TECH TUESDAY: PTS Partners Adopts OneTick to Support Quant Trading

The global quantitative fund will use the OneMarketData solution to support building, testing and running its investment strategies.

PTS Partners, a global quantitative fund,has implementedOneTick from OneMarketData, a streaming tick data solution for historical and real-time data.

PTS Partnersis using OneTick to support its quantitative research and strategy development to identify predictive signals based on both historical and real-time market data. According to a press statement, OneTick is the first vendor solution that PTS Partners has used to support its trading and research activities.

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OneTick gives our quants a clear advantage, the tooling to analyze both historical and real-time data to more efficiently identify and capture alpha in the current challenging market environment, said Hau Chiew of PTS Partners.

He continued, OneTick allows us to archive global tick data across all our tradable markets as well as back-test our models to discover what works the best and capitalize on that.

Quantitative investors need to be equipped with state-of-the-art research, trading and analytics tools to discover alpha in todays markets, said Richard Chmiel, senior vice president, OneMarketData. PTS Partnerss selection of OneTick reflects on the products ability to help quants and traders research what has worked in the past and shape new algorithms to recognize opportunities in real-time.

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