Tag: analytics

August 15, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CBOE launches first in series of social media-based strategy benchmark indexes

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that it has launched the CBOE-SMA Large Cap Index (SMLC Index), the first of a series of sentiment-based strategy benchmark indexes that measure short-term market momentum based on Social Market Analytics’ (SMA) social media metrics. CBOE announced in June that it entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with SMA…

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June 07, 2016 BY Mike Fox

6 new trader analytics measurements released on FX Junction

FX Junction, the largest open social network for Forex traders announced it has released several new trader analytics indicators. FX Junction now offers six new analytics to measure trader’s performance. Effective immediately, FX Junction members with a linked MT4 account can analyze their own performance as well as other trader’s performance with the following new powerful indicators: Relative Drawdown, Maximum Drawdown, Sharpe…

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February 25, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Bloomberg Tradebook adds in-trade functionality to Strategy Analyzer product

Bloomberg Tradebook, Bloomberg's global agency brokerage business, today announced the addition of In-Trade functionality to its award-winning Strategy Analyzer (STAZ) product. STAZ combines the breadth of Bloomberg’s data and analytics with Tradebook's proprietary predictive models to help traders evaluate and adjust their trading strategies in real-time to achieve better execution results. This enhancement to STAZ…

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December 14, 2015 BY Mike Fox

RavenPack names Marc Pandolfi Global Director of Sales & Marketing

RavenPack, the leading provider of Big Data Analytics for financial applications, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc Pandolfi to the position of Global Director of Sales & Marketing. Marc’s appointment reflects both the growth in RavenPack and in the demand for its market-leading structured news and social media data and analysis. Marc is…

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April 07, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Software firm 4th Story introduces liquidity provider analytics tools for FX

San Francisco based 4th Story has introduced this week new tools to give Forex brokers and traders valuable insight into their liquidity providers’ pricing. Dubbed 4S.Rocky Mountain, the tools provide detailed analytics of spreads, depth, relative book position and other metrics and display changes in the quote book history. Collecting, manipulating and analyzing the vast…

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