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CQG Contact:
Josh Passman
212.279.3115 x. 203
jpassman@cjpcom.com
Edge Financial Technologies Contact:
Frank Aldama
312.235.3205
frank.aldama@edgefinite.com
Edge Financial Technologies Joins CQG Certified API Partner Program
Denver, CO, November 16, 2010 – CQG, Inc., the industry-leading order execution, chart- ing, and analytics provider for global, electronically-traded securities, today announced that Edge Financial Technologies has joined the CQG CertifiedAPI Partner Program.
“Edge Financial Technologies brings a wide range of custom development experience to the API Partner Program,” said Yuriy Shterk, Vice President of Product Development at CQG. “Customers will benefit from Edge Financial’s ability to deliver tailored solutions addressing specific trading strategy requirements while also taking advantage of CQG’s powerful hosted trading infrastructure and robust global market data feed.”
Edge Financial Technologies specializes in creating trading solutions for strategies across a wide range of asset classes, including derivatives, foreign exchange, and equities. With a strong focus on low-latency performance and reliability, the firm leverages experience with an extensive set of software development languages to build applications for trad- ers seeking tools for automated trading, market analysis, and risk management. Edge Financial’s services extend beyond customsoftware development to system architecture, management, and QA/testing.
“We are excited to be part of CQG’s developer community,” said Jitesh Thakkar, Founder and President of Edge Financial Technologies. “Edge Financial’s experience in building low-latency algorithmic trading strategies combined with CQG’slow-latency platform will provide a powerful combination to our joint customers.”
The CQG Client APIs offer solutions for customers needing the most reliable data, power- ful analytics, and ultra-low-latency trading. CQG’s Data and Trading APIs are available as part of the company’s flagship product, CQG IntegratedClient. CQG also provides direct connectivity to its Hosted Exchange Gateways using the industry-standard FIX protocol via CQG’s FIX 4.2 API. By using CQG’s API solutions, partners and customers can route orders directly to CQG’sgateways through their own proprietary applications.
About CQG, Inc.
CQG, Inc. is the industry’s highest-performing solution for integrated trade routing, global market data, and advanced technical analysis. CQG partners with more than fifty Futures Commission Merchants and provides Direct Market Access to more than forty exchanges through its worldwide network of collocated CQG Hosted Exchange Gate- ways. CQG’s market data feed consolidates over a hundred sources, including exchanges worldwide for futures, options, fixed income, foreign exchange, and equities as well as data on debt securities, industry reports, and financial indices. CQG is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with sales and support offices worldwide. For more information about CQG, pleasecall 1-800-525-7082 or visit www.cqg.com.
About Edge Financial Technologies
Edge FinancialTechnologies is a Chicago-based financial technology consulting firm spe- cializing in providing technology solutions for financial services firms and professional traders. Our expertise is in creating automated and algorithmictrading strategies, back testing, custom risk management solutions and portfolio optimization solutions. Our core team has over 30 years of combined experience in delivering automated trading software solutions.
Our recent projects include customized spreaders, Excel®/MATLAB® integration with trad- ing strategies, low latency FIX connectivity, pre-trade and post-trade risk management solution, strategy back testing tools, optimizing Linux hardware and software, kernel bypass technology and more.
We have created a suite of algorithm building blocks for strategies such as spreading, ar- bitrage, scalping and chart based indicators. We can build trading solutions very quickly using these pre-created building blocks. Edge FinancialTechnologies have deployed more than 30 trading strategies and solutions over the last 3 years.
For more information about Edge Financial Technologies, please call 312-235-3206 or visit www.edgefinite.com.
