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UCL Algorithmic Trading Platform & UCL Algo. Trading Competition 2010. UCL, Department of Computer Science, UK PhD Centre in Financial Computing Michal Galas [ m.galas@cs.ucl.ac.uk ] Dr Daniel Brown [ d.brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk ]. Contents List. Goals & Drives Beneficiaries
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UCL Algorithmic Trading Platform & UCL Algo. Trading Competition 2010 UCL, Department of Computer Science, UK PhD Centre in Financial Computing Michal Galas [ m.galas@cs.ucl.ac.uk ] Dr Daniel Brown [ d.brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk ]
Contents List • Goals & Drives • Beneficiaries • Trading Competition 2010 • State of the Art • Technology • Architecture & Information Flows • Accounts and Tradable Assets • Developing & Trading with the ATP
Goals & Drives • An algorithmic trading framework with stability and simplicity of development, and state of the art technology. • To allow students and others to develop their own trading strategies and gain real algo. trading experience. • To assess, measure and evaluate Risk.
Goals & Drives • To allow researchers involved in the project to research, develop, test and improve their own ideas. • To allow interested parties in evaluation of performance and risk of student’s trading models, based on available statistics.
Beneficiaries • Students – can study and practice the Algo. Trading techniques. • Researchers – can test their ideas in the sub-fields of Algo. Trading such as Smart Order Routing, Pricing, Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization etc… • Lecturers – can access a tool allowing teaching of elements of Algo. Trading and evaluate students’ work. • Banks and (hedge) funds – can access statistical data of students and evaluate their skills, which assists recruitment and talent-filtration process. • The industry can be supplied with better models to evaluate risk.
UCL Algo. Trading Competition 2010 • Schedule • The registration stage starts on the 1st Aug 2010 • The development stage starts on the 15th Oct 2010 • The trading stage starts on the 15th Nov 2010 • More information on: http://vtp.cs.ucl.ac.uk/competition2010/
State of the Art Cisco’s Trading Floor Architecture
Technology Platform Technologies • J2SE, J2EE • C# & F# • QuickFIX • Apache Software Foundation • Esper (C.E.P.) • Hibernate • Linux Supporting Technologies • MATLAB • NAG • R • TA-Lib • Weka
Accounts and Tradable Assets • Tradable Assets: • Trading Technologies • Futures • Options • Hotspot FX (Knight) • Forex • Fortis • Equities • Account types: • Production • Simulation
Developing & Trading with the ATP API & remote access to services Strategy performance; measures, risk and visualization Charting interface Security and safety of strategies