Opening Cross
Opening Cross: Disrupt or Die (Or Rather, Prepare to Be Disrupted)
Disruptive technologies can bring direct and indirect advantages, if you embrace them.
Opening Cross: Why a Data Deal Isn’t Just a Data Deal
An investment in data is an investment in the success of your business.
Opening Cross: Is Your Board on Board with (Or Just Bored by?) Data Governance
Are you a data guv'nor or a govenor?
Opening Cross: Forza Monza! Forza Market Data!
Most pople compare market data to Formula One because of speed. But that's just one similarity between the two.
Opening Cross: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Anyone Using Sentiment Analysis!
Understanding sentiment may be the key to beating the markets and HFTs.
Opening Cross: Is ‘Fundamental’ Change Afoot for ‘Traditional’ Content?
Fundamental research, once second fiddle to low latency, is getting a second wind.
Opening Cross: More Data = Less Layering = Less Crying = More Giggling
With new data analysis technologies, there's no excuse for not spotting market manipulation.
Opening Cross: A Misplaced Sense of Entitlement?
Last week, we at Inside Market Data experienced a problem that’s already an all-too-frequent issue for data industry participants—unauthorized and non-compliant usage of proprietary data. After all, just like the major data vendors and newswires, we…
Opening Cross: Investors Optimistic Over the Value of Information
Approaching year-end, it’s not unusual to see a flurry of mergers and acquisition activity as firms hustle to clear their books and close deals that often come with New Year expiry dates. And while M&A activity takes place year round, it’s uncommon to…
Opening Cross: Carry On Demanding
A more demanding client base demands more on-demand data.
Opening Cross: Low Latency: Competitive Differentiator or Lowly Functional Requirement?
It's not just about speed; it's what you do with it that counts.
Opening Cross: From Predictive to Productive: Practical Applications of Analytics
Predictive analytics aren't just for traders.
Opening Cross: Everybody Wins When the Customer Is Always Right… Right?
Give the customer what they want... even if that means a way out.
Opening Cross: Data: The Granular Sweetener that Will Pack On the Pounds (or Dollars)
Whatever word you use to describe them—analytics, indicators, signals, or something else—datasets that provide some kind of directional indication, rather than just a static data point, are among the most valuable to any trader, analyst or investment…
Opening Cross: Mmmm… Data!
Bacon is like data—delicious, porky data.
Opening Cross: When Collaboration Isn’t a Crime
Perhaps it’s because summer is now officially here and everyone wants to go skipping hand-in-hand through sun-drenched meadows, or that FISD’s Tom Davin is the latest inductee into the Inside Market Data Hall of Fame, or perhaps there’s another dynamic…
Opening Cross: At the End of the Day, It’s All Data
Data isn't just prices; it's unstructured text, charts, sentiment scores, and even analysis of photographs.
Opening Cross: A New Hope for Data Agility
With publicity for a new Star Wars movie already underway, it seems timely to note that the original movies could have been quite different if not for an alleged last-minute casting switch. As the story goes, because of a joint audition session between…
Opening Cross: In the Interest of Full Disclosure
Disclosure of market-moving information, and the industry that surrounds it, is changing rapidly.
Opening Cross: Outage Outrage: In Defense of Bloomberg
Bloomberg should take the blame for its own network failure, but not for some not having alternatives in place.
Opening Cross: Is Fee-Free Feasible?
Good management of data fees--even when waived--is a prperequisite to any talk of free data.
Opening Cross: Pump Up the Volume
As a new parent, I’ve become obsessed with volume: not just trying to figure out how to dial back the volume of a screeching baby at 4am in a New York apartment with walls apparently made of nothing more substantial than empty cereal boxes, or…
Opening Cross: Coopetition: Exposing You to a Bigger Audience, Or Just Leaving You Exposed?
Keep your friends close, and your partners closer.
Opening Cross: Simplicity Is the Best Policy
Every business is ultimately a sausage factory of sorts, differentiated by quality and complexity.