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FrontRunner™ suite
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Object Trading’s FrontRunner
suite is core infrastructure for the global management and development of
electronic trading systems. Product suite components include:
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Key Benefits
The FrontRunner server suite architecture seamlessly integrates screen trading, program trading
and risk management client applications with multiple pools of liquidity.
- Performance – response times for pricing and orders are continuously benchmarked to ensure industry best execution speeds
- Throughput – hundreds of orders and thousands of price updates per second
- Reliability and availability – 24x7 trading with failover options
- Scalability – multi-processor support for many multiples of clients, thousands of subscriptions
- Flexibility – multiple APIs (FIX, Java, COM, C++, .NET)
- Quality of Service – module for monitoring straight through processing times of all components
- Customisation and flexibility through API, trade execution server and business rules engine
- Added value functionality – shared order books, synthetic order execution, customisable order behaviour, automated trading strategies
The FrontRunner suite has been built on the Microsoft development and
deployment industry-standard platforms to simplify support and enhance deployment opportunities.
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FrontTrade
Order management server with key features and benefits including:
- shared order book management and transfers
- multi-user and group management
- unified order capabilities across all counterparties and exchanges
- synthetic and contingent order management
- scalable from single user through whole trading desks and organisations
- supports order flow from multiple sources to multiple execution venues
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FrontPrice
Price server with key features and benefits including:
- high-speed price download and delivery to multiple trading clients
- selectable forms of transport, from peer-to-peer guaranteed message delivery, through 3 levels of broadcast and multi-cast
- scalable "daisy-chaining" of FrontPrice servers to service offices remote from exchange gateways
- stream and snapshot pricing at individually selected levels of data
- subscription mechanism to ensure only prices of interest are transmitted
- choice of direct market data, or reference data from a choice of data vendors (including Reuters, Bloomberg, Futuresource etc).
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FrontGate
Remote access gateway solution supporting multiple trading clients and order
sources safely and securely from the internet:
- bridges firewalls and DMZs
- 3DES encrypted
- 8:1 compression
- Facilitates teleworking and trading away from the office
- Simplifies deployment of servers and trading clients such as Eccoware
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FrontRunner API
A rich proprietary API (COM,
Java, C++, .NET) allowing for seamless integration with existing infrastructure
and third party components. Key benefits include flexibility, tight integration
and speed. FrontDoor also supports open industry standards such as the FIX
protocol for rapid integration with other systems.
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FrontRunner Execution Server
The FrontRunner flagship product is
a key environment for the development of sophisticated trade strategy and order
execution applications:
- Complex order and strategy execution
- Automation
- Alerting and actioning of complex deal execution
- Custom execution and placement policies
- Intuitive (end user maintainable) business rules capture and support using a rules engine
- New product development, testing and deployment platform
- Single, consistent generic business level interface
- Wide range of applications (spreading, baskets, market making, arbs, in-server system trading etc)
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