Automated Futures Trading
Market interest in automated, algorithmic, quantitative and black box futures trading has grown immensely over the last several years as active online futures traders, quants, hedge funds, asset managers (CTAs & CPOs), proprietary trading groups and institutions seek to automate their online futures trading systems and strive for more efficient and competitive automated futures trading strategies. Trade automation can provide many benefits and customization:
- low latency and event-driven architecture
- Broad choice of strategy development languages and data feeds (i.e. XTAPI, TT FIX Adapter, eSignal, Tradestation, PATS Systems and other FIX protocols)
- High performance simulation, conformance and back-testing capabilities (yearly, monthly, daily, Intraday and tick data)
- Customized market depth, order entry and execution modules (market, stop, limit, stop limit orders, OCO (One Cancels the Other), OCA (One Cancels All)
- Customized indicators, technical analysis and quantitative libraries
- Customized order entry and execution Auto execution and order routing functionality
Trade Automation Consulting – Strategy Development, Programming, Conversion, Back-Testing and Deployment
We provide our clients with consulting services on the technology and brokerage aspects of automated derivatives trading, algorithmic and quantitative strategy development, black box programming, trade automation, strategy conversion and back-testing in the global derivatives markets. We understand our client’s needs and we can help bridge the relationship and operational gaps between our clients and developers, programmers, hosting and infrastructure providers, regulators, banks, exchanges and prime brokers.
Our automated futures trading consulting services can help you manage the entire trade automation lifecycle from automated, quantitative and algorithmic strategy development to the prime brokerage relationships and trading infrastructure needed to facilitate your automated strategies. By fully automating a commodity futures trading system, you can greatly shorten the time to create and deploy new trading strategies so that you can remain focused on your core competency – managing investments:
- increase scalability of your derivatives trading strategies and trading volumes by accessing more derivatives products and markets
- increase operational efficiency, reduce labor costs of hiring multiple traders to execute futures trading strategies
- increase liquidity, price transparency and quality of execution
- reduce costs of electronic commodity futures trading, clearing, execution and back-office operations through streamlined order entry and enhanced data integrity
- quickly execute complex derivatives trading algorithms and quantitative strategies
- minimize failure rates on automated, algorithmic, quantitative and black box futures trading strategies and systems
- improve quality of transactional and historical futures data to help you measure best execution
- attain greater price transparency so that you can capitalize on market opportunities and maintain a competitive advantage in marketplace
Automating the trading process involves a deep understanding of our client’s needs and goals. We believe that what distinguishes us in the marketplace, is our consultative approach and desire to listen to clients first and understand their business models, needs and goals. Please contacts us to find out more about how we can help you take your trade automation needs to the next level.
