Former FXCM Institutional Sales Head Joins Algo Trading Firm Deltix

Paulina Alenkina, the former Head of Institutional Sales & Trading for Eastern Europe at FXCM PRO and Fastmatch, has joined Deltix. The company has been committed to delivering trading technology which enables research and development of advanced quantitative research strategies.

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Alenkina has taken the position of Director of Business Development at the Algo Trading Algo Trading Algo trading, sometimes referred to as algo, may be defined as computerized trading that employs proprietary algorithms or pre-programmed commands that are tailored to take into consideration variables like price, volume, and timing. First introduced in American financial markets in the 1970s, algo-trading is generally utilized in trading scenarios such as arbitrage, trend trading strategies, and order execution. Approximately 60% of all trades were executed by computers in 2010. Today, algo tra Algo trading, sometimes referred to as algo, may be defined as computerized trading that employs proprietary algorithms or pre-programmed commands that are tailored to take into consideration variables like price, volume, and timing. First introduced in American financial markets in the 1970s, algo-trading is generally utilized in trading scenarios such as arbitrage, trend trading strategies, and order execution. Approximately 60% of all trades were executed by computers in 2010. Today, algo tra Read this Term company, capitalizing on her vast experience at FXCM and Fastmatch, where she spent 4 years.

Before joining the institutional business of FXCM, Alenkina worked for two years as a senior sales associate at the brokerage. She was developing business relationships with clients from the U.S. and Russia.

The new venture where Alenkina just started working according to an update on her LinkedIn profile is Deltix. The company provides several products for identifying trading opportunities and trading them.

Deltix supports a multitude of asset classes including Equities Equities Equities can be characterized as stocks or shares in a company that investors can buy or sell. When you buy a stock, you are in essence buying an equity, becoming a partial owner of shares in a specific company or fund.However, equities do not pay a fixed interest rate, and as such are not considered guaranteed income. As such, equity markets are often associated with risk.When a company issues bonds, it’s taking loans from buyers. When a company offers shares, on the other hand, it’s selling pa Equities can be characterized as stocks or shares in a company that investors can buy or sell. When you buy a stock, you are in essence buying an equity, becoming a partial owner of shares in a specific company or fund.However, equities do not pay a fixed interest rate, and as such are not considered guaranteed income. As such, equity markets are often associated with risk.When a company issues bonds, it’s taking loans from buyers. When a company offers shares, on the other hand, it’s selling pa Read this Term, futures, options and FX. The company’s solutions focus on the complete life cycle of a trade - from data collection and aggregation, via model development, back-testing, optimization, simulation, and deployment to production trading.

The main products of Deltix are QuantOffice and QuantServer. The first is focused on the development, back-testing and optimization of trading ideas. Traders can create their strategies by using market data (Level 2, Level 1 tick, intra-day and daily data), fundamental and digitized news.

QuantOffice is the trading software company’s solution for deploying the strategies to the market by translating the trading conditions into FIX orders, which are executed on a direct market access (DMA) basis.