneos customers that will make it easier for them to capture data and alerts, and use a range of…
Recorded Webinar: Best practice timestamping and clock synchronisation
Timestamping and clock synchronisation have been embedded in the EU by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and are also a requirement of the US SEC Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The webinar will discuss how well firms have realised the MiFID II requirement, how it differs from the CAT requirement, and best practice…
A Ticking Clock: The Tricky Issue of Timestamping for MiFID II
MiFID II has introduced rigorous new requirements for timestamping and clock synchronisation, forcing firms to overhaul existing technology and implement new systems to comply. Accuracy is everything – but how successful has the industry been in meeting the tighter demands? In advance of A-Team’s webinar on timestamping and clock synchronisation tomorrow, we take a quick look…
Secret Transatlantic Radio Links Create Game Changing Advantage for Traders
By: Jason England, Head of Capital Markets Networks and Hosting, TD Securities Imagine if you could get prices and data 10 milliseconds faster than your competitors. The arbitrage benefits of the lowest latency transatlantic link would be enormous. NYC to London in 22 milliseconds is possible via radio and is a full 50% faster than…
Metamako Adds MetaProtect Firewall to Portfolio of FPGA Network Appliances
Metamako has extended its portfolio of field programmable gate array (FPGA) enabled network solutions with MetaProtect Firewall, a network appliance designed to deliver ultra-fast firewall protection and solve problems including situations where a firewall is mandatory but ultra-low latency and high port density are also required. The firewall solution takes Metamako into the security space…
WH Trading Uses QuantHouse for Low-Latency Global Market Access
WH Trading, a tech-savvy global proprietary trading firm, is using QuantHouse solutions QuantLINK and QuantFEED to support low-latency global market access. The Chicago based firm, which trades futures and options markets across US, Europe and Asia, is using QuantLINK, QuantHouse’s ultra-low latency 40G network, to enable market access and delivery of market data at low…
Why Banks Aren’t Looking in the Right Places to Tackle the Profitability Problem
By Jay Patani, Tech Evangelist at ITRS Revenues at the world’s top investment banks are at their lowest levels since the financial crisis in 2008. According to research firm Coalition, the top 12 investment banks’ revenue fell to $150 billion in 2017, a 4% decrease from the previous year. A sizeable part of the decreasing…
NovaSparks Offers FPGA Optimised Market Data Distribution for Microwave Networks
Field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data distribution company NovaSparks has developed patent pending bandwidth shaping and market data conflation mechanisms that allow its FPGA ticker plant, NovaTick, to automatically adapt its output data rate to meet microwave networks’ strict bandwidth requirements. Transmitting market data updates over microwave networks is notoriously challenging due to the…