Algorithmic Trading Market Insights

Here's an attempt to describe the Algo Trading business in layman's terms. Online trading platforms: There is a large number of online trading platforms that provide easy, standardized access to historical data (via RESTful APIs) and real-time data (via socket streaming APIs), and also offer trading and portfolio features (via programmatic APIs).
Of course, some programmers will want to program their own backtesting and execution platform - that is what I did 20 some years ago, before I realized it was better in the long run to just use an established platform (I have used Tradestation for over 15 years.



The success of market making basically is sustained through (p. 323) real-time market price observation, since dealers with more timely information about the present market price can set up quotes in a more exact manner and so generate a thinner bid-ask spread through an increased number of executed trades.
For example, the volatility triggered by the mysterious rogue trade on 6 May was exacerbated by the fact that some venues, like the New York Stock Exchange, had so-called ‘circuit breakers' that automatically suspend trading when a certain level of volatility is reached, while others did not.

In a statement to an SEC panel, Jeff Engelberg, a senior trader at US mutual fund Southeastern Asset Management which has $35bn (€22.7bn) of assets under management, complained about the advent of firms engaged in low latency, colocated, active trading strategies that require little or no fundamental knowledge of underlying securities.
To define, describe, and forecast the algorithmic trading market by component (platforms and software tools), service (professional services and managed services), trading type (Foreign Exchange FOREX, stock markets, Exchange-Traded Fund ETF, bonds, cryptocurrencies, and others commodities, assets, Credit Default Swaps CDS, Interest Rate Swaps IRS, and collateral mortgage), deployment mode (cloud and on-premises), organization size (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises SMEs and large enterprises), and region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific APAC, Latin America, and Middle East and Africa MEA).

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In APAC, the highest growth rate can be attributed to the heavy investments made by private and public sectors for enhancing their trading technologies, resulting in an increased demand for algorithmic trading solutions used for automating the trading process.
Fragmentation of investors' order flow has occurred in U.S. equity markets since the implementation of the Regulation of Exchanges and Alternative Trading Systems (p. 319) (Reg ATS) in 2000, followed by the 2005 implementation of the Regulation National Market System (Reg NMS).

Since then, the SEC as well as European federal regulators have promoted dialogue with practitioners and academics in order to evaluate key issues related to algorithmic trading (IOSCO2011; SEC 2010a ; European Commission 2011 ). Discussion is still trading automated intense, with supporters highlighting the beneficial effects for market quality and adversaries alert to the increasing degree of computer-based decision making and decreasing options for human intervention as trading speed increases further.
The on-site examinations of the seven AIs, mainly international banks using algorithms for making investment decisions, were conducted following a survey by the HKMA which found (among other things) that around 40% of the AIs surveyed were engaging in algo trading and that a majority of such AIs were intending to expand the scale of their algo trading.