- On October 4, Goldman Sachs publicized the introduction of Sonar Dark X, the latest algorithm on its Atlas equities trading platform.
- It is the first-ever liquidity exploring algorithm supported by Atlas and is created to enhance non-displayed liquidity capture and reduce price effect.
Sonar Dark X leverages Goldman Sachs’ liquidity scoring structure for non-displayed liquidity, adding scoring for definite ATS liquidity parts to aid clients to handle the shattered landscape. It is the latest algorithm on Atlas, Goldman Sachs’ equities trading platform, that was launched three years ago, leading to a multi-year investment to expand the company’s global trading infrastructure, giving lower latency, higher capacity, and inflated swiftness for the product revolution.
The fresh algorithm also utilizes Goldman Sachs’ Liquidity Shield Logic, which is built to lessen parent order details leakage while exploring invisible liquidity by stabilizing the liquidity quality and catching aim all over the life of the order by energetically adapting among definite combinations of venue segments, minimum implementation quantities and spread permissions.
“The framework over the world carries on to grow in complication, which needs consistent investment in revolution to be one step ahead,” John Cosenza, the head of electronic trading in the Americas and Global co-head of product research and development at Goldman Sachs, stated.
“Connectedness to a wider set of attainable liquidity venues is currently the least possible need for liquidity exploring products. In a constantly changing and growingly competitive liquidity landscape the main thing is to amend the division of venue parts best match for a particular client target.”
The logic of the algorithm
Liquidity is broken down over venues, and various venue workers propose market members the capability to communicate with specific segments of execution issuer. This shows a more grainy level of trade-off between liquidity quantity and quality over venues and venue segments; as a consequence, there is more client demand for analysis and advanced navigational tools to implement.
Leveraging the Atlas platform, the Sonar Dark X algorithm is made to grasp non-displayed liquidity with reduced price effect by recognizing chances to adapt the pace of liquidity capture grounded on price excellence and block accessibility.
The logic of the algorithm is customizable, permitting clients to set order implantation parameters to add aim participation percentage bands and block allotment amounts over various Execution Styles. In that choice, the algorithm energetically handles the relationship between liquidity capture, recent stock price, and reference price.
The recent Sonar Dark X algorithm, which was set up in the United States and is anticipated to mount in EMEA after some time in this year, differently places Goldman Sachs to handle the constantly changing liquidity framework.
Source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2022/10/08/goldman-sachs-introduces-liquidity-exploring-platform-sonar-dark-x/