News, Insight and Events

17 January, 2024

€STR Wars: Attack of the Clones

As €STR continues to grow and gain market share, understanding the liquidity profile of competing €STR futures on ICE, CME and Eurex will be critical for market participants to trade better.

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21 November, 2023

Are spreads the right indicator of liquidity for your investment analysis?

Spreads are important when it comes to stock trading, as the tighter the spread, the more liquid the stock -- so the thinking goes. But simply relying on a stock’s displayed spread can be misleading and cause many institutional investors to miscalculate the true cost of investment. In this article, Tom Jardine, Client Facing Data Scientist, discusses a much more useful measure for investors to gauge liquidity.

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8 November, 2023

Sounding the bell: understanding the closing auction for optimal execution in global equity markets

In this article, we compare and contrast closing auctions across different markets, and discuss how a better understanding can help best execution, signal generation and market structure analysis to achieve optimal trading outcomes.

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3 October, 2023

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

In order to develop effective investment and trading strategies, quantitative or systematic hedge funds require robust infrastructure to carry out extensive research and run complex computation and continuous model calibrations. Our CPO Elliot Banks looks at how hedge funds can level the playing field.

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22 September, 2023

BMLL FINRA Data

BMLL has added FINRA data to its US suite of venues which already includes all major Exchange Groups in the US. Our visualization tool, BMLL Vantage, allows you to break out the FINRA Data and easily navigate the depths of liquidity across the entire US spectrum.

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8 August, 2023

Granular tick data combined with cloud sharing allow for optimized execution analysis

Data is considered to be the new oil. In Capital Markets there is an increasing use of rich granular data to drive sophisticated execution analysis and point of execution, yet deeper levels of data haven’t been easy to obtain. FactSet recently partnered with BMLL to offer granular Level 2 content derived from Level 3 data.

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1 August, 2023

Speaker Interview: Dr Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer, BMLL talks with Quant Strats

An exclusive speaker interview with Dr Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer, BMLL where he discusses the biggest challenges facing data scientists in 2023, the use of ChatGPT by quant funds and how funds can get new systematic strategies into production quickly.

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2 June, 2023

BMLL Market Lens: The View From The Feed | Sector Metrics Edition

A selection of 7 aggregated metrics to better understand the market, including Volatility, TWA Spread, Quote to Trade, Mean Resting Time, Notional Liquidity Around BBO, Fill Probability and Auction Dislocation.

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3 May, 2023

Do you know where your VWAP curve is? A glimpse of the shifting volume profiles in the US before and after the pandemic

During the lockdown period of the pandemic, from March 2020 to February 2022, Investors were more dependent on the morning trading hours, including the open and the hour following. In this article, we looked at the changing landscape of volume curves in the top 500 stocks by market capitalization in the US markets for three periods.

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26 April, 2023

Data & Analytics: The building blocks for differentiation

In the recent Data & Analytics Race webinar moderated by The TRADE, we explored how historical data helps firms gain deeper insights across the trade lifecycle to deploy more sophisticated strategies and gain a trading advantage.

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31 March, 2023

Rolling with the punches | How granular insights enable participants to reduce the cost of trading during the roll

To explore the impact of the roll period, we use the BMLL Data Lab to analyse 45 pairs of WTI outright futures contracts across four years. By comparing Level 1 with Level 3 metrics, we demonstrate how Level 3 metrics provide earlier warnings when rolling occurs in the order book.

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23 March, 2023

Examining the Impact of Increased Market Volatility on US Treasury Bond Trading

In the wake of the collapse of several major US banks, including Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), bond futures markets saw increased activity across March 2023, using BMLL Futures Data, we examine how treasury bond future contracts were impacted.

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