Create, Test, Deploy and Manage Custom Algorithmic Trading Strategies

To trade effectively, you need to be able to respond rapidly and opportunistically to changing market conditions. 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.

Leverage the Market-Leading Algorithmic Trading Platform

As the market-leading platform for algorithmic trading, the OANDA or META TRADER enables rapid design, deployment and refinement of automated strategies that leverage your unique trading techniques. Unlike black box trading solutions that offer commoditized, pre-defined strategies, with Apama's “white box” solution you can quickly develop unique algorithmic trading strategies built upon your own intellectual property. Apama's patented Event Stream Processing (ESP) platform monitors unprecedented levels of market activity to enable an immediate response.

The Algorithmic Trading Platform's advanced features will also allow you 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.

Progress Software provides an array of real-time solutions, including business activity monitoring (BAM), complex event processing (CEP) and data caching software.