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MetaTrader Gains SMX Certification

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:08:11 GMT

The latest version of MetaQuotes' trading platform has been approved for use at the Singapore Mercantile Exchange.

Is it possible to reduce the "human latency" around trading systems as much as 95 percent while increasing the information density presented to a trade 10-fold without causing information overload?

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Is it possible to reduce the "human latency" around trading systems as much as 95 percent while increasing the information density presented to a trade 10-fold without causing information overload?

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Singaporean Bank Suffers Significant Systems Failure

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:51:00 GMT

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Aqumin Adds Options Display, Pre-Set Views

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:12:00 GMT

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Houston, TX-based data visualization software vendor Aqumin is finalizing new graphical displays for its AlphaVision charting tool, which it will demonstrate at this week's SIFMA show.

The first, dubbed Options Landscape, displays options market data-sourced via the VoleraFeed from Activ Financial and Hanweck Associates-in a similar heatmap-style display as the vendor's equity market maps, based on a list of options specified by the user, or showing all options relating to a particular equity, which users can drill down into directly from AlphaVision's equities display.

"You can see all puts and calls for any date all together in one view... in a 3D landscape that changes dynamically," says Aqumin chief executive Michael Zeitlin. "Adding options was always in our strategic plan.... A lot of people expect stock information to be free, but in the options world, there is so little in the way of tools to help options traders manage the market, so we see this as an opportunity."

The vendor is also creating a "View Library" of pre-configured market views for different sectors or types of analysis-for example, to show values like percentage price change or cash and equivalents, or to support specific trading styles-that users can access to gain an overview of a market segment without having to set up their own lists of specific symbols. These views are now largely free, though Aqumin plans to charge subscription fees over time as it expands the range of views.

The views can support any asset class, thanks to Aqumin's Enterprise Intelligence Server, another new development, which connects to firms' proprietary databases, allowing them to display any internal data in AlphaVision.

Aqumin Adds Options Display, Pre-Set Views

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:12:00 GMT

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Crédit Agricole Deploys Caplin Xaqua for Fixed Income Trading

Wed, 26 May 2010 17:08:50 GMT

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Rob Daly WatersTechnology.com

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) is live with a new web-based single-dealer platform for fixed-income and structured notes trading from data and trading technology vendor Caplin Systems.

The bank deployed the vendor's Caplin Xaqua and Caplin Trader platforms for vanilla interest rates swaps and euro medium-term notes, according to Nick Green, head of fixed-income markets e-business at Crédit Agricole CIB. "Our objective was to provide our clients with the ability to trade a range of rates-based instruments via the web," he says.

The new trading capabilities are currently available to internal staff within the companies that make up Crédit Agricole Group, but officials plan to expand trading support to a wider range of products and make the system available to external clients, says Green.

Earlier this year, Caplin announced version 2.0 of its Caplin Trader web client framework for Caplin Xaqua that will support multi-leg trades, list trading through copy-and-paste from Microsoft Excel, and enhanced charting capabilities.

Paul Caplin, CEO of Caplin Systems, said at the time that the release would handle more updates with lower latency and increased reliability, and serve more asset classes. "It requires some work to upgrade to 2.0 with the new directory structure but the benefits of it are very large," he added.

Caplin Trader 2.0 supports all major operating systems, namely versions 6, 7 and 8 of Microsoft Internet Explorer; versions 3.5 and higher of the Firefox open-source browser; as well as Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers. The platform will work with the Opera browser, although because Caplin customers have made little demand for it, the vendor does not formally support it, according to officials.

Crédit Agricole Deploys Caplin Xaqua for Fixed Income Trading

Wed, 26 May 2010 17:08:50 GMT

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