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Black Box Trading
Sophisticated Market Technology to Support Your Business
 
Market interest in automated black box trading and algorithmic trading has grown immensely over the last several years as institutions seek to automate their own trading ideas and strive for more efficient and competitive trading strategies.

NWT Financial Group introduces high-volume institutional clients, hedge funds, banks and proprietary trading groups to independent third-party programmers that can assist your institution with all of your black box trading needs: black box hosting, black box programming, algorithmic strategy development, strategy automation and back testing in the global equities and derivatives markets.

Our independent third-party programmers can greatly condense the time to create and implement new trading strategies enabling you to remain focused on your core business - managing investments:

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  • Back-testing the strategy
  • Coding the software and strategy
  • Black Box Hosting services
Black Box Hosting
Host your own box trading system interfaced with real-time quotes and order entry through our comprehensive affiliate EMS provider network.
 
NWT's affiliate hosting services give your group access to a vast array of quality programming and infrastructure that has been optimized for efficiency. Execution latency is minimized with our direct connections to all major ECNs, including ARCA, Inet, EDGX and BRUT, plus direct access to MLX for listed exchanges.
 
API Integration Processing
Streamlining the trading process involves a genuine understanding of our client’s strategy, analysis, identification, placement and execution of orders that are formulated to meet pre-defined trading goals. NWT Financial Group is distinguished by our consultative approach and aspiration to truly understand the specific needs of our clients and to understand their core business, so that we can introduce our clients to the appropriate third-party affiliate programmers that can customize their algorithms or create new ones to fit their specific needs.

Townsend Analytics Application Programming Interface (API)

With the Townsend Toolkit Application Programming Interface, your in house software developers can gain access to all the tools they need to connect your proprietary applications to Townsend Analytics’ real-time financial data servers to retrieve a wide variety of price and news data. Developers also have the ability to link applications to the advanced order entry capabilities of the RealTick® trading platform using the RealTick Scripting Interface.

With the TAL Toolkit Application Programming Interface (API) and the documentation provided on this Web site, software developers can gain access to all the tools they need to write custom applications to connect to Townsend Analytics’ real-time financial data servers to retrieve price and news data, and to link applications directly to our order entry system, creating the potential for seamless black-box trading solutions using RealTick-based technology.

TAL Toolkit applications can be written using our .NET interface. Also available for TAL Toolkit applications are a standard Win32 DLL and a COM DLL for retrieving price and news data, and a COM automation interface to RealTick. Please refer to the FAQ for additional information.

TAL Toolkit applications are used by third-party software providers, black-box traders, hedge funds, analysts, individuals, and many more. We encourage you to explore this site, and contact us to find out how the TAL Toolkit can work for you!

Our independent third-party programmers understand intellectual property rights and respect the proprietary nature of trading strategies and have gone to great lengths to create proper contractual mechanisms to assure confidentiality and protect the client’s strategy. Given the ever-evolving nature of equities and derivatives markets, we feel that speed is crucial in getting an automated strategy into the market. The involvement of our partners and developers who possess electronic trading experience ensures that the launch of the new program is smooth and expeditious, utilizing the appropriate specialists.

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For more information regarding NWT's high touch execution services, please contact us +1 425 295 0400 or via email at institutions@nwtfinancialgroup.com.
 
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