How our Level 3 Data works for Systematic Hedge Funds

Enhancing Systematic Trading Workflows

BMLL, the leading historical data specialist, provides Level 1, 2, and 3 market data and analytics for Equities, ETFs, Futures and Options to the capital markets. BMLL's high-quality dataset removes the cost and labour-intensive burden of data collection, management, storage, and analytics generation, enabling firms to focus on value-additive tasks such as generating trading strategies, optimising executions, and market structure research.

How BMLL Datasets Enhance Workflows
  • Develop and optimise trading strategies: Full-depth order book data containing trade information, including trade flags, classification, and market state information, enable traders to generate new or improve existing trading ideas.

  • Independently validate market data feeds: Coverage across Global Equities, ETFs, Futures, and Options combined with a harmonised data schema enables quant research teams to independently validate their internal market data feeds.

  • Conduct insightful market microstructure research: Granular market datasets and analytics combined with a rich documentation library and robust research tooling enable researchers to conduct insightful research efficiently.

  • Enhance execution analysis: A normalised view of all trades across venues and mechanisms with trade IDs enables traders to benchmark trade performance effectively.

  • Improve surveillance workflows: A harmonised view of market activity and a record of every order, with order IDs, enables surveillance teams to contextualise spurious orders with prevailing market conditions.
BMLL Data Coverage

BMLL collects, harmonises, stores and manages data.

  • Venues – 100+ trading venues across Primary venues, MTFs and TRFs

  • Asset Class – ETFs, Equities, Futures and Equity Options (OPRA)

  • Geography – Global coverage across all major developed markets 99% of the MSCI World Index ADV.

How BMLL Products Support Systematic Hedge Funds

BMLL Data Feed

High-quality Level 3, 2, and 1 historical datasets and analytics (trades & quotes)

  • Data and analytics derived from Level 3 historical order books.

  • Delivered via API, SFTP, S3, Snowflake and kdb+ to client production systems

  • Fully-managed datasets significantly reduce the time to insight.

BMLL Data Lab

A Python research environment

  • Cloud-based environment providing scalable computing and research tooling.

  • Access to a library of all BMLL’s datasets and analytics.

  • Pre-configure data Infrastructure scales internal data science capabilities.

BMLL Vantage

Powerful market microstructure visualisation tool

  • Access all BMLL-derived analytics and datasets.

  • Simple charting tool enables insights to be generated easily.

  • Intuitive no-code data analysis provides granular insights immediately.

See our full data coverage here.

CASE STUDY: To learn how Aleto (formerly Magma Capital Funds) utilised the BMLL product suite, click here.

ARTICLE: How to compete in a complex landscape: Unleashing the power of big data for start-up hedge funds, click here.

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