Tag: algo trading

March 27, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Deltix and CitiFX TradeStream team up for algo research and execution solution

Software company Deltix joins forces with Citi to provide integrated algo-trading solution for research and automated execution of FX Despite the European Parliament's openly adverse view toward algorithmic and high frequency trading (HFT) among institutions across the continent, North America's technology firms and fiscal authorities show no sign of halting their increasing will to refine…

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March 12, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Fed Extends Arm To HFT Recognizing Contribution To Market Efficiency

Federal Reserve of New York Researcher Ernst Schaumburg Considers HFT Vital For Efficient FX Order Flow As the somewhat draconian steps being taken by the European Commission toward high frequency trading (HFT) continue to take shape, the viewpoint of senior officials across the pond denote a contrasting perspective. The New York Federal Reserve has released a…

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March 06, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

International Latency Race Continues As Mercury Minerva Upgrades HFT System With 25% Performance Increase

As the world of HFT and algorithmic trading continues to up its game, Mercury Minerva's release of Gunslinger-HFT 2.0 Achieves 750ns Event-Detection-to-Trade Latency using Solarflare AOE with Altera Stratix FPGA As regulatory authorities in many jurisdictions which are home to major FX market participants continue to bear down on high frequency trading (HFT) and automated trading…

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November 26, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FX Concepts bankruptcy detailed

World’s largest currency hedge fund, once $14B, ended with just $2M under management and $79M liabilities Few people would have thought that John Taylor's once mighty currency hedge fund would be going out of business so soon after it was established as a leader in the industry. Once a $14 bln dollar giant it ends…

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