Fast just got faster at Horizon Software.
Horizon, a provider of global low-latency algorithmic trading solutions, announced it has upgraded its trading platform to version 2.1. The latest iteration features faster throughput, reduces platform latency and now includes trading strategies for equity and equity derivatives desks, such as Delta One, options trading and customer flow.
“We base our development on extensive and ongoing feedback from clients, which allows us to deliver exactly what the market needs,” said Jean-Marc Delfarguiel, chief executive of Horizon.
The new version also provides several compliance tools, which will now allow clients to meet market-making obligations anywhere in the world and includes regulatory safeguards such as anti-self-matching, short-sell tagging and throttling limitations.
Version 2.1 is designed and optimized to eliminate or reduce database access and thread switching, by making extensive use of lock-free structures and minimal object creation, thereby avoiding possible sources of latency and contention.
The system uses the latest Java technology, enabling better scalability, enabling the platform to cope with the massive amounts of real-time data resulting from automated market-making and trading. Being one of the contributors to the atdl4j open source project, Horizon’s connectivity is quick to adapt to new execution algos, leveraging the FIXatdl standard.
