Pick and Mix – choosing the best algorithms to fit your FX execution strategy

FX isn't just any old asset class, you know. It's traded by corporates, commodity firms, governments, tourists, and private individuals out of their back bedrooms. It's traded on smartphones, tablets, laptops, in trains, at restaurant tables, during lunch hours and in the evenings. You can trade (or at least buy and sell) the major pairs, and an expanding range of exotics, at kiosks in supermarkets. Philip Beasley-Harling, partner and CTO at currency-specialist hedge fund Blacktree Investment Partners, says: "The FX FX isn't just any old asset class, you know. It's traded by corporates, commodity firms, governments, tourists, and private individuals out of their back bedrooms. It's traded on smartphones, tablets, laptops, in trains, at restaurant tables, during lunch hours and in the evenings. You can trade (or at least buy and sell) the major pairs, and an expanding range of exotics, at kiosks in supermarkets. Philip Beasley-Harling, partner and CTO at currency-specialist hedge fund Blacktree Investment Partners, says: "The FX

FX isn't just any old asset class, you know. It's traded by corporates, commodity firms, governments, tourists, and private individuals out of their back bedrooms. It's traded on smartphones, tablets, laptops, in trains, at restaurant tables, during lunch hours and in the evenings. You can trade (or at least buy and sell) the major pairs, and an expanding range of exotics, at kiosks in supermarkets. Philip Beasley-Harling, partner and CTO at currency-specialist hedge fund Blacktree Investment Partners, says: "The FX