Celoxica, a technology provider of HFT trading solutions announced the launch of its enhanced Futures Trading Platform . The multi asset platform connects with the CME, ICE, LIFFE and EUREX exchanges. Describing the benefits of the latest platform release, Lee Staines, President of Celoxica told Forex Magnates "Our latest upgrade provides our clients with highly efficient trading product for both market data processing and order entry. The new hardware allows for an additional latency reduction as well as an increased throughput, while managing both the market data and order entry on the same FPGA board. Clients will find it easy to integrate our new solution with their current trading strategies due to a standardized shared memory C API across both product types. Also this new API is now supported across all major futures markets in the US and Europe."
When asked about the target users, Staines explained “This new product will help grow our current user base of investment banks, large proprietary trading groups and execution services providers and extend our offerings to hedge funds and smaller proprietary trading groups either directly or through one of our co-location partners.” In regards to the platforms roll for FX trading, Staines added “In this roll out FX users can benefit off the changes on the CME FX markets and fixed income, commodities and equity index products across the derivatives exchanges. In an upcoming roll out we will specifically target the FX-only platforms like EBS, Currenex, Hotspot, FXAll and Reuters."
Celoxica Launches Next Generation CME/ICE and LIFFE/EUREX Trading Platforms for Firms Executing Futures Trading Strategies Celoxica, a leading provider of ultra low latency market data and order entry solutions for high frequency traders, today announced the launch of its next generation hardware-accelerated, Futures trading platform for firms executing low latency trading strategies on futures exchanges. Continued volatility and escalating market volumes in the global futures markets has led to trading firms increasingly seeking to capitalize on short-term disparities between pricing on both the US and European futures markets. Celoxica’s futures trading platform provides a fully optimized, ultra-low latency market data and trade execution platform, with single digit latencies from wire to wire irrespective of market conditions. Based on FPGA technology the trading platform can accelerate market data into trading algorithms and rapidly execute orders, ensuring fills are met across multiple trading strategies including fixed income, commodities and foreign exchange. Celoxica’s FPGA cards are compatible with standard PCIe slots allowing for easy installation as well as increased efficiency achieved through reducing server number and co-location costs. “For Futures trading, processing speed, determinism and throughput continue to play a crucial role in the success of principle trading firms and hedge funds trading on the global futures markets” said Jean Marc Bouhelier, Celoxica’s Chairman and CEO. “Celoxica’s ability to offer next generation systems to address these key technology and business requirements, whilst ensuring costs are minimized, means our clients and partners can increase focus on their trading strategies for CME, ICE, CFE, Liffe US, Liffe and Eurex, knowing they are using the most efficient trading platform for market data and order execution available on the market today”.
