Ahead of the tape

From The Economist print edition
INVENTORS of trading algorithms—computer programs that generate buy and sell orders and make lightning-quick trades—have picked up a bit of timeless wisdom from the stock operators of old. “The best of all tipsters,” Edwin Lefèvre wrote in a 1923 fictional account of the markets, “is the tape.”
As the time taken to [...]

ActiveCare Network Selects AptSoft’s CEP technology

ACN identifies complex event processing (CEP) as key technology to support a paradigm shift in the way chronic biologics are managed.
ActiveCare Network (ACN), the nation’s largest and first nationally integrated service network for administering chronic infusible and injectable medications, has chosen AptSoft Director™ for CEP to support its nationwide service network.
ACN provides control and accountability [...]

Apama Partners with Dow Jones: CEP Applied to Elementized News in Financial Trading

from the Apama blog
What is “elementized news?” Dow Jones has added XML tags to their electronically distributed news stories that describe the semantics, or sentiment, of the news. The tags describe things like: is positive news? Negative? Earnings up? Earnings Down? Better than analysts estimates? Worse? And so on. Since trading began, [...]

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