Algorithmic Trading

• Situation: Wall Street Imperative to Deploy Algorithmic Trading
  • In the last 10 years, automated trade flow has gone from 5% to 80%
  • Good algo trading technology and time to market are critical to survival

• Problem: How to Automate?
  • Manual log searching required to understand the business impact of system outages: Which clients affected?
  • Should we suggest they stop trading?

• Solution: StreamBase for Algorithmic Trading
  • Algorithms developed 3-5X faster than if traditional technologies were used like databases or application servers
  • Requires low latency event processing, aggregation, scale

• Business Impact: Algo Trading is Pure Competitive Advantage
  • Top tier broker: deployed StreamBase in 3 months and went from laggard to leader
  • Boston hedge fund: built system in 4 months that would have taken 4 years