Category Archives: Futures and Options

OneTickCloud: Simplifying Access to Normalized Tick Data for Sophisticated Analysis

As I’m sure most of you have experienced there is an ever increasing need for more data… from domestic markets, international markets, capturing your own order flow, news, and recently sentiment from social media. Regardless of the hype around big … Continue reading

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Using the cloud to reduce complexity and lower costs for accessing and analyzing tick data

It’s easy to talk about utilizing market data to improve your business, but the mechanics of actually acquiring high quality, normalized, cleansed data in the format that you need have always posed a significant challenge – in human capital, IT infrastructure … Continue reading

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Social Sandbox – Where Social Media Meets Market Data

In today’s information age, we often take for granted that breaking news from across the globe will be delivered to our doorstep in an instant. The evolution of the internet has replaced radio, television and print journalism as the primary information … Continue reading

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Time Advantage to Analytical Inquiry, the value of Visual Data Discovery

How much time do you need to receive, analyse and respond to market events in today’s world of fragmented liquidity? Even if you have the fastest links to exchanges and dark pools, precious time is not taken in data delivery, … Continue reading

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Industry Survey, Momentum Builds for Cloud Services across Capital Markets

What is it about cloud computing that causes such a disturbance in the force?  The seduction of low-cost yet massive compute power creates overwhelming interest. Yet fears of a too-good-to-be-true offer create an emotional tug-of-war not for the faint hearted. … Continue reading

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Are Cloud Services Emerging as a Key Factor in Global Markets Trading?

Cloud computing, it means a lot of different things to different people and is one of the most over hyped technologies in all of computerdom.  There are public, private, hybrid, infrastructure, software and platform oriented cloud solutions. Crafty software vendors … Continue reading

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Industry Survey on the Impact of Social Media on Financial Markets

Commentary on social media outlets has reached peak levels. This year marks the seventh anniversary of Twitter and tweet volume now exceeds 400 million messages per day. Social media steps over traditional outlets to offer faster news delivery sprinkled with … Continue reading

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Understanding Complex Event Processing, it’s all about the Data

For the first half of this year equity markets are soaring on a sugar high; market indices regularly hit new highs as exhibited by the DOW’s 18 percent rise and the S&P 500 breaking 12 percent over the end of … Continue reading

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Data management – Speed, Quality or Volume

Recently Getco announced two grim figures. Their net income fell 82 percent and revenue declined by 41 percent. Even against the backdrop of the January Effect which has created a sugar-high for the S&P500,  a winning streak just shy of its all-time high of … Continue reading

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The Fear and Wisdom of Convergence – Cloud, Big Data and Low Latency

Convergence according to Wikipedia is the merger of previously distinct technologies into a new form; requiring new theories, new products, and new practices. The convergence of cloud computing, big data and low latency technologies have begun to meld together within … Continue reading

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