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Trade Automation
Trade smarter, not harder
Enhance your efficiency and execution by putting automation at the heart of your trading workflow. Reliable and accurate, Bloomberg’s trade automation helps to remove risk from your processes, freeing up traders’ time to focus on higher-margin activities.
Multi-asset class coverage
All offered products can be accessed through one interface, covering: equities, listed futures and listed equity options, fixed income, FX and ETFs.
Fully customizable UI
Rule Builder’s user-friendly interface makes it easy to change and understand rules and functionalities.
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Bloomberg data points can be utilized for rule evaluation, dealer/broker selection and execution instructions, and can be shared across the system for all asset classes.
Flexible interface
Users can set up a complete trading API that links to the broker directly, or the trading venues, or utilize a command to set up rules for automation within the Terminal.
Automation features
Complete automation
Establish rules that enable a fully-automated trading process. This functionality directs an order to the broker(s) for execution immediately upon its arrival in the Execution Manager.
Automation with a single click
Easily configure rules for manual release by retaining auto-routing orders in the Execution Manager until they are released. This can be done individually or in batches for multiple orders.
User-initiated automation
Set automated trading to activate only when you execute an action on the Execution Manager, with rule evaluation taking place at that time.
Broker wheel
Rule Builder (RBLD) provides a variety of wheels for listed workflows, including performance wheels and commission wheels, enabling you to configure the desired outcomes for their trades.
Conditional release
The system can retain orders until a specific market data condition is satisfied, with the most frequent use cases being time release and limit price release.
Team structure
Customize your automation setups to meet specific needs, including the option to have a team in place to distribute automation rules across the desk.
Advanced dealer selection
Access enhanced dealer selection capabilities for OTC venues through our Rule Builder system.
Asset class coverage
Fixed income
Foreign exchange
Listed equities
Listed futures
Listed options
Exchange Traded Funds
Resources
Multi-asset EMS automation: A scalability story
Sarasin & Partners (Sarasin) is a global investment manager with a stewardship lens, which has more than £18.5bn assets under management (AUM). The firm employs a global, thematic investment approach on behalf of charities, private clients, institutions, and investment professionals.
Exploring Automated Trading Performance in Sovereign and Credit Markets
Trade automation is widely recognized for its benefits, which include reducing trader’s workload, speeding up time to market, and streamlining routing, dealer selection, and execution. However, its impact on trade performance is often underexplored.
Improving multi-asset execution outcomes using EMS automation
As economic developments of the past few years have placed efficiency challenges on asset managers, LOIM continued to look at ways in which it could use technological advances across its extensive multi-asset trading operations, driving efficiency and enhancing execution outcomes without incurring substantial additional costs.
Equity automation improves performance and strengthens best execution
A new Bloomberg study shows that U.S. and European equity trading desks using Rule Builder (RBLD), our multi-asset automated trading solution, saw an overall performance increase of 30% or more.
Optimizing time-sensitive trading using automation
The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (the Guardians), which manages the NZ Super Fund, invests in a range of government securities across Asia, Europe and America. Guardians collaborated with Bloomberg to adopt a new version of Rule Builder (RBLD) that incorporated timed release and order rerun capabilities.
Reducing time to market
The bank’s buy-side trading desk needed to trade more efficiently by minimizing exposure to market volatility. By reducing trade times, they can better serve clients and get ahead in the market. Using Bloomberg’s Enterprise Product solutions, Baader Bank enhanced the execution performance of their buy-side desk through the seamless adoption of automation and TCA capabilities.