Trading: Answers to the problem with FX

Last month’s cover story received a lot of feedback. It seems sell side is in a state of flux and running scared of algorithmic trading.

The FX debate – a response from RBS March 2006

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It seems that participants in the foreign exchange market have a slightly different view of algorithmic trading to those in other asset classes and products. Generally, algorithmic trading in cash equities and futures refers to a type of programme trade designed to achieve better execution. FX players seem to use the term to describe most aspects of programme trading but especially arbitrage in the form of what used to be disparagingly referred to as sniping.

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