UNX Catalyst® Boosts Marketplace Offering with New Behavioral Trading Technology From Titan Trading Analytics

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Traders know that such emotions as greed, fear and irrational exuberance can often influence trading prices and market direction.  Now they can act ahead of the herd, thanks to an integrated offering from innovative trading technology provider UNX LLC (www.unx.com) and software developer Titan Trading Analytics (TSX Venture: TTA, OTC Bulletin Board :TITAF).

The firms have developed a plug-in that streams behavioral research and trade strategies from Titan's TickAnalyst™ system into the Catalyst platform.  Based on the science of behavioral finance, TickAnalyst's proprietary pattern recognition algorithms factor in emotions ranging from euphoria to confidence to panic.  The models were developed and extensively back-tested using ten years of historical equities tick data, machine-readable news and social media sentiment.

The TickAnalyst system simultaneously runs all models through its complex event processing (CEP) engines to "sense" certain market behavior and generate trade signals before herd mentality takes over.  Traders often receive higher-probability trade ideas hours—or even days—ahead of market correction.

The Catalyst integration also allows traders to immediately act on buy and sell recommendations by placing orders from the independent, broker-neutral Catalyst EMS (Execution Management System).  

Titan was able to initiate development of the plug-in application using UNX's advanced Software Development Kit (SDK), according to Titan President and CEO John Coulter.

"Catalyst's open-technology framework and SDK made it extremely easy for us to integrate with TickAnalyst," Coulter affirms.  "We're excited to join the Catalyst Marketplace, and look forward to helping UNX clients increase their trading productivity with our actionable behavioral research content."

UNX Global Head of Product Management Ruth Colagiuri states that the inclusion of such unique, third-party services into Catalyst underscores the value proposition of the platform for traders, as well as a delivery vehicle for firms who want to extend services to a broader client base.

"The Catalyst business model has always been about more than just providing an EMS and order-routing network," Colagiuri explains.  "We are actually building a global community of trading participants and third-party vendors who are developing their own Catalyst plug-ins to create customized trading solutions.  The Catalyst SDK is both intuitive and comprehensive and we are seeing increasing adoption of this model."

UNX recently announced the integration of data and research services into Catalyst from International Class Actions Management (ICAM) to help traders limit exposure to risk.  The plug-in access to ICAM's global database of securities class actions, bankruptcies and government disgorgements was also developed using UNX's SDK.

Available to clients, broker-dealers, exchanges and third-party application vendors to develop applications or add-ins for use in Catalyst, the UNX SDK includes multiple open APIs that provide access to thousands of callable functions and support a broad range of programming languages.  Users can quickly add functionality, update their offerings and integrate applications without having to involve the UNX development staff and incur additional development costs.

About UNX LLC

Founded in 1999, UNX is an independent trading technology firm and agency broker that provides advanced electronic trading technology for the institutional trading community through its open-architecture platform Catalyst®.   A broker-neutral offering, Catalyst streamlines multi-broker trading workflow and serves as an efficient delivery mechanism for broker-dealers and third-party vendors to distribute and update their offerings to clients.  UNX has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

About Titan

Titan Trading Analytics Inc. is a premier provider of Behavioral Trading Research. Trade signals are distributed via a powerful financial analysis and electronic trading software platform which captures and analyzes real-time market tick data and identifies trade opportunities based on numerous historical patterns, identified by Titan's Trade Recommendation Engine™ (TRE).  Titan's flagship product, TickAnalyst™, delivers trading signals to proprietary trading firms and hedge funds. For more information please visit www.titantrading.com

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