DMAXX, LLC
DMAXX, LLC
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:32:00 -0600
TheBooks now provides electronic execution of futures and options and is now available all customers of TheBooks. This new capability in TheBooks is called the Execution Gateway.
Execution Gateways extend the Trading Desk concept in TheBooks and allows the routing of trades directly to exchanges for execution. As trades are filled, they are automatically updated in TheBooks and for those gateways that have an associated trading platform, such as Open E Cry, trades can be worked from within the platform; TheBooks automatically records your actions.
TheBooks provides several advanced execution options tailored to systematic institutional advisors:
Straight-through processing
Whether a trade originates in the trading platform, generated by software, or is manually created in TheBooks, trade processing and reporting is automatically performed.
The goal of complete automation, from trade inception through performance fee calculation is now a reality.
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:56:00 -0500
CHICAGO, IL - DMAXX, LLC, a leading supplier of middle and back office systems to institutional commodity trading advisors, and Open E Cry, LLC, an industry-leading direct access futures brokerage firm, and pioneering developer of futures trading technology, today announced a strategic alliance to provide seamless integration between their platforms. The resulting solution will provide the institutional CTA the first fully integrated, straight-through processing operating system, encompassing the front, middle, and back office functions, tailored specifically to institutional CTAs with managed accounts.
The combination of Open E Cry’s industry-leading, global direct access futures trading network and their OEC Trader platform with DMAXX’s fully integrated middle and back office software, TheBooks®, provides un-paralleled automation to the alternative investment manager. The resulting platform provides electronic and pit market access, dynamic block allocations, multi clearer trade routing, position management, broker reconciliation, risk management, performance accounting and reporting, as a single, fully integrated solution.
Discretionary and systematic traders will find the resulting solution delivers an operating platform not previously available to the institutional futures trader. The functionality to seamlessly combine long and short term algorithmic trading along side of discretionary screen trading into the middle and back office functions will now be available off the shelf to the institutional CTA.
About DMAXX, LLC
DMAXX, LLC has been providing Futures Trading and Accounting software and services to members of the Managed Futures industry since 1994. Our flagship product, TheBooks®, is a comprehensive, scalable application tailored to the needs of the alternative investment advisor with managed accounts. Our years of experience, product functionality, and dedication to customer service have made us the vendor of choice by institutional CTAs worldwide for more than fourteen years.
About Open E Cry, LLC
Open E Cry, LLC is a direct access FCM that offers online trading for both electronic and pit markets through our proprietary software. We have developed a set of complex systems and order routing technology specifically designed to meet the high standards of CTAs, hedge funds, FCMs, Prop Shops, Arcades and other high volume commodities and futures traders. This technology can be accessed through our industry-leading trading front end, OEC Trader, or through direct access to our API. Our focus is to provide the best execution possible to ensure maximum speed and reliability, while minimizing total transaction costs.
Contact DMAXX, LLC:
Dana Comolli
1.847.234.4969 x11
http://www.dmaxx.com
Contact Open E Cry, LLC:
Brian Weis
1.800.920.5808 x4484
http://www.openecry.com
Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:15:00 -0600
DMAXX, LLC announces the availability of on-line support forums for users of TheBooks. Users can access these forums and search for answers to their questions as well as post questions for issues which cannot be resolved by searching the forums. The forums are designed to provide an additional vehicle for customer support for those users who prefer to use on-line resources rather than the other methods of support provided by DMAXX. The existing support options will continue to be available for our customers.
The forums are continuously monitored by the DMAXX support team to ensure timely responses to all questions and issues and are being populated with questions and answers which have been received in the past via our traditional support options.
The forums are open to all users of TheBooks, but users must register on the forum before they are granted access. Once registered, users can search the forums, post new topics, and respond to other posts.
The forums are located at http://forums.dmaxx.com
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:26:00 -0600
Version 2.2.1 of TheBooks adds support for eSignal for both real-time as well as historic data. One of the big advantages for users of TheBooks is eSignals excellent support for LME prices. Accurate settlement prices for any forward date are available directly from eSignal without the need to interpolate to the forward date.
TheBooks works with either the eSignal or FutureSource Workstation interfaces and can connect with any eSignal system installed in your network.
To find out more about this exciting new addition to TheBooks, contact us at info@dmaxx.com or call us at 847-234-4969.
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:08:00 -0600
Version 2.2.1 and its subsequent service packs is the last version of TheBooks which will support Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000. Subsequent versions of TheBooks will not install into environments with either of these platforms.
Windows 2000 entered the 5-year extended support phase on June 30, 2005. During this phase, Microsoft continues to provide security hot fixes and paid support but no longer provides complimentary support options, design change requests, and non-security hotfixes
SQL Server 2005 SP1 has been available since mid April 2006 and SQL Server 2008’s release is comming in the next few months. SQL Server 2005 is a significant upgrade from SQL Server 2000 and includes many functional as well as performance enhancements. TheBooks has been supported on SQL Server 2005 since its initial release in November 2005.
At this time, more than eighty percent of our customers have migrated to SQL Server 2005 and are performing their daily operations without any issues.
There are several options available for SQL Server 2005:
From a migration standpoint, SQL Server 2000 and 2005 can co-exist on the same computer so applications can be migrated to the new database over time.