Quants should spend their time innovating, not wrangling data. Yet too often, the reality is the opposite – 80% of their effort goes into sourcing, cleaning, and shaping data, leaving only 20% for real research. Our approach flips that balance. By combining high-quality historical data with fast, purpose-built technology, we give quants the tools they need to explore market microstructure, test strategies, and generate insight without the bottlenecks. The result? Less time wrestling with infrastructure, more time unlocking alpha.
Our Services
Turning trading data into measurable execution excellence — fast
KX Consultancy
Recognised experts in delivering KX and kdb+ analytic platforms for financial markets
With decades of experience, our team has designed and implemented solutions for leading international banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and exchanges, helping them harness the speed and scalability of KX to power trading analytics, quantitative research, and real-time decision making. This depth of expertise makes us a trusted partner for firms looking to unlock the full potential of KX in the highly competitive world of quant finance and trading.
Quant Research
Purpose-Built Data, Faster Microstructure Insight
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Market Microstructure
At its simplest, market microstructure is the “How to Trade” rather than the “What”
At its most complex, market microstructure is measuring the invisible mechanics of the orderbook in order to optimise or evaluate execution. Every trade that occurs on the exchange is shaped by both macro and micro-factors – developing a better understanding of the microstructure characteristics of the exchange and how they change over time can help us understand the patterns in our trading and thus make better decisions about how to optimise the decisions we make.
Our expertise lies in transforming the chaos of market data into analytics and signals that offer genuine insight into market trends and behaviours.
TCA & Trading Research
Drive better decision making with effective TCA
Our analytics framework is designed to provide comprehensive insights into trading performance, enable trading organisations to optimise execution strategies, enhance transparency, and ultimately improve efficiency and performance.
We achieve this through:
- The use of innovative metrics that focus on potential for optimisation
- Extending metrics from order-summary to order life-cycle to measure variation in performance over time
- Expanding metrics from individual orders to portfolios of orders to enable identification of trends and patterns
- Visualisations to offer actionable insights into the factors contributing to your execution performance
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Analytics Framework
A structured & flexible analytics framework
Our powerful, proven library of analytics has been designed and developed with the ability to efficiently analyse vast volumes of data at scale and speed. It has the capability of solving problems, providing insights, and identifying patterns within the chaotic world of trading and market data.
We integrate a base library of core analytics that can be customised and enhanced to focus on your workflow.
Our custom platform will grow with the needs of your business and ever-evolving market conditions.
We move beyond traditional trading analytics to discover deeper trends hiding within your data.
We highlight what happened and why, what the contributing factors were, and what can be optimised in the future.
Improve your understanding.
Improve your trading decisions.
A robust analytics platform can deliver the insights you need. ExeQution Analytics can help you make this platform a reality.