July 2014 By Iqbal Brainch, Chief Marketing Officer, Advantage Futures As electronic trading has grown over the past decade, so have the number of front-end trading platforms. Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) have carved out a niche to meet the needs of today’s sophisticated traders. Advantage
Inside Advantage Winter 2018
The Advantage Futures quarterly magazine provides informative articles on top industry news and developments, as well as Advantage Futures updates, seminar recaps, and upcoming events. View the latest issues by clicking the related links below, and receive your own copy by signing up for Advantage News.
Hybrid Consulting
Maximizing Your Technology Investment
July 2014 By David Widerhorn, CEO, David Widerhorn Consulting LLC Let’s face it: today’s futures markets aren’t what they were two decades ago – or even two years ago. The buzz-words “high frequency” and “algo” have gone from being a part of obscure conversation topics
Metals
Portfolio Analytics and Future Scenarios
May 2014 By Blu Putnam, Chief Economist and Samantha Azzarello, Economist, CME Group All examples in this report are hypothetical interpretations of situations and are used for explanation purposes only. The views in this report reflect solely those of the authors and not necessarily those of CME Group
In-House [Im]PROP[er] Trading
Proceed with Caution, By Ginger Szala
May 2014 MF Global is one of the more blatant examples of the danger of banks and brokers engaging in proprietary trading while also servicing client trading. In that case, monies from once seemingly secure customer segregated funds on the futures commission merchant side of the business were
