Progress Software

Trading Algorithms

Successful Trading Algorithms Require Both Development and Deployment Speed

In the hyper-competitive world of algorithmic trading, speed is often considered the key to success. But speed is not just how fast a trading algorithm executes. It is also a function of the tools that allow traders to quickly capitalize on new opportunities. When fractions of a second can mean the difference between gains and losses, the focus on infrastructure is understandable. After all, successful trading algorithms must monitor, analyze and responded to market information in milliseconds. But speed of execution is not sufficient. Traders also need flexible trading systems, since that flexibility is critical to developing differentiated algorithms, backtesting their effectiveness, and deploying them. As the market for trading algorithms becomes more sophisticated, both buy-side and sell-side firms require increasingly more sophisticated tools. And for many of the market's leading firms worldwide, it is Progress® Apama® that provides the answer.

Rich Platform for Developing Trading Algorithms

The market-leading platform for developing, deploying and managing trading algorithms, the Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform provides an unparalleled platform for creating unique differentiated strategies. Unlike “black box” solutions that feature pre-designed strategies, Apama's “white box” approach enables traders to implement their own unique algorithmic strategies. And with Apama's robust event processing platform, traders can monitor unprecedented levels of market data, spanning different asset classes, and take action in milliseconds. Apama's robust execution engine can support tens of thousands of concurrent trading scenarios, even when market data rates reach untold thousands of events per second, providing a platform for a firm's trading algorithms that offers extraordinary value to either the sell-side or buy-side. Sell-side firms can quickly develop unique scenarios for their own proprietary trading desks or for access by buy-side clients. In turn, buy-side firms can opt to develop their own unique strategies with Apama, providing greater flexibility in the choice of venues available for executing their trades.

Enhanced Development of Trading Algorithms with Graphical Tools

The Apama Event Modeler provides a unique graphical development environment that lets trade strategists shorten the development cycle in creating new trading algorithms. What might otherwise take weeks or months can now be delivered in mere hours or days. And Progress Apama complements its graphical tools with a sophisticated library of pre-defined, but customizable, templates for trading algorithms that can be used as is or customized to create new unique strategies. With its advanced backtesting environment, Research Studio, trade strategists can quickly test new strategies against historical tick data prior to deployment in live environments.

Progress Software delivers a number of other real-time solutions, including data caching, complex event processing, business activity monitoring and data integration software.