Algo trading to double, says Eurex

"The rise in activity of algorithmic traders is impressive, and it’s changing the nature of electronic trading,” said Andreas Preuss, chief executive of Eurex, a Frankfurt-based futures and options exchange that is jointly operated by Deutsche Börse and the Swiss Exchange, while speaking to press at the Futures and Options Expo in Chicago. The exchange expects algorithmic trading to account for 30-35% of total volume by the end of next year compared with about 15% this year and 8% in 2005.

Algorithmic trading – which is based on automated high-frequency, low-volume trading – is testing the limits of the exchange's technology. The average number of daily quotes on the Eurex platform skyrocketed from 38 million in 2005 to 120 million year-to-date in 2006. The peak number of daily quotes hit 230 million this year.

In order to meet increasing demand, the exchange will move from sending out market data every quarter of a second to real-time feeds on December 18. Juerg Spillmann, chief

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