Horizon Portfolio Management

Horizon Portfolio Management is a cross-asset electronic platform designed for principal and agency trading. According to the vendor, it offers a comprehensive set of native trading functionalities and algorithmic capabilities, allowing clients to create, test, and implement automated trading strategies across multiple asset classes. The product is targeted at financial institutions of all sizes, including banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms. It is commonly used by financial traders, portfolio managers, risk managers, compliance officers, and investment banks.

Key Features

Market Making Solution: According to the vendor, the product provides a market making solution for options, warrants, futures, ETFs, and FX. It enables clients to provide liquidity and make markets in various financial instruments. It supports automated market making strategies, helping optimize pricing and manage risk in market making activities.

Algo Framework: The product offers an algo framework for clients to run and script their own algorithms. According to the vendor, it allows integration of Horizon's vol and dispersion algorithms, supports back-testing and stress-testing of trading strategies, and enables clients to create and implement sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies.

Execution & Order Management: According to the vendor, the product offers a multi-asset execution and order management solution with embedded algo execution strategies. It allows for efficient order routing and execution across different markets, supports real-time position and risk analysis, and provides comprehensive trade execution capabilities.

Pricing Integration: The product integrates pricing data from various sources, enabling real-time pricing updates and analysis. According to the vendor, it helps traders make informed pricing decisions and provides position and risk analysis based on accurate and up-to-date pricing data.

Managed Services: According to the vendor, the product offers hosting, hardware, and application management services, including high-performance hosting with an exchange colocation option. It monitors hardware and connections with exchanges, ensures platform availability, and provides 24/5 support to end users.

Native Trading: The product supports trading across multiple asset classes, including equities, currencies, commodities, and derivatives. According to the vendor, it provides a single multi-asset market solutions approach, enabling traders to execute trades in their preferred manner with flexibility and customization in trading strategies.

Cryptocurrency Trading: According to the vendor, the product supports trading of cryptocurrencies alongside traditional financial instruments. It provides access to cryptocurrency exchanges and liquidity, offering real-time market data and execution capabilities for cryptocurrencies.

Execution Algorithms: The product provides a range of execution algorithms to optimize trade execution, according to the vendor. It helps traders time their trades and increase reactivity. It supports both manual and automated execution strategies, facilitating timely and efficient trade execution.

Back-Test & Stress-Testing: According to the vendor, the product allows users to record, replay, and back-test trading strategies. It supports stress-testing under different market conditions, helping traders evaluate the performance and robustness of their strategies. It facilitates the development of more reliable and effective trading approaches.

Deep Learning and Intraday Strategies: The product enables the development and implementation of deep learning-based trading strategies, according to the vendor. It supports the use of artificial intelligence in intraday trading, helping traders adapt to market dynamics and changing conditions. It facilitates the exploration of new trading opportunities.