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The Importance of Adjusting LMAX Market Data by Region

By | October 9th, 2020
LMAX Exchange offers FIX APIs for FX market making and taking in New York, London, and Tokyo. However, the data and the way it should be consumed differs depending on the region it’s taken from. Let’s take an example where a client is interested in seeing a 1,000,000 price in all three regions. In London […]
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20 exchanges added via Fidessa

By | July 15th, 2020
MarketFactory clients can now connect to Fidessa to access almost every single futures and derivative exchange globally. 
Enhancements

MarketFactory now supports CME spread trading

By | July 1st, 2020
MarketFactory customers can now take advantage of spread trading on the CME. All types of spread trading are now supported.
Erkin as Charles Baudelaire
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Pizza & Disclosed Venues

By | June 29th, 2020
Erkin “Baudelaire” Rustamov Here’s our final FX Poem to kindly ask for your vote for the P&L Readers’ Choice Awards…          Pizza & Disclosed Venues          by erustamov@marketfactory.com Everything got put to test, challenging our ability Some passed with flying colors, some lacked connectivityYou picked up new skills in your […]
Eugene dressed as the famous poet John Milton
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The Ides of Covid

By | June 17th, 2020
Eugene “Milton” Markman          The Ides of Covid          by emarkman@marketfactory.com As covid lead to volatility,It put a short on our mobility. We social distanced and joined zoom meetings,For work calls, happy hours, and family greetings. Yet FX remained resilient,And volumes hit levels that were brilliant. As markets move to Bull from Bear,It is now […]
Christian as the famous poet alexander pope
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An Ode to our New Mode

By | June 10th, 2020
Christian “Alexander Pope” Reiss For the last five years, you elected us “Best in Connectivity.” To say thank you, I want to offer you a poem which will hopefully induce a chuckle.          An Ode to a New Mode          by creiss@marketfactory.com Pajamas, bathrobes, online meetings, Kids at home, please […]
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An explanation on this year’s flash events

By | February 26th, 2019
Twice this year (and its only February 25) the FX press shouted, “flash crash!”. Both events merit explanation as they were vastly different. We offer ours. Yen Flash Event – Did the Tail Wag the Dog? What caused the yen flash event? Could it really have been retail-led following a negative revenue announcement by Apple? […]
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10 FX Predictions for 2019

By | January 7th, 2019
Each year James Sinclair, executive chairman and FX veteran, shares his top 10 predictions for foreign exchange. Read this years predictions below:  Fragmentation will continue – and do so in four dimensions. Individual venues are fragmenting and offering additional models of trading, such as full amount. They are also experimenting with clearing, enabled by new […]
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2018 FX Predictions Report Card

By | January 4th, 2019
In December 2017, I published 10 Foreign Exchange Predictions for 2018. Now that 2018 has come to a close, it is time for me to grade myself! Overall, I’m giving myself an A-, only receiving two bad grades! Bitcoin: the truth will be told. Grade = A Bitcoin is now trading at $3,800, about 75% […]
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“Monitoring of Fast-Paced Markets” – some thoughts from the BIS paper

By | October 11th, 2018
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) published a new paper “Monitoring of fast-paced electronic markets” in September 2018. Whilst oriented to central banks’ own needs, it contains fascinating nuggets for us all. Among them are some of their observations on the role of “primary venues”, principally EBS and Thomson Reuters Matching (now a service of […]
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