The real issue is core competency and they would prefer to invest their development skills (and time) into revenue generating activities like coding new trading strategies instead of building and maintaining “plumbing” like market data adapters and FIX connectors.
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Open source lacks the marketing muscle of richer proprietary cousins, but our model presents a genuine alternative to current industry practice…
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Why all the Fuss? High frequency trading has gotten a lot of media attention over the past few days, much of which most of which has been negative. This is due to a couple of factors: The down market has created disgruntled (and vocal) concerned citizens wary of the finance industry. That resentment and distrust [...]
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To really understand high frequency trading, we must understand where the industry has come from…
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Two data points surfaced in recent days that underline why we’re so passionate about democratizing trading with open source software. First, hedge fund returns are up. And not just up from the carnage of last year, but with 2.5% returns in September, it’s looking like hedge funds could have their best year since 2003. According [...]
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High-frequency trading (HFT) could use a good image consultant. Everyone from Floyd Norris to Chuck Shumer have questioned the validity and even legality of high-frequency strategies, as they have taken over from exchange floor specialists as the mainstream media’s favorite whipping boy. Unfortunately HFT is a term like “salad” where there are many definitions, and [...]
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Just as high frequency is the future of trading and open source is the future of trading technology, we believe that the cloud will be the future of the trading ecosystem. In today’s world of exploding market data and intense pressure on the financial services industry, buy-side firms and traders will be less able to [...]
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As we continue to come out with new screencasts available on our YouTube channel, you may be wondering what inspired me to start this project and what you can expect in the future. In the past few years, I’ve found various videos and demos on Ruby on Rails quite useful and informative. Ruby is the [...]
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Aite Group, a Boston research firm, reports that the high frequency trading community is now responsible for more than 60% of average daily volume in U.S. equities. High frequency trades are often executed with automated systems. Data volumes are exploding on Wall Street and the number of trades executed each year is increasing significantly. Traders [...]
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Since the release of the Marketcetera Automated Trading Platform 1.0 in January, we’ve brought on several great new board members and got the ball rolling with exciting new customers. And recently, we’ve heard continuing calls for open source from financial services firms trying to navigate a new market with smaller budgets. When Graham and Toli started [...]
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