Satnam Sohal and Frank Feenstra

Algos Advance On FX

November 2019 in Industry Reports

After years of watching their equity market peers shift business to algorithmic trades, many FX market participants finally took the leap into the algo pool themselves last year, with adoption increasing by 25% year on year according to an important FX study from Greenwich Associates.

Algo adoption rates in FX have remained surprisingly flat over the last five years, even as algorithmic trades proliferated in other markets that have become largely electronic in nature. However, after last year’s spike in usage, about one in five FX market participants are now trading via algorithm—a share that is consistent across the major markets of North America and Europe, and on the rise in Asia. Satnam Sohal, Principal at Greenwich Associates and co-author of:  FX Execution: Competing in Algo adoption rates in FX have remained surprisingly flat over the last five years, even as algorithmic trades proliferated in other markets that have become largely electronic in nature. However, after last year’s spike in usage, about one in five FX market participants are now trading via algorithm—a share that is consistent across the major markets of North America and Europe, and on the rise in Asia. Satnam Sohal, Principal at Greenwich Associates and co-author of:  FX Execution: Competing in

Algo adoption rates in FX have remained surprisingly flat over the last five years, even as algorithmic trades proliferated in other markets that have become largely electronic in nature. However, after last year’s spike in usage, about one in five FX market participants are now trading via algorithm—a share that is consistent across the major markets of North America and Europe, and on the rise in Asia. Satnam Sohal, Principal at Greenwich Associates and co-author of:  FX Execution: Competing in

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