Considering the Senate’s passage of the Dodd-Frank Act and new oversight of the high frequency space- the Circuit Breaker Rule and overall message rate restrictions- traders must adapt their strate
Considering the Senate’s passage of the Dodd-Frank Act and new oversight of the high frequency space- the Circuit Breaker Rule and overall message rate restrictions- traders must adapt their strategies to thrive in increasingly regulated markets. To make things even more difficult, due to last year’s high frequency trading boom, the arena has become flooded and consequently alpha has become compressed. Now more than ever, competitive advantage is hard to attain. Only by maximizing their firms’ computational powers and reframing the idea of high frequency trading- not as an end in itself but as a method for achieving trading objectives- can traders truly gain the necessary edge.
DISCOVER BEST APPROACHES FOR:
• Explain HFT’s myths, realities, benefits, and complications/costs
• Assess HFT’s growth and impact on liquidity in a fragmented market
• Unravel the compliance implications of high frequency trading
• Analyze flash trading and naked access as they relate to competitive advantage
• Define high frequency trading outside of the equities space
• Establish how to adapt a high frequency approach to futures, options, and fx
• Explore arbitrage opportunities for high frequency traders outside of equities
• Determine system requirements and overcoming start-up barriers
• Evaluate the best proximity and hosting solutions
• Generate alpha: execution requirements and necessary oversight
• Examine server set-up, operating systems and application monitoring speed
• Move black-box strategies into collocation facilities
• Laser-in on the role of algorithms in optimizing high frequency trading
• Dissect feed handlers, messaging middleware, and smart order routing
• Leverage high performance data bases and best usage
• Identify key focus areas, players, and trends high performance infrastructure
Who Should Attend
Type of Organizations:
• Institutional Investment Firms
• Asset Management Firms
• Hedge Funds
• Pension Funds
• Wealth Management Firms
• Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs)
• Endowments
• Foundations
CEOs, Head Traders, Portfolio Managers; Senior Executives/Heads of:
• Trading, Trading Operations, Trading Services, Sales Trading
• Alternative Execution
• Portfolio Management, Portfolio Strategy
• Electronic Execution, Electronic Trading, Trading Technology
• Equities
• Quantitative Strategies
• Applications
• Connectivity
• Dealing
• FIX Connectivity
• Global Trading
• Investment/Investment Operations
• IT
• Options
• Private Banking
• Program Trading
