Key Features of the Price Tick Monitor Dashboard

Financial services firms depend on the smooth functioning of trading operations to serve their clients effectively. However, disruptions in trading operations can have dire consequences, ranging from dissatisfied clients to significant financial losses. In this article, we will delve into the challenges that financial institutions face regarding trading operation disruptions and explore how Tapaas’ Price Tick Monitor offers effective solutions for FOREX brokers.

Trading operations are the lifeblood of any financial services firm. These operations involve the execution of orders, pricing feeds, and order management systems. Ensuring the stability and accuracy of these processes is crucial to maintain the trust of clients and safeguard financial interests. Unfortunately, trading disruptions can occur due to various factors, including glitches in pricing feeds and issues with order execution.

When trading operations face disruptions, the consequences can be severe. Some of the common repercussions include:

1. Dissatisfied Clients: Clients expect reliable pricing and order execution. When disruptions occur, it can lead to dissatisfaction, and they may seek alternative service providers.
2. Financial Losses: Trading disruptions can result in financial losses for both the firm and its clients. Mispriced trades and failed executions can lead to significant financial setbacks.

Tapaas is a cutting-edge financial technology solution that empowers financial institutions with real-time monitoring and actionable insights to optimize their trading operations.

Tapaas’ Price Tick Monitor is a powerful tool that offers real-time monitoring of pricing feeds, enabling financial institutions to identify issues before they affect trading operations. Here’s how it works.

Real-time Monitoring

The Price Tick Monitor continuously checks thousands of instruments for pricing irregularities in real time. By configuring tolerance thresholds, users can set specific criteria for pricing anomalies, ensuring that any issues are promptly detected.

Key Pricing Irregularities Monitored

The Price Tick Monitor focuses on four main pricing irregularities that often lead to trading disruptions:

1. Stale Quotes: Stale pricing occurs when pricing feeds stop updating, leading to quoting outdated prices to clients. Users can set the maximum duration for which pricing can remain unchanged before it’s flagged as stale.
2. Excessive Spreads: Sudden spikes in bid/ask spreads can increase trading costs for clients. The Price Tick Monitor allows users to configure spread tolerance thresholds to cap spreads at reasonable levels.
3. Negative Spreads: Negative spreads, where bid prices exceed ask prices, indicate pricing anomalies. The monitor immediately alerts users to prevent erroneous order executions.
4. Excessive Price Jumps: Large price jumps between consecutive ticks could indicate faulty feeds or extreme market moves. Users can set price change tolerance levels to receive instant alerts.

The dashboard offers several key features that facilitate effective monitoring and problem resolution:

• Live View: Users can track pricing feed health in real time, with breaches of configured tolerances highlighted for quick identification.
• Sorting by Severity: Symbols with active alerts are sorted by severity, helping users prioritize issues based on their impact.
• Historical Breach Tracking: The dashboard logs all pricing alerts triggered over the past hour, aiding in diagnosing recurrent or intermittent issues.
• Heatmaps for Visualization: Heatmaps allow users to visually identify clusters of symbols or sources facing pricing issues, making problematic areas clearly visible.
• Flexible Filtering: Users can filter alerts by symbol, symbol group, pricing sources, and more, allowing for analysis across various instrument categories or feed providers.
• Configuration Changes on the Fly: Tolerance thresholds and configuration parameters can be adjusted in real time, with new settings taking effect immediately.

Here are two examples of how brokers can effectively use the Price Tick Monitor:

Case 1: A Wholesale FX Broker can prevent losses by immediately responding to stale quote alerts during an active trading session. This proactive approach includes purging resting orders, halting trading on affected symbols, and adjusting risk limits as a precautionary measure.

Case 2: An emerging market stock broker faced rejections and requotes when executing client orders on a particular exchange. Analysis of price tick alerts revealed infrastructure issues with the exchange, allowing the broker to adjust trading models and risk management effectively.

The Tapaas Price Tick Monitor serves as an invaluable early warning system for financial institutions, allowing them to detect and address pricing feed errors before they disrupt trading operations. With its real-time alerts, visualizations, and flexible configurations, the Price Tick Monitor empowers firms to stay on top of pricing feeds, minimizing trading disruptions, revenue loss, and client dissatisfaction.

Tapaas’ Price Tick Monitor ensures that organizations can proactively troubleshoot feed problems through integrated dashboards, leading to smooth and automated trading operations that remain unaffected by pricing glitches. In an industry where precision and reliability are paramount, Tapaas provides the solution that financial institutions need to thrive.