Continuum and Deltix announce partnership

Continuum, a division of Denver-based CQG, a provider of order execution, charting, and analytics services, and Deltix, the Natick, Mass.-based provider of automated trading applications, have announced an alliance that will see CQG's global market data and trade routing infrastructure available to Deltix clients.

Deltix's TimeBase data warehouse connects to CQG's real-time market data feed via Continuum's FIX/FAST (Financial Information eXchange protocol/FIX Adapted for STreaming) Direct API (application program interface).

Trading strategies are developed, back-tested, and optimized in Deltix's QuantOffice using CQG's historical data. When suitable strategies are ready, they are deployed for production trading in Deltix's QuantServer, which sends orders to market via CQG's FIX Connect API. The orders are routed through CQG's globally-distributed gateways.

Through FIX/FAST Direct, Deltix clients can use CQG's market data in Deltix's QuantOffice for modeling, strategy and algorithm development, back-testing, and trading system optimization.

Continuum's FIX Connect, a FIX 4.2-compatible API, enables Deltix clients to execute latency-critical trading strategies on over forty exchanges worldwide via CQG's Hosted Exchange Gateways.