Tag: operations
Concepts
- Alert Fatigue and Escalation Policy
- Checking Borrow Before You Short
- Not Putting Everything Through One Broker
- Reconciling Cash And Margin
- Change Control for Live Strategies
- Corporate Action Announcement Standards
- Corporate Action Data Feeds and the Golden Copy
- Handling A Corporate Action On A Live Book
- Handing The Book Over Across Time Zones
- Escalation: Who You Call And When
- Exchange Calendars and Trading Holidays
- Exchange Conformance Testing And Certification
- Executing Brokers and Give-Up Agreements
- Exercise And Assignment Mechanics
- Flash P\&L Versus Final P\&L
- Front Office Versus Back Office P&L Breaks
- Fund Administrators and NAV Oversight
- Global Custody and Sub-Custodian Networks
- Heartbeats and Staleness Detection
- Holiday Calendars and Cross-Currency Clashes
- Keeping a Data Inventory Researchers Will Use
- Kill Switch Scope: What Actually Gets Cancelled
- Kill Switches and Circuit Breakers
- Kill Switches and Risk Gateways
- Little's Law
- Mandatory, Voluntary and Mandatory-With-Choice Events
- M/M/c Queues and the Erlang C Formula
- Mothballing a Strategy and Bringing It Back
- Multi-Prime and Counterparty Diversification
- Netting Offsetting Positions Across Books
- Netting Positions Across Strategies
- Omnibus vs Segregated Client Accounts
- Onboarding a Bought Dataset Into Production
- Position and Cash Reconciliation Breaks
- The Pre-Open Checklist
- Reconciliation Tolerances Between Implementations
- Sanctions Screening and OFAC Compliance
- Strategy Runbooks and On-Call Documentation
- System Health Metrics for Trading Systems
- The Daily Strategy Health Dashboard
- The M/G/1 Queue and the Pollaczek-Khinchine Formula
- The Shape Of A Trading Day
- The Trading Incident Response Runbook
- Transfer Agents and Share Registrars
- Versioning and Re-Fitting a Live Strategy
- What a Custodian Does
- When Yesterday's P\&L Gets Restated
- Winding Down a Strategy Without Moving the Market
- Working Capital and the Cash Conversion Cycle