Market Deja Vu (Financial Week in Review, Aug. 15-19, 2011)
Break out the chocolate bars; it’s been another rough week for the markets. The major indexes on the NYSE all closed lower on Friday, and slipped further in after-hours trading. They were not alone. Markets all around the globe fell this week. It’s almost as though the week before last is repeating itself. Trading started…
Read MoreIt was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times… (Financial Week in Review, August 8-12, 2011 + Update)
August 15th marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the gold standard in United States currency. On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. would no longer trade dollars for gold. Forty years later, the gold price is $1765.30, after hitting a record high of $1,817.60 on August 11. DOLLAR DIPS…
Read MoreWhat Goes Up Must Come Down (Financial Week in Review, Aug. 1-5, 2011)
The closing bell brought an end to a dramatic week in the markets. Thursday was the worst day for stocks since the beginning of the financial crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a 512-point nosedive, and concerns about the European debt crisis triggered a large-scale sell-off. This news came as a surprise to many…
Read MoreTypes of Trading Solutions and What They Mean to You
Electronic Trading Platforms and Tools Traders use a combination of several tools in their daily routine. These include charting software, pattern-recognition software, risk-analysis tools, currency converters, simulators, etc. These tools can be used independently or can be integrated into a custom online trading platform to save time and effort. Electronic Trading platforms, such as ETNA…
Read MoreTrading socialized
Social media are here to stay. Period. There is no way you can avoid Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin and Foursquare and more and more. Your friends checked-in in a bar and one of them was crowned a Mayor; your @girlfriend bought lettuce; the @person-you-do-not-even-know twitted about a terrible hangover and Lady Gaga released a…
Read MoreWhite Paper: SaaS & SOA in Retail Banking
Global challenges force financial organizations to seek a new technology foundation for business. The combination of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provides ultimate expandability cost effectively and unlimbers organizations for SaaS rapid change. ETNA has introduced an effective way for retail banks to design and redesign business processes using SaaS & SOA in a…
Read MoreWhite Paper: Silverlight Out of Browser
This whitepaper describes programming and design aspects for installation and customization of Silverlight functioning out of browser. With the advent of the latest Silverlight business application-focused enhancements, large-scale interfaces and associated tooling provided by Visual Studio and Expression Studio, a developer is in a position to build this type of application rapidly and enjoy benefits…
Read MoreChoosing OMS
«OMS» or Order Management System is an application developed to execute orders in the fastest and the most efficient way. Order execution is not the only purpose of an OMS, of course, but the most important one. While a lot of worthy OMSs operate in the market, none of them fits all possible requirements hundred- per- cent. What issues should be taken into consideration when a person takes a decision on buying…
Read MoreGrocery Versus your Hotbed
You badly need tomatoes for your ‘Bloody Mary’ today. This is an issue. You can go to a grocery and order them there or build your own hotbed, buy seeds and start growing. This is the choice you have to make when starting on something that requires a couple of lines of code. Or couple…
Read MoreHow to Create a Successful Trading Software
Modern society could hardly be imagined without IT. The Stock Exchange as a part of modern business has not missed the unique opportunity to utilize this new medium being anxious to boost and facilitate trading processes. It goes without saying, speed and quality are crucial in financial world. To meet these requirements modern software vendors…
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