Upon joining Progress in 1989, Gus Bjorklund fixed bugs in Progress 4.2N. Since then, Gus has joined the OpenEdge Best Practices team and he has worked on various initiatives, focusing primarily on the OpenEdge RDBMS. He has been a...

As regulators continue to look into the causes of the May 6th flash crash, some high frequency trading approaches are coming under scrutiny. In particular the concept of “quote stuffing”, where algorithms send so many orders into the order book that the market cannot possibly respond, has come under...

I have been seeing an increasing amount on interest in the marriage between Business Transaction Management (BTM) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). On July 29^th Dr Dobbs Journal published an article called Complex Event Processing: IT...

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"

— Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are

It’s not just equities and futures markets where strange stuff happens! An “algo gone wild” was spotted in the oil market (it actually happened earlier this year)...

Last week I had the wonderful fortune to deliver a webinar with Robin Bloor on the role of events in decision management. This event, as a part of Information Management’s Espresso Shot webinar series, gave us a chance to dig into the market...