MORRIS2001
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I've been involved in this side for around 7 years directly, but before that I was originally facinated in the mechanisms for spread betting firms to route hedges electronically into clearing brokers and how these hubs operated.
Obviously, in the last 5 years FX has grown as an asset class amongst traders and with this has come more up to date and advanced trading platforms and solutions from outside of the UK, including FIX APIs.
What I'm particularly interested in are the various reasons people look to automate their trading?
Obviously traders tend to split into various groups, some which overlap, some all inclusive and others with no relationship.
One of these group splits is people who run their own trading systems v people who will follow a 3rd party system. Whether this is just chatting amongst people or a full blown system electronically delivered etc, but when people follow then I can see that automation can be of use as there are likely to be others following and automation get's you in ahead of them. Likewise, with some system builders the speed at which a signal appears and needs to be executed can be a strong driver towards automating.
But I'd be interested in seeing if there are other drivers from traders?
Thanks,
Tim.
Obviously, in the last 5 years FX has grown as an asset class amongst traders and with this has come more up to date and advanced trading platforms and solutions from outside of the UK, including FIX APIs.
What I'm particularly interested in are the various reasons people look to automate their trading?
Obviously traders tend to split into various groups, some which overlap, some all inclusive and others with no relationship.
One of these group splits is people who run their own trading systems v people who will follow a 3rd party system. Whether this is just chatting amongst people or a full blown system electronically delivered etc, but when people follow then I can see that automation can be of use as there are likely to be others following and automation get's you in ahead of them. Likewise, with some system builders the speed at which a signal appears and needs to be executed can be a strong driver towards automating.
But I'd be interested in seeing if there are other drivers from traders?
Thanks,
Tim.
