Automated Trading Software from Apama

Successful Automated Stock Trading Depends Upon Superior Technology

Automated trading software has to be deft and scalable. The speed at which financial trading applications must operate to be successful is constantly increasing. With the advent of automated trading (also known as high frequency automated trading) technology, even a few milliseconds of latency in acting on market data can mean the difference between exploiting a significant opportunity or losing out to changing market conditions Consequently, having the right technology infrastructure in place to support automated trading is critical to competitiveness. Not only will a superior infrastructure reduce latency in response to high frequency algorithmic trading opportunities, but it can allow firms to quickly develop and implement new strategies that take advantage of trading opportunities - while the opportunities are still available. For a superior automated trading platform with indispensable tools that reduce latency and optimize your high frequency trading opportunities, more and more firms around the world are turning to Apama from Progress Software.

Progress Apama Delivers the Leading Automated Trading Platform

Progress® Apama® Algorithmic Trading Platform is the market-leading automated trading platform. Unlike “black box trading” solutions that deliver pre-defined approaches that provide little differentiation, Apama's “white box” alternative is highly flexible and easily customizable so that traders can deploy unique automated trading strategies. Apama's high frequency trading platform allows firms to deploy sophisticated trading algorithms that can monitor market data from any source. Firms that are pursuing high frequency trading initiatives can use Apama to concurrently execute thousands of automated trading scenarios while monitoring and analyzing rapidly changing market conditions. Sell-side firms can more quickly create strategies for use by their prop desks or for access by their buy-side clients. In turn, buy-side firms can deploy Apama directly, gaining competitive advantage by creating strategies that place orders via direct market access or back through sell-side desks.

Event Modeler Reduces Automated Trading Implementation Time

The Apama Event Modeler enables traders to create and deploy algorithmic strategies through a unique graphical development environment. With Apama Event Modeler, traders reduce the development cycle for implementing new automated trading strategies from months or weeks to days or hours. Progress Apama accelerates the algorithmic creation effort with a library of algorithmic templates, or SmartBlocks, that can serve as a foundation for creating new proprietary strategies.

Other features of Apama include:

• Backtesting – Apama EventStore offers a sophisticated backtesting environment that allows users to test new automated trading strategies against selected periods of market history.
• Integration – Framework for integration lets users integrate market data feeds, order management systems, middleware technologies, and databases.
• Dashboards – a highly graphical, easily customizable dashboard interface that allows traders to initiate and monitor trade execution.
• Event Processing Language – Robust, richly expressive language that can fully capture all the logic driving an algorithmic strategy.
  
  

In addition to offering solutions that will jumpstart your automated trading environment, Progress Software delivers a number of other real-time solutions, including data integration, business event processing (BEP), business activity monitoring (BAM) and EDA software.