Client:

• $4 billion hedge fund using quantitative models to drive automated trading strategies

    Challenge:

• Incorporate insider data into real-time trading models
• Data directly from the SEC was unusable due to lack of consistent structure (free text fields specify security, insider and relation) and filer errors

    Solution:

• WS implements real-time quality assurance process and data analysis staff to interpret, structure, and correct form data on the fly
• WS hosts real time http insider data feed on its high availability web server and communications infrastructure

    Benefits:

• Accurate and structured data fed into real-time trading model within 120 seconds of raw data dissemination from SEC
• High availability data feed infrastructure delivering 99.9% reliability