OTAS Blog

  • Market Commentary
  • New Product Features
  • Function Of The Week
  • Reports
  • Quantitative Developers
  • About us

Preparing for MIFID II – Systematic Trade Scheduling

Posted by Ben Lock on March 23, 2017
Posted in: Function Of The Week.

Under MIFID2, executing traders will be accountable for every aspect of a client order and for ensuring that a firm’s best execution policies are implemented. Ultimately, this means demonstrating the ability to record a consistent, compliance-approved process of why each decision was made.
OTAS helps traders achieve this via a simple 2-step process using the Trade Schedule and Intraday Lingo applications. Traders can copy, store and send the analysis from both apps to satisfy the desk, compliance and clients.

In our previous Function of the Week, we demonstrated how traders can optimize an entire order pad and distribute high and low touch orders based on exceptional trading characteristics and workflow scenarios. This week we concentrate on the individual orders that comprise an order pad, focusing on the initial stage of the execution process,  Strategy selection and Implementation.

The Trade Schedule component offers traders proprietary pre-trade order analysis using quantitative forecasts of stock risk(volatility), impact cost and total expected trade costs for their order size across a range of benchmark strategies. This includes our own Optimal schedule and provides justifiable decision making evidence for strategy selection and best execution processes. Each order schedule can be optionally tailored to an individual clients needs by presenting revised cost calculations based on the clients level of risk aversion.

Once a strategy is selected and implemented it is then dynamically monitored in real-time, continually calculating suggested participation rates to account for changing market conditions and execution fill data throughout the life of the trade.

Key Benefits of OTAS Trade Schedule:

  • Demonstrating ‘best possible results’ on an on-going, consistent, systematic basis.
  • Variable cost output forecasts based on individual client risk appetite/trading style.
  • Justification of pricing decisions for OTC risk trades.
  • Dynamic in-trade monitoring of schedule suitability(decision support for adjusting participation)
  • Multi stage analysis of order execution process

Example: Schedule forecasts to Buy 200k Siemens

A large majority of our EMS partners now have the OTAS Schedule component along with risk, impact and total cost forecast columns directly embedded into their trading platforms, meaning their clients are already benefiting from fully integrated, optimizable execution processes.

Example : Blotter view optimized by ‘riskiest’ orders

Trade Schedule analysis is just one of a suite of bespoke real-time trading applications we have created to help Global Trading desks provide a systematic approach and facilitate ‘sufficient steps’ under the guidelines and framework of MIFID II.

Contact us now to explore the current apps available within your EMS and how we can assist your current execution policy or technology mandate at otassales@otastech.com

Posts navigation

← Preparing for MIFID II – Optimising your Order pad
Preparing for MIFID II – In-Trade Analysis supporting Best Execution →
  • Recent Posts

    • Navigating Event Risk
    • Data Rules, OK !
    • Carrefour : The not-so super, market
    • Tracking and Auditing Traders’ Decision-Making
    • Intraday Screener – Identifies which orders need a bit more TLC
  • Archives

    • October 2017
    • September 2017
    • July 2017
    • June 2017
    • May 2017
    • April 2017
    • March 2017
    • January 2017
    • December 2016
    • November 2016
    • October 2016
    • September 2016
    • August 2016
    • July 2016
    • June 2016
    • May 2016
    • April 2016
    • March 2016
    • February 2016
    • January 2016
    • December 2015
    • November 2015
    • October 2015
    • September 2015
    • August 2015
    • July 2015
    • June 2015
    • May 2015
    • April 2015
    • March 2015
    • February 2015
    • January 2015
    • December 2014
    • November 2014
    • October 2014
    • September 2014
  • Authors

    Simon Maughan
    Simon
    Maughan
    Ben Lock
    Ben
    Lock
    OTAS Tech
    OTAS
    Tech
    Hugo Martay
    Hugo
    Martay

    Alex
    Bates

    James
    Whitehead
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Parament by Automattic.