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I am not sure if this is a trend yet. But it’s worth noting. Over the past couple months I have talked with a total of three major energy trading entities that all have one thing in common: Projects to “hide” the ETRM system entirely from their traders. Traders will not use, see, touch or […]
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One of our gripes with trading systems is that sometimes they just can’t properly book certain trade types. Yes, there really are trading systems out there that can’t book Futures. Yes, there really are systems out there that can’t book spread trades, options and an assortment of exchange products upon which traders have already pulled
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We work with A LOT of different systems and run into all kinds of crazy stuff. Feel free to email us your Dumb Things We Saw Today. Here is another gem: We were working with a vendor energy trading system and inputting an exchange Order ID into an Order ID Ref field. Kudos to the
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More discussion and it turned out that this was not actually true. Their hedging approach is to pass all the costs along to their customers in the form of fuel surcharges. They are traditionally “old school” and hate the idea of “being in the fuel business.” So, if prices go up? This company has capped
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Still a ways from final Dodd-Frank Rules. But we can definitely see how they are shaping up. One issue that is certain for all companies engaged in trading: Execution Time. Here’s the issue: We were working with a client using one of the larger ETRM systems. Trades are brought in through a “Quick Fix” custom
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BroadPeak Partners today released the first version of its Exchange Fills Aggregation component for K3. “It’s one of the most irritating problems for trading management. A trader might put out an order for 100 Lots and get 6 fills. So what was once a simple trade has now become 6 trades in the ETRM system,”
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BroadPeak Partners announces K3 can now be used to seamlessly manage price movements from ZEMA, a leading enterprise market data warehouse for energy and commodities. Trading firms relying on ZEMA for market prices can now leverage K3 to manage the distribution of ZEMA data throughout their enterprise. This gives firms a single point of control
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BroadPeak Partners announces a newly added Trayport connection to K3. Firms trading European energy and commodity products can now automatically receive Trayport deals into their native trading systems directly using K3. Trayport allows a single connection to 7 exchanges and 18 brokers operating in the European commodities markets. K3 allows the enterprise to focus on
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