02/11/2006

Access to Bloomberg Data License via traderpath

GATEMate traderpath users can now access more than 4 million financial instruments covering all global capital markets provided via Bloomberg Data License. Nearly 5,000 unique data elements stored in the Bloomberg data warehouse can be retrieved to fuel clients' own internal applications, thus covering: Security Master or Fundamental descriptive data, End of Day Prices, Derived data, Historical Time series and Corporate Action data (available for securities and their issuers). XML-formatted requests and responses are handled by GATEMate traderpath via Websphere MQ queues or TCP/IP connections through C/C++, C# and Java APIs.

02/10/2006

traderpath for the new MTS-CMF Bond market

GATEMate traderpath is going live in production with the new MTS-CMF Bond market, replacing the EBM market now migrated to the new TradeImpact technology. This is the second of a 3-phase process which started with the migration of the MTS Repo Market to the new platform (MMF - 2005) and will eventually affect the MTS-BondVision market (2007). With special focus on market-makers' strict requirements GATEMate traderpath boosts the power of its proprietary quoting engine now complemented by a new generation algorithmic engine for pricing, quoting, trading, hedging and real-time market abuse detection (MAD), combined with super-fast MOM-based market data dissemination and robust integration with middle and back-office systems.

28/09/2006

traderpath with double quotation for MTA market

Waiting for the Borsa Italiana's forthcoming starting up of the new functionalities for Specialists, going live on monday 2 October 2006, the GATEMate traderpath platform now fully supports also the Double Quotation functionality for Liquidity Providers on the MTA International segment of the MTA market.

06/09/2006

algorithmicpath version 1.0 now released

GATE has now released to production Version 1.0 of its new algorithmic trading platform, “algorithmicpath”. This fully scalable solution running under UNIX, LINUX and Windows provides price takers and market makers with a high performance environment for building, testing and running of on-the-fly trading / quoting strategies. “algorithmicpath” is a completely configurable, programmable and easily extensible environment allowing to automatically trade and create markets on all European Exchanges through the “traderpath” DMA platform. It allows fast designing, testing and running of new own strategies in addition to a set of open strategies supplied by GATE in order to capture short-lived market opportunities across different products and/or markets. With it any trader has a fully open system that supports the fast-growing needs for building proprietary trading and market making models by means of its easy-to-learn rule-based events-actions paradigm and avoiding a closed set of strategies provided by software vendors and sold all around to other actors in the markets.

07/03/2006

traderpath for the IDeM market version 18.2

GATEMate traderpath has successfully passed all conformance tests for the Italian Derivatives Market (IDeM) - OMX version 18.2 managed by the Italian Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana). Full support is now provided for the definition and trading of Tailor Made Combinations (TMC), i.e. daily strategies defined by market operators during the whole trading session. Quoting and trading functionalities are complemented by algorithmic trading via algorithmicpath, STP via dealpath and FIX Sell-Side access to the IDeM market via fixpath.