Algorithmic Trading Software

Algorithmic Trading Requires Robust Infrastructure

Algorithmic trading software is constantly transforming. As the volume of real-time market data continues to increase, algorithmic trading solutions demand an infrastructure that can respond to market data with near zero latency. To trade effectively in competitive markets requires rapid, opportunistic response to changing market conditions before one's competition can seize those opportunities. And in the world of algorithmic trading, a reaction that's even milliseconds faster than the competition can mean access to prices and liquidity that determine profitability. With trading volumes constantly increasing and competition fierce as ever, both sell-side and buy-side traders need a robust and richly-featured technology infrastructure to successfully create, test, deploy and manage their algorithmic strategies. Today, leading trading firms worldwide are turning to Apama from Progress Software for that infrastructure.

Progress Software Provides the Industry-Leading Algorithmic Trading Platform

As the market-leading platform for algorithmic trading, Progress® Apama® allows traders to rapidly design, deploy and refine automated strategies that leverage a trader's unique trading techniques. Unlike “black box” trading solutions that offer commoditized, pre-defined strategies, Apama's “white box” solution allows traders to quickly develop unique algorithmic trading strategies that build on their own intellectual property. Upon deployment, Apama's execution engine – the Apama Correlator - easily manages a virtually unlimited number of algorithmic trading scenarios that operate on financial data feeds. Apama algorithmic trading applications can execute a wide array of unique strategies that monitor and analyze events from real-time market feeds, taking action in milliseconds. Apama delivers fast, responsive action even when incoming rates exceed thousands of events per second and concurrent strategies number in the thousands. With Apama's patented Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform, trading firms can monitor unprecedented levels of market activity and respond immediately - exploiting advanced insights with sophisticated strategies.

 

Advanced Features for Strategic Algorithmic Trading Software

Apama delivers advanced features for algorithmic trading software allow traders to:

• Develop unique automated trading strategies with a graphical modeling environment that is accessible to traders.
• Package existing algorithmic modules for reuse in new strategies.
• Build upon a foundation library of trading algorithms.
• Evaluate and refine strategies through backtesting against historical data.
• Execute thousands of trading scenarios concurrently.
• Use packaged connectivity for access to financial feeds.
• Optimize trade opportunities for both sell-side and buy-side firms.
  
  

Apama includes an extensible framework for integrating with market data feeds, middleware technologies, order management systems and databases. And it offers a rich dashboard environment for graphical monitoring of algorithmic trading execution.

In addition to delivering industry-leading solutions for algorithmic trading, Progress Software provides an array of real-time solutions, including business activity monitoring (BAM), business event processing (BEP) and data integration. We also help you achieve operational responsiveness using the Progress Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite which allows you to gain real-time visibility into business events (such as stock trades), immediately sense and respond to problems before they become a problem, and achieve continuous process improvement.