AlgoCore Platform

The AlgoCore Platform allows companies to create, test and go live with any possible trading algorithm in a matter of weeks, rather the previous standard of many months. This is made possible by the fusion of custom application development and a robust architecture designed to handle complex mathematical and order requests with ease.
Every AlgoCore license comes with a fixed-fee, strategy-based consulting quote that implements a trading firm’s business logic and as added bonus, marries a custom graphical user interface (GUI) to each respective strategy.

AlgoTrade’s first product launched under the platform is tCore, an application written to Trading Technologies International, Inc.’s (TT) XTAPI. The tCore solution runs in tandem with TT’s X_TRADER^®, auto-executing a user’s algorithms with the orders, fills and profit & loss all being readily visible in the popular MD Trader interface^®. 

Traders can manually trade with the automated tCore strategy, comprising a grey box solution, or let it run unattended in a pure black box scenario. In both instances, the lowest latency execution is achieved by going through the native TT XTAPI high-speed exchange gateways. Firms can also utilize AlgoTrade’s Pro-Host tCore solution to achieve the utmost performance in fill times.

AlphaScan

AlphaScan allows users to test their strategies against real time and historical market conditions before putting them into action. This invaluable trading tool grants clients insight into the effectiveness of an idea, without risking funds in a trading account.

The platform contains its own tick server that can read varied sources of market data, which is then normalized in order to provide optimal outcomes. AlphaScan is designed to use intraday bid/ask prices to backtest short-term models as well as longer overnight strategies. This feature provides support for complex messaging structures such as time series data, event data and bar interval data.

Additionally, AlphaScan utilizes brute force optimization for more detailed results—an advanced technique used to examine every possible combination of market variables that affect a system’s profitability. These results and metrics are then fully customizable to the client’s liking – delivered in CSV, SQLite or SQL server formats.

A key differentiator of AlphaScan is that once a trading model has been validated from a profitability standpoint, users can then use the same application to execute live orders—eliminating the redundancy of coding into both the backtester and order entry application.

Pro-Host

In the world of high-frequency trading, a millisecond second may as well be a year. Many times, microseconds can make all the difference if an order gets filled or not. AlgoTrade's Pro-Host solution reduces latency by linking closer to the markets, shaving off precious microseconds and rising to the challenge of automated trading.

This advanced service allows financial firms to implement their algorithmic trading systems and hardware as close as physically possible to market data feeds. Our architecture was designed to provide the quickest path between your execution platforms and the major futures, equities, and options exchanges.