This two day course explores current market data uses, technical processes and tools. This is accompanied by a detailed description of industry related issues with the intention of building knowledge that assists in better understanding the future prospects for the market data industry.
You will gain an understanding of:
- How financial markets and industry players are adapting to new demands with regards to technologies and trading practices
- The new developments in market data systems, broker feeds, and data aggregation services
- How regulatory upheaval is influencing corporate change and how vendors, market practitioners and marketplaces view the future in regard to data management.
- The range of streaming data services that enable algorithmic trading strategies to achieve a variety of trading objectives
- Execution methods including Direct Market Access, dark books, liquidity pools and crossing networks, and the data challenges and requirements for each
- The importance of market data analytics including performance measurement and an expanding range of execution performance metrics
- How to accurately measure the effectiveness and performance of algorithmic trading tools and to attempt to extend and augment user choice by offering some degree of pre-trade insight into the suitability of alternative trading strategies