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Transaction Cost Analytics Stuck in Neutral: Accelerating At-Trade Adaptation

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20 April 2010
David Easthope

Abstract

With an evolving equities market structure underscoring the need for tools to enhance execution strategy, buy side firms on the leading edge are showing that more technology adopted at-trade can help reduce execution costs and move beyond the “measure it and forget it” attitude that is widely prevalent in the marketplace.

While even elementary Transaction Cost Analytics (TCA) has yet to be fully leveraged by the buy side, those firms that have embraced TCA are moving beyond simple measurement and intermittent evaluation of execution strategy to actually adapting strategies at the point of trade. The at-trade movement involves some increased use of pre-trade analytics, but it also includes the use of sophisticated new technologies to monitor execution at the point of trade and switch strategies based on a dynamic feedback loop.

The financial crisis and the advent of high frequency trading (HFT) have changed the rules of the game for the buy side, making real time adaptation necessary to maintain and improve existing execution strategy, according to a new report, Transaction Cost Analytics Stuck in Neutral: Accelerating At-Trade Adaptation. As the market structure evolves, so must the buy side, particularly as explicit execution costs fall and implicit execution costs are more closely scrutinized.

Specialized TCA vendors and leading execution brokerages are offering more tools to meet this demand. While some promises of real time TCA are just promises of faster data, many brokerages are indeed providing the useful granular data that is a necessary input to these new methodologies. Other leading boutiques are going even further to the edge. These firms are providing specific tools to monitor performance during the execution phase. Traders are being allowed to input smarter parameters to automate the monitoring and switching of execution strategies based on these parameters for stocks during the trading day. In other words, TCA is extending from an ex-post review of execution to an ex-ante prediction of which execution strategies/algorithms will be most efficient.

“The TCA discipline continues to evolve so that leading edge buy side firms can more effectively refine their execution strategies,” says David Easthope, Senior Analyst with Celent’s Capital Markets group and coauthor of the report. “Today, those firms that have embraced TCA are moving beyond simple measurement and intermittent evaluation of execution strategy to actually adapting strategies at the point of trade.”

“While at-trade developments are pushing TCA forward generally, some specific areas will be key drivers of this at-trade evolution, namely intra-day algorithm performance measurement and predictive switching,” says Mayiz Habbal, Senior Vice President of Celent’s Securities & Investments practice and coauthor of the report.

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