WH Trading Selects QuantHouse for its Market Data, Infrastructure Solutions

QuantHouse has had its market data services suite integrated by global proprietary trading firm WH Trading. The partnership will see WH Trading Leverage Leverage In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders Read this Term QuantHouse’s QuantLINK and QuantFEED suite of advanced solutions, handling some of the group’s most important applications.

QuantHouse presently boasts a diverse offering of market data services, algo trading platforms, and infrastructure solutions. Both QuantLINK and QuantFEED provide a range of benefits for the buy- and sell-side, including streamlined trading infrastructures and high-quality market data.

The solutions are currently adopted by multiple trading venues globally, with its end-to-end ultra-low latency market data feed representing an attractive draw for WH Trading. Salloum Abousaleh, Managing Director Americas, QuantHouse, commented: “WH Trading is one of the largest Market Makers Market Makers Market makers or called dealing desk brokers represent a type of broker that internalize flows and are taking the opposite side of a transaction submitted by their clients. The market making broker is only quoting a feed of prices to its clients. These feeds may or may not be the exact same as the prices quoted on the interbank market.Any order a client enters is processed internally and never goes out to the market, except in rare cases where a market making brokerage identifies a client as a v Market makers or called dealing desk brokers represent a type of broker that internalize flows and are taking the opposite side of a transaction submitted by their clients. The market making broker is only quoting a feed of prices to its clients. These feeds may or may not be the exact same as the prices quoted on the interbank market.Any order a client enters is processed internally and never goes out to the market, except in rare cases where a market making brokerage identifies a client as a v Read this Term trading on the global markets. They have also led the field in terms of using only the latest and most advanced technology, whether built in-house or outsourced to third parties.”

For its part, Chicago-based WH Trading will be utilizing QuantLINK to help enable market access and delivery of market data at low latency speeds. As an evolving infrastructure, the QuantLINK network is continually expanded upon to offer the latest and fastest routes available with new exchanges and alternative trading venues.

By extension, QuantFEED will look to handle all relevant upgrades and updates for WH Trading, whereby ensuring improved connectivity routing. “We are seeing increasing demand for quantitative trading tools not only with innovative proprietary trading firms, but also with alternative investments, Hedge Funds, CTAs and asset managers looking to follow in the footsteps of firms such as WH Trading,” explained Mr. Abousaleh.

The technology integration will also help WH Trading expand its market footprint globally. This stance was echoed by Mike Madigan, CTO, WH Trading LLC, who noted: “We look to only deploy technology excellence and believe that trading performance can be mapped to the quality of trading infrastructures in place.

“We use QuantHouse raw exchange connectivity at a number of global exchange venues, and are very pleased with the performance of their direct connectivity offerings. From sales, to engineering, to operations, to support, QuantHouse has supplied us with high quality customer service,” he added.