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Not long ago, we published the blog post All Washed Up: Putting an End to Self Trading. We’ve since officially released our order-cross prevention functionality on TT, which provides users with the option to transfer a position when two opposing orders within the same group match on price.
We’re excited to make this feature available to our users, and we’re already working on enhancements. For example, within a few weeks, we’ll provide the ability to match exchange spreads and synthetically generate the spread and leg fills for each account.
As mentioned in my last blog, stay tuned to learn more about this feature as we continue to iterate and roll out new enhancements. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to us to learn more or to schedule a product demo. Or try TT yourself at trade.tt—it only takes a few seconds to create a free demo account.
Tags: Algos & Spread Trading, Trade Execution
It’s no secret that the futures industry has been expanding in the Asia/Pacific region recently. In fact, two of our most recent Trade Talk posts have touched on that very subject: Wedbush Futures’ Carl Gilmore discussed the rising Asian participation in the financial markets, and UOBBF CEO Matthew Png gave us a wide-ranging update on the futures industry in the region. As TT’s managing director for Singapore and Hong Kong, I wanted to provide a TT-specific update on some of the new developments in the region.
A few weeks ago, we made three exciting announcements relevant to Asia/Pacific. Two of them were with regard to new brokers joining our award-winning X_TRADER® ASP solution, formerly known as MultiBroker. Both China Merchant Securities (CMS) Hong Kong and RHB Securities Singapore signed on, boosting the platform’s number of sell-side participants to over 50 and adding local expertise in key Asian markets.
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Tags: Trade Execution
The Chicago summer is in the back nine, but golf season is still in full swing. After all the strokes were tallied at the Trading Technologies golf outing at Chicago’s own Ridgemoor Country Club, I had the privilege of sitting down over a pint at the 19th hole with industry veteran Carl Gilmore, co-head of futures for Wedbush Futures.
We had a lot to discuss as the futures division of Wedbush is not quite a year old and recently made the new TT trading platform available to their clients. And while we debated the likes of Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth and forecasted the future of Tiger, we also talked a little business and exchanged perspectives on the markets.
I summarized our conversation for this blog post. It’s a great opportunity for Trade Talk readers to learn a bit more about Wedbush Futures, garner insights about the current low interest rate environment and understand why Wedbush chose to be an early adopter of our new platform.
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| TT’s Robbie McDonnell (L) with Wedbush’s Carl Gilmore (R) at the recent Trading Technologies golf outing. |
Tags: Trade Execution
It’s been just over one week since Global Markets Exchange (GMEX) debuted. Connectivity was available at launch through X_TRADER®, and in fact the first trade on GMEX was executed between two X_TRADER users. We’re planning to offer access through the next-generation TT platform later this year.
GMEX has launched Euro-denominated IRS constant maturity futures (CMF) in response to demand from end users. These demands arose from changes in the European derivatives markets that were introduced under the European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and the European Commission’s review of the MiFID II. These futures, positioned as alternatives to OTC interest rate swaps, allow end users to benefit from the capital and margin efficiencies of futures, which are more favorable than the higher margin requirements for cleared swaps.
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Tags: Algos & Spread Trading, Trade Execution
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Algorithmic Trading: The Play-at-Home Version” highlighting the growth of a new crop of DIY tools that allow retail traders to easily automate their trading strategies. The users quoted in the article expressed excitement about having the ability to quickly build and deploy their own strategies, but they lamented that unforeseen issues in their algorithms led to sizable losses.
Since 1994, TT has been building tools to allow professional derivatives traders to automate their strategies. It’s encouraging to see the DIY algo programming trend start to migrate to retail traders, but the potential for loss with some of these systems is a detriment. To that end, allow me to point out a few differences between our approach and the others.
ADL® (Algo Design Lab)
Our ADL visual programming platform represented a major breakthrough in algorithmic trading when it was first brought to market in 2009. Using drag-and-drop actions to assemble building blocks, traders and programmers alike can rapidly design, test and deploy automated trading strategies without writing a single line of code. With ADL, users can generate executable strategies in hours to seize and act on fleeting market opportunities in timeframes that were difficult or even impossible to achieve previously.
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| With ADL, users drag and drop blocks containing pre-tested code onto a canvas to create automated trading programs. |
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Tags: Algos & Spread Trading, Trade Execution
