SaxoWebTrader
Online FX trading tool from Saxo Bank, Features: advanced charting and analysis, Trade 160+ FX crosses including gold and silver pairs, 6000+ CFDs and 11000+ stocks, dealer access, research from Saxo, real-time prices, account summary and portfolio performance
Advanced Trader
FX trading, charting, Java-based, no re-qoutes or re-confirmations, complex orders including contingency orders, analysis, tick-by-tick tradable price feed, real-time margin and position monitoring, From http://www.ac-markets.com
Showing posts with label securities trading tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label securities trading tools. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Protegent
SunGard's Protegent solutions for compliance, suitability and new account opening help retail and institutional investment firms oversee business processes relating to client acquisition and suitability, including Know Your Customer and OFAC list checking, as well as employees' personal trading and code of ethics, while helping reduce expenses and address regulatory requirements. Protegent supports supervision and practice, helps streamline the compliance life cycle, proactively monitors trades and provides comprehensive auditing and reporting.
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Primer Brokerage Systems
AdvisorWare
Tool used mainly by hedge funds for portfolio management, accounting and partnership accounting. Prime brokers can use the application to view the client portfolio. SS&C is the vendor.
Compliance Hub
Post-trade automation derivative products. Examples are credit and equity swaps. Communicator Inc.
Derivatives.com
Application service supplied by Imagine Trading to prime broker to allow their clients to risk management and trading services.
Financial Calendar
Global holidays database to reduce the number of expensive date discrepancies arising during the trade confirmation proces.
PBWire
Trade acceptance service for OTC interest rate derivatives trade intermediation as well as trade notification and confirmation.
Prime Brokerage for Matching
Thomson Reuters supplied service allowing clients to trade on Reuters. It matches in the name and utilises the credit of the prime broker.
Prime Brokerage Online Reporting
Provides performance, balance and trade confirmations for clients. Vendor is Actuate.
Scittura
Trade automation and trade confirmation validation. Supporting documents for OTC derivative instruments. Supplied by Interwoven.
TradeSmart
A trade platform for a variety of financial instruments. Vendor is TradingScreen
Visual Portfolio Manager
System with ortfolio accounting, trade processing and reporting for hedge fund clients so prime brokers can view their portfolios. Supplied by Sungad.
Tool used mainly by hedge funds for portfolio management, accounting and partnership accounting. Prime brokers can use the application to view the client portfolio. SS&C is the vendor.
Compliance Hub
Post-trade automation derivative products. Examples are credit and equity swaps. Communicator Inc.
Derivatives.com
Application service supplied by Imagine Trading to prime broker to allow their clients to risk management and trading services.
Financial Calendar
Global holidays database to reduce the number of expensive date discrepancies arising during the trade confirmation proces.
PBWire
Trade acceptance service for OTC interest rate derivatives trade intermediation as well as trade notification and confirmation.
Prime Brokerage for Matching
Thomson Reuters supplied service allowing clients to trade on Reuters. It matches in the name and utilises the credit of the prime broker.
Prime Brokerage Online Reporting
Provides performance, balance and trade confirmations for clients. Vendor is Actuate.
Scittura
Trade automation and trade confirmation validation. Supporting documents for OTC derivative instruments. Supplied by Interwoven.
TradeSmart
A trade platform for a variety of financial instruments. Vendor is TradingScreen
Visual Portfolio Manager
System with ortfolio accounting, trade processing and reporting for hedge fund clients so prime brokers can view their portfolios. Supplied by Sungad.
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
TechCrunch50 Award for StockMood
TechCrunch50 concluded on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 with StockMood.com winning the Thomson Reuters Award for news-based technology. StockMood.com, a website created by Quant the News, LLC, is a stock trading guidance system that uses artificial intelligence to analyze news-influenced "sentiment" expressed toward stocks, and to correlate this sentiment with price changes.
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, and one of the sponsors of TechCrunch50.
"We are honored to receive the Thomson Reuters award. We've put in a lot of work over the last year and it's very fulfilling to see our efforts recognized in this way," comments Quant the News, LLC CEO Brett Markinson. "What we discovered at TechCrunch50 was that there is a huge appetite out there for in-depth quantitative information about the effect of news on stock price. In the past this kind of information has only been available to hedge funds and institutional investors, but with StockMood.com, we're bringing it to the everyday investor."
StockMood.com launched in a private beta on Monday, September 8th at the start of the TechCrunch50 conference and feedback from the initial users was overwhelmingly positive.
Quant the News, LLC Chief Science Officer Dr. Ben Goertzel explains, "It's clear from the initial reactions to the website that ordinary stock investors have a huge interest in this kind of information. We're getting a lot of excited reactions and also, as expected with any new product, a lot of feature requests... Clearly the adventure of StockMood.com is just beginning, but thanks to TechCrunch50 we're off to an excellent start."
In addition to StockMood.com's stock "sentiment" analysis, the website offers unique attributes. One example is its "crowdsourcing" approach, which allows for improvement of its AI's classifications. For example, if the AI classifies an article as positive but the user thinks it is negative, then the user can enter a correction. Then, if the AI considers the user reliable, it will incorporate the user's correction to help guide future judgments.
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, and one of the sponsors of TechCrunch50.
"We are honored to receive the Thomson Reuters award. We've put in a lot of work over the last year and it's very fulfilling to see our efforts recognized in this way," comments Quant the News, LLC CEO Brett Markinson. "What we discovered at TechCrunch50 was that there is a huge appetite out there for in-depth quantitative information about the effect of news on stock price. In the past this kind of information has only been available to hedge funds and institutional investors, but with StockMood.com, we're bringing it to the everyday investor."
StockMood.com launched in a private beta on Monday, September 8th at the start of the TechCrunch50 conference and feedback from the initial users was overwhelmingly positive.
Quant the News, LLC Chief Science Officer Dr. Ben Goertzel explains, "It's clear from the initial reactions to the website that ordinary stock investors have a huge interest in this kind of information. We're getting a lot of excited reactions and also, as expected with any new product, a lot of feature requests... Clearly the adventure of StockMood.com is just beginning, but thanks to TechCrunch50 we're off to an excellent start."
In addition to StockMood.com's stock "sentiment" analysis, the website offers unique attributes. One example is its "crowdsourcing" approach, which allows for improvement of its AI's classifications. For example, if the AI classifies an article as positive but the user thinks it is negative, then the user can enter a correction. Then, if the AI considers the user reliable, it will incorporate the user's correction to help guide future judgments.
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Securities Trading
ABCDS
A credit default swap based on an Asset-Backed Security itself based on relatively risky home equity loans (U.S.) In effect a type of insurance against default on the underlying ABS.
Assignment
Receipt of an exercise notice by an option writer (seller) that obligates him to sell (in the case of a call) or purchase (in the case of a put) the underlying security at the specified strike price.
At-the-money
Occurs if the strike price of the option is equal to the market price of underlying security.
Avalanche
Network load and stress testing tool for web applications from Spirent Communications. Includes security stress testing, networks, web application testing, web services.
Call
An option contract giving the holder the right to buy the underlying security at a specified price for a certain, fixed period of time.
Capped-Style Option
Option with an established profit cap. The cap price is equal to the option's strike price plus a cap interval for a call option or the strike price minus a cap interval for a put option. Exercised automatically when the underlying security closes above or below the cap price, depending on whether it is a call or a put.
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Common Criteria
Set of strict predefined requirements for security.
Covered Call Option Writing
Trading strategy involving simultaneously selling call options and owning an equivalent position in the underlying security. The reverse is to sells a put option and shorting the underlying security.
Cox, Christopher
Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confirmed in 2005.
Data Governance
The process by which companies govern appropriate access to and the use and transmission of their critical data by measuring operational risk and controlling security exposures.
Derivative Security
Financial security whose value is determined in part from an another security's (the underlying security) value and characteristic.
DHS
Department of Homeland Security
Donaldson, William
Former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Expiration Cycle
The dates on which options on an underlying security expire. A given option is assigned to one of three cycles, January, February or March.
Futures Commission Agent
Engages in soliciting or accepting handling orders for the purchase or sale of futures contracts , subject to the rules of a futures exchange and, who, in connection with solicitation or acceptance or orders, accepts any money or securities to margin any resulting trades or contracts. Can be a firm or person.
General Controls
A type of control activity. Typically involve controls over data center operations, system software acquisition, system maintenance and access security.
HSPD-12
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.
IISP
Institute of Information Security Professionals
International Securities Lending Association
A trade association established in 1989 to represent the common interests of participants in the securities lending industry. ISLA works closely with European regulators and in the United Kingdom has representation on the Securities Lending and Repo Committee, a committee of market practitioners chaired by the Bank of England.
In-the-money
Occurs if the strike price of a call option is less than the market price of the underlying security. For put options the strike price has to be higher than the market price of the underlying security for it to be in-the money.
ISLA
International Securities Lending Association
LEAPS
Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities
NNSP
National Nuclear Security Administration
NSA
National Security Agency
Options Industry Council
An industry cooperative funded by the American Stock Exchange, Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ Options Market, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, NYSE Arca, and The Options Clearing Corporation.
Physical Controls
A type of control activity. They involve the physical security of assets. They ensure adequate safeguards over access to assets and records.
PSLRA
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1996
Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor
China: programme enabling Chinese insurance companies to invest in oversease securities.
Rule enforced by the SEC requiring U.S. to make available to the public that they make to securities analysts. If the disclosure is intentional the release has to be simultaneous. Unintentional disclosure has to be made available to the public within 24 hours.
RSA Conference
Conference organised every year by security giant RSA.
SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Securities Lending
Lending of securities by one party to another in return for collateral in the form fo cash, government securities or letter of credit. Terms of the loan are governed by a Securities Lending Agreement.
Securities Lending Agreement
Document detailing the terms of a securities lending deal or repurchase agreement (repo).
SIPC
Securities Investors Protection Corporation
TradeSecurity
Provider of security compliance and risk management solutions
TS2
System proprosed by the ECB for a single securities settlements across the Eurozone.
WFI
Supplier of design, deployment and management of wireless communication networks, technology networks and security systems.
Trade Suite / CNS Interface
Application used to streamline trade processing and reduce risk to executing broker and the prime broker. Supplied by National Securities Clearing Corporation
NSCC
National Securities Clearing Corporation
Swaps Pricing Platform
Accessing security quotes generated by broker-dealers that prime brokers use for calculating client's net asset values (NAV). Tool vendor is SQX.
A credit default swap based on an Asset-Backed Security itself based on relatively risky home equity loans (U.S.) In effect a type of insurance against default on the underlying ABS.
Assignment
Receipt of an exercise notice by an option writer (seller) that obligates him to sell (in the case of a call) or purchase (in the case of a put) the underlying security at the specified strike price.
At-the-money
Occurs if the strike price of the option is equal to the market price of underlying security.
Avalanche
Network load and stress testing tool for web applications from Spirent Communications. Includes security stress testing, networks, web application testing, web services.
Call
An option contract giving the holder the right to buy the underlying security at a specified price for a certain, fixed period of time.
Capped-Style Option
Option with an established profit cap. The cap price is equal to the option's strike price plus a cap interval for a call option or the strike price minus a cap interval for a put option. Exercised automatically when the underlying security closes above or below the cap price, depending on whether it is a call or a put.
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Common Criteria
Set of strict predefined requirements for security.
Covered Call Option Writing
Trading strategy involving simultaneously selling call options and owning an equivalent position in the underlying security. The reverse is to sells a put option and shorting the underlying security.
Cox, Christopher
Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Confirmed in 2005.
Data Governance
The process by which companies govern appropriate access to and the use and transmission of their critical data by measuring operational risk and controlling security exposures.
Derivative Security
Financial security whose value is determined in part from an another security's (the underlying security) value and characteristic.
DHS
Department of Homeland Security
Donaldson, William
Former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Expiration Cycle
The dates on which options on an underlying security expire. A given option is assigned to one of three cycles, January, February or March.
Futures Commission Agent
Engages in soliciting or accepting handling orders for the purchase or sale of futures contracts , subject to the rules of a futures exchange and, who, in connection with solicitation or acceptance or orders, accepts any money or securities to margin any resulting trades or contracts. Can be a firm or person.
General Controls
A type of control activity. Typically involve controls over data center operations, system software acquisition, system maintenance and access security.
HSPD-12
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.
IISP
Institute of Information Security Professionals
International Securities Lending Association
A trade association established in 1989 to represent the common interests of participants in the securities lending industry. ISLA works closely with European regulators and in the United Kingdom has representation on the Securities Lending and Repo Committee, a committee of market practitioners chaired by the Bank of England.
In-the-money
Occurs if the strike price of a call option is less than the market price of the underlying security. For put options the strike price has to be higher than the market price of the underlying security for it to be in-the money.
ISLA
International Securities Lending Association
LEAPS
Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities
NNSP
National Nuclear Security Administration
NSA
National Security Agency
Options Industry Council
An industry cooperative funded by the American Stock Exchange, Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ Options Market, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, NYSE Arca, and The Options Clearing Corporation.
Physical Controls
A type of control activity. They involve the physical security of assets. They ensure adequate safeguards over access to assets and records.
PSLRA
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1996
Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor
China: programme enabling Chinese insurance companies to invest in oversease securities.
Rule enforced by the SEC requiring U.S. to make available to the public that they make to securities analysts. If the disclosure is intentional the release has to be simultaneous. Unintentional disclosure has to be made available to the public within 24 hours.
RSA Conference
Conference organised every year by security giant RSA.
SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Securities Lending
Lending of securities by one party to another in return for collateral in the form fo cash, government securities or letter of credit. Terms of the loan are governed by a Securities Lending Agreement.
Securities Lending Agreement
Document detailing the terms of a securities lending deal or repurchase agreement (repo).
SIPC
Securities Investors Protection Corporation
TradeSecurity
Provider of security compliance and risk management solutions
TS2
System proprosed by the ECB for a single securities settlements across the Eurozone.
WFI
Supplier of design, deployment and management of wireless communication networks, technology networks and security systems.
Trade Suite / CNS Interface
Application used to streamline trade processing and reduce risk to executing broker and the prime broker. Supplied by National Securities Clearing Corporation
NSCC
National Securities Clearing Corporation
Swaps Pricing Platform
Accessing security quotes generated by broker-dealers that prime brokers use for calculating client's net asset values (NAV). Tool vendor is SQX.
EquiLend
EquiLend is a leading provider of trading services for the securities finance industry. With its robust suite of automated trading tools, EquiLend enables its clients to scale their businesses with great efficiency on a global basis in all securities finance markets. Used by borrowers and lenders throughout the world, the EquiLend platform automates formerly manual trading and post-trade processes. Using EquiLend's complete end-to-end services reduces the risk of potential errors and eliminates the need to maintain costly point-to-point connections while allowing firms to drive down unit costs. Firms can then free more resources to expand their business and grow trading volumes without increasing costs. This makes the EquiLend platform a cost-effective choice for all institutions, regardless of their size.
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Trading Metrics
Trading Metrics (TM) Inc. is a privately held company with venture-backed funding from VantagePoint Partners. The company was founded to help brokers build and deploy latency tracking systems. In 2007, Trading Metrics accepted venture funding to expand its offerings and to address the requirements of the Capital Market sector for a software platform that is quickly deployed, easily expandable and globally available. In 2008, Trading Metrics launched two products: Trading Latency Metrics (TM) to track the speed of trade handling and executions, and Market Latency Metrics(TM) to detect latency in Market Data and data distribution systems. Market Latency Metrics is resold worldwide by Reuters(TM) who markets the solution as Reuters Latency Monitor.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Clearstream
Clearstream is the post trade arm of Deutsche Boerse Group and a leading European supplier of post-trading services. It ensures that cash and securities are promptly and effectively delivered between trading parties. It also manages, safekeeps and administers the euro 11 trillion in assets that it holds on behalf of its customers. Clearstream has around 2,500 customers in over 100 countries and its global network extends across 46 markets. Backed by flexible securities lending and collateral management services, Clearstream offers one of the most comprehensive international securities services available, settling more than 250,000 transactions daily. For more information, visit www.clearstream.com.
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