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Algorithmic Trading Resource Center

Here you will find a library of articles, news, technical papers and other information sources that will keep you informed of new Algorithmic Trading techniques and technology achievements.

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19 Sep 2007

The Gartner Event Processing Summit 2007

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03 Apr 2007

Using CEP and BAM for Fraud & Compliance Monitoring

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22 Mar 2007

Fixed Income gets serious with algorithmic trading

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20 Feb 2007

Casa de Bolsa Finamex Mexico Selects Progress Software's Apama Technology

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25 Jan 2007

Progress Apama Partners with Microsoft to Deliver MiFID Solution

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15 Dec 2006

Progress Apama Gets Failover Features - SD Times

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12 Dec 2006

From Reuters, Automatic Trading Linked to News Events - The New York Times

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15 Nov 2006

Koscom Selects Progress Software's Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform For Korean Exchange Trading Operations

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13 Nov 2006

Progress Extends Event Processing Market Leadership with Introduction of Apama 3.0

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15 Dec 2006

Progress Apama Gets Failover Features - SD Times

12 Dec 2006

From Reuters, Automatic Trading Linked to News Events - The New York Times

01 Nov 2006

Ten Algorithmic Trading Trends in the Lead-up to 2010 (PDF) - The Banker
Dr. John Bates, co-founder of Apama and Vice President, Apama Products, Progress Software, and Mark Palmer, Vice President, Event Processing, Progress Software, make 10 predictions for the future as algorithmic trading enters the mainstream.

Oct 2006

The White Box Approach - Algorithmic Trading for FX (PDF) - e-FOREX
Dr. John Bates, co-founder of Apama and Vice President, Apama Products, explains why "As innovative FX traders see the tangible benefits of leveraging today's ESP technology, for greater control and reduced risk, the race for supremacy in the algorithmic trading market will continue unabated."

Apr 2006

Today's Top 10 - A Guide for Buy Sides on How to Get Ahead in Algo (PDF) - STP Magazine
Dr. John Bates, co-founder of Apama and Vice President, Apama Products, presents of 10 innovative algorithmic trading techniques currently being used by buy side firms, including those set to become wider trends during the coming year.

29 Oct 2006

Automating FX - Algorithmic Trading in Foreign Exchange (PDF) - FX Weekly

04 Oct 2006

HG Trading Deploys Progress Software's Apama Platform for Competitive Edge in Algorithmic Trading

Jun 2006

Algorithmic Gymnastics - Keeping at Least One Vault Ahead of the Rest (PDF)

05 Jun 2006

Technology Award from The Banker

24 Feb 2006

Traders Battle Latency with: Fast Data Applications - Traders Magazine

Nov 2005

SOA: Is everyone talking the same language? - IBS Publishing

Sep 2005

Blurring the Lines - DWT

Jul 2005

Pumping up the Volume - Energy Risk

May 2005

Streaming: The Emergence of a New Technology Trend (PDF) - Hurwitz Associates


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Enhancing Sell-Side Offerings with Apama's Algorithmic Trading

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Online Events


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Using CEP and BAM for Fraud & Compliance Monitoring

With CEP you can monitor and act on complex business conditions immediately and deliver the real potential of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). Join this webinar, hosted by Dr. John Bates and Dr. Giles Nelson, and see real world examples of how CEP and BAM can deliver applications for fraud and compliance monitoring.

Fixed Income gets serious with algorithmic trading

Today's hyper competitive environment - and continually shifting landscape within the Fixed Income market - means both buy- and sell-side firms need to adapt to the effects of change, and act quickly to outwit their competition.The bond markets might not appear to be as suited to algorithmic trading as equities or FX but there is growing evidence that as automation takes hold of the industry fixed income traders are set to take advantage of these advanced mathematical models. Please join Wall Street and Technology and Dr. John Bates for an Editorial Perspectives TechWebCast and hear how some business users are already embracing algorithmic trading within Fixed Income.

Event-Based Trading Systems - Addressing a New Generation of Requirements

This webinar will introduce an algorithmic platform that incorporates event-based information processing, or event processing. During this webinar you will hear about the architecture required to build event-based trading systems, learn the roles of business and IT in creating successful strategies, discover the use of testing and analysis within the trade strategy lifecycle, and view real world examples of event-based trading solutions spanning different asset classes.

The Next Generation of Algorithms

During this webinar you will hear how you can leverage new tools to customize trading algorithms, learn how the next generation of algorithms will span asset classes, find out how leading-edge institutions are exploiting high frequency techniques, and discover a platform with integration capabilities that incorporate a variety of data - not just tick data - to enrich your algorithmic strategies.

PART 3: Get Up to Speed on ESP - Event Replay and Analysis

Listen to an interactive session in which Louis Lovas, Progress Apama Technical Fellow, and John Trigg, Progress Apama Prinicipal Product Manager, discuss some of the challenges involved with the capture of production event streams and the design of applications that execute important backtesting and analysis operations.

PART 2: Get Up to Speed on ESP - Architectural Foundations

Listen as Mark Palmer, VP of Event Processing and Dr. John Bates, VP Apama Products, explore the key elements that should be considered when picking a strategic event stream processing platform. Hear how an event processing platform differs from a mere "engine", what makes an it truly scalable, and how to leverage real event stream data to test and analyze applications.

Part I: Get Up to Speed with ESP - A Panel of Experts from Progress Software

In this webinar we gave attendees the opportunity to ask three Event Stream Processing experts questions about their specific ESP needs. Attendees were able to take advantage of the collective experience of Mark Palmer, VP of Event Processing, Dr. John Bates, VP Apama Products, and John Trigg, Principal Product Manager.

Gain the Upper Hand with High Frequency Algorithmic Trading

In this webinar, Dr. John Bates, VP Apama Products, explores the hedge fund managers focus on "high frequency trading" to gain competitive advantage. To beat the market, a range of automated trading techniques are being employed - from high frequency trading, used by a growing number of hedge funds - to the less exotic VWAP (volume weighted average price). To ensure success they have started to acquire and develop algorithmic trading techniques that give them the ability to quickly and easily customize proprietary algorithms, and perform backtesting and tuning of trading strategies before execution into the market.

The Emerging Opportunity for Algorithms in FX Trading and Hedging

The opportunities for algorithmic platforms in FX have risen significantly. FX trading volumes continue to rise, with spreads narrowing and a flourishing demand for access to alternative pools of liquidity. Many market participants are investigating how algorithmic trading platforms can leverage FX opportunities more effectively - whether for trading or risk management.

Emerging Trends in Algorithmic Trading

In this webinar John Bates explores emerging trends of Algorithmic Trading or Algo Trading. He talks about the requirements of today's trading strategy models and what trends we may see in the future. (60 minutes)


Trading Solutions from Apama

  • Trading Strategy Management
    Empower business users, such as traders, to compose, deploy and manage algorithmic trading strategies. Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform can connect to a wide range of industry standard market access systems, enabling market data to be received and orders to be placed and managed. FIX connectivity is, of course, provided - as is connectivity to a number of proprietary market data systems, order management systems and database systems.
  • Buy-Side Trading
    Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform provides an integrated environment for the composition, deployment and management of algorithmic trading strategies. Rather than packaged "black box" strategies, Proprietary Traders, Hedge Fund and Asset Managers can to "go inside" their strategies and modify them to capture their own secret ingredients.
  • Sell-Side Trading
    Unique application features enable sell-side institutions to increase both profitability and competitive advantage. Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform can be hosted by a broker, enabling the broker to offer new capabilities for the composition, deployment and management of algorithmic strategies to their buy-side customers. In addition to brokerage enhancements Apama can be used in a number of avenues within the sell-side, such as facilitating internal crossing, thus improving on the cost of execution; or facilitating market making in any asset class. Apama can also be used as a pricing engine to continually re-price any asset, such as bonds or options.

Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform Technology

  • Trading Strategy Modeling
    The Apama Event Modeler provides a unique graphical development environment that enables traders to compose and deploy algorithmic trading strategies. Scenarios are composed graphically by the Scenario Manager component of the Event Modeler.
  • Trading Strategy Execution
    Once developed, strategies execute within the Correlators of the Apama Event Manager where a patented multi-dimensional filtering mechanism quickly sifts through market data streams, detects patterns, and identifies appropriate trading responses - all within milliseconds.
  • Integration Environment
    The Integration Adapter Framework (IAF) includes packaged adapters for such feeds and services such as Reuters, GLTrade, EBS, JMS, and others.