Solutions

Trading Alpha Advisors is founded on the expertise and leadership that drove the development and implementation of industry-leading technologies such as
ABBIEOptimizer, ABBIEX, ALFA, ABBIE, and RAP.
These innovations, deeply intertwined with our foundation, continue to shape the landscape of Fixed Income technology.

Muni Automation

In 2019, AllianceBernstein was traded approximate 17,000 muni bonds using five traders. In 2022, AllianceBernstein traded 225,000 bonds using three traders. To do this required automation. To do it effectively, required the creation and integration of three proprietary technology solutions:

1. ALFA to source the bonds and find motivated sellers in a fragmented and illiquid market.

2. AbbieOptimizer to choose the best bonds and optimal allocations.

3. ABBIEX to achieve best execution with optimal pricing levels and automated trading. 

 

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ABBIEX

ABBIEX is a proprietary OEMS. It connects to the major broker dealers and to other EMS, engaging at the best price levels. ABBIEX can process over 2,000 messages per second to surveil the market and provide optimal realtime pricing. Traders achieve automation – even in fragmented and illiquid markets – through the management of intelligent and dynamic algos. These algos are powered by machine learning and unparralled access to data. The result is trading alpha, best execution and operational leverage. 

ALFA

ALFA (Automated Liquidity Filtering & Analytics) is plugged into the majority of the fixed income liquidity pools, broker dealers and market surveillance tools to provide an unparalleled view of the bond market. When launched in 2016, ALFA was featured in publications and has been instrumental in delivering best execution and better client outcomes. While ALFA was created to provide traders with realtime views of liquidity, pricing and transaction costs, it has evolved. ALFA is now used as inputs into quantitative models, optimizers, and machine learning algorithms to automate portfolio construction.

ABBIE

Launched in 2017, ABBIE is an AI powered virtual assistant that has become an integral tool for fixed income in creating orders and advising portfolio managers. With a few words, ABBIE can create hundreds of orders, alert portfolio managers to risk, and provide expert portfolio constuction advice informed by strategy, current positioning, market liquidity, quant models and funamental research. ABBIE has been recognized by the industry with an innovation of the year award and has been featured in Bloomberg. Financial Times, and MIT Technology Review.

RAP

RAP, Research Analyst Portal, is a proprietary fixed income solution for a large asset manager. It supports the entire research driven investment process including: qunatitative modeling, fundamental research, porfolio analysis, portfolio construction, order management, performance and risk/compliance management. RAP is a modular enterprise solution that serves as the firm’s IBOR and is used extensively by over 1,000 front, middle and back office investment professional.