Trading technologies
McDonnell Takes Over Sales for TT
Trading Technologies (TT), a Chicago-based provider of trading software, has appointed Robbie McDonnell EVP global sales.
Hanweck Taps NYSE Euronext's Watson for Sales Role
New York-based options analytics provider Hanweck Associates has hired Thomas Watson as head of sales.
TT Partners with VeloxPro for Order Book Data Visualization
Trading Technologies has partnered with connectivity and trading solutions provider, VeloxPro, to integrate the firm’s BookMap order-book visualization solution within TT’s execution management system (EMS).
Updata, Trading Technologies Ally for Chart-Trading
Derivatives traders can now execute orders directly from charts and strategy back-testing tools within UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata’s Professional analytics suite, using routing technology from Chicago-based trading software…
Simulation Tools Key as Managed Futures Funds, CTAs Optimize Execution
A potent mixture of in-house, futures commission merchant, and boutique brokerage-provided algorithms now play a part in commodity trading advisors’ and managed futures funds’ trading activities. Tim Bourgaize Murray examines why a new cadre of…
The Rise and Rise of HTML5
Thanks to enhanced browser functionality and an explosion of open-source tools, HTML5 is supplanting Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash as the go-to language for trading application development and mobile functionality. While roadblocks still exist,…
TT Unveils Cloud-based Trading Platform, Will Sunset X_Trader
Trading Technologies International (TT) today unveiled Nextrader, its new trading platform.
New CEO Lane Promises Major Changes at Trading Technologies
Rick Lane left his job as principal architect at Trading Technologies (TT) for Google in 2011. Yesterday, a little more than two years later, he was put in charge of the Chicago-based software vendor, which counts 19 of the world’s top 20 futures brokers…
CTO Rick Lane Assumes CEO Role at Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (TT), a Chicago-based trading software provider, has named CTO Rick Lane as its new CEO, effective immediately. Harris Brumfield, majority owner and CEO for the past 11 years, remains with the company as chairman of the board.
License to Kill: The Complexity of Circuit Breakers
As regulators collaborate to review different concepts to protect the integrity of the US financial markets and reduce potential technology failures, Marina Daras looks at the technical challenges of implementing circuit breakers for brokers and…
TT Goes Live on NLX and Nasdaq OMX Nordic
Trading Technologies (TT) ends the year with another link to exchange gateways, as it announces connections to two Nasdaq derivatives hubs: London-based NLX, and Nasdaq OMX Nordic.
Markham to Head Updata's Houston Office
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has named William Markham senior vice president of business development at of the vendor's new office in Houston, Texas, which is due to open in early 2014 to meet the needs of a growing customer base in…
TT Connects to Nasdaq OMX eSpeed Platform
Trading Technologies International (TT) has announced it will connect to the Nasdaq OMX eSpeed platform in the first quarter of 2014.
Trading Technologies Announces LSEG, Borsa Italiana Links
The provider will introduce connectivity to the London Stock Exchange Group's Derivatives Market in early 2014, which will also provide clients a single gateway into IDEM, the derivatives venue for Borsa Italiana, as well as Norway's Oslo Børs.
TT Unveils MultiBroker Platform
Trading Technologies has launched MultiBroker, the Chicago-based vendor's trading solution that allows buy-side firms to gain direct market access (DMA) via multiple brokers from a single X_Trader Pro or application programming interface (API) connection…
Goldman to Offer TT Hosting to Futures Clients
Goldman Sachs has added TTNet, the hosting solution from Chicago-based Trading Technologies (TT), to its suite of futures trading systems offered to the firm's institutional clients.
Trading Technologies Connects to Eris Exchange
Trading Technologies (TT), a Chicago-based provider of trading software for derivatives traders, has connected to SwapBook, the trading platform of Chicago-based swap futures exchange Eris Exchange.
Trading Technologies Connects to Nasdaq OMX's NLX
The new link to Nasdaq's London-based derivatives market will allow TT's clients to trade in short- and long-term interest rate futures products denominated in either sterling or euro.
Trading Technologies Expands X_Trader Functionality
Trading Technologies has announced that, in addition to adjusting its price bands, its X_Trader Product will be updated with new functionality previously only available in the enhanced edition of the software.
Trading Technologies, MexDer Link Via CME's Globex
Trading Technologies' X-Trader has linked with MexDer, a leading venue for Mexican benchmark derivatives, as activity in the Central American market steadily ramps up.
Trading Technologies Links to GovEx
Trading Technologies (TT) says it will connect with GovEx, a flexible execution platform for US Treasuries and part of State Street's eExchange offering, in the first half of this year.
TT Fills Top Buy-Side Need with Multibroker Solution
For five years, Chicago-based derivatives software vendor Trading Technologies (TT), attempted to adapt its X_Trader derivatives trading platform to incorporate multiple brokers, without success. The technology proved too complicated. Not long ago it…