Services

Acting as a first-choice partner.

Because we take to heart our role to work hand-to-hand with your teams over any markets related problematics and mission; sizeable companies already placed their trust and confidence in us.

See below a list of responsabilities handled by EQTrack.

Trading Algorithm

Quantitative Project

Data extraction and analysis

Coding & Automation

Training sessions

Advisory

Technology Metals Markets

TM2 is an institutional-grade market for technology metals, allowing for direct investment with full ownership of the metals.

Algorithmic Trading Agents

Design, development and backtest of electronic trading strategies for individual and companies.

Seminar & Trainings

Training sessions for students and professionals either as a visiting lecturer or speaker.

Ad-hoc missions

EQTrack acted as prime contractor for the realization of punctual financial tasks.

Technology metals market (tm2)

a cutting-hedge exchange

TM2 has established itself as a global exchange marketplace and trading business that enables investors to trade a new asset class of high-value technology metals critical to global technology industries. The exchange is connecting the supply from 40 different metal verticals to a far wider demand around the world.

All the products on TM2 are physically backed 1:1 by the metals held in a custodian network.

Eqtrack role

By taking the lead on the whole market and trading department, EQTrack had a role at the forefront of TM2 development.

EQTrack position covered many aspects of the business summarized in the Missions section.

Intro

EQTrack has historically been deeply involved into Sales and various projects ultimately related to TM2 Business development from the introduction of new relationships to the demonstration of the trading capabilities & research.

Missions

Global coverage of the sell-side (issuers, liquidity providers) and the buy-side (institutional members, listing & execution broker)

Deal origination & structuring

Participation in the Management & Strategy Meetings

Operator on the secondary market with the NASDAQ technology (UMS)

Design of algorithmic trading agents and market-making activity using Liquidity Providers

In charge to kick-off the development of the Derivatives & Futures market on these metals

Quantitative & Pricing tasks

Portfolio allocation (Qualitative portfolio & Markovitz/Lagrangian -based allocation)

Work on the Exchange Traded Metals Basket (ETMB) offering

Implementing new products, trade control units, scheduling market times in the system

Creation and Overseeing the listing of new products on the platform (Primary & Secondary)

Facilitating the implementation of the generic ticker strategy

Work on the API and FIX Protocol (both for external & internal uses)

Ad-hoc demonstrations of the Secondary Market system

Interaction with back-office and Finance for settlement issues

Interaction with Legal, Credit and Onboarding departments

Interaction with the Product Development & Tech team for the design of new features

Mission related to the fundraising

Review

EQTrack found the adequate suppliers for the listing of 16 metals on TM2, ensuring deep physical liquidity underneath incl. Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Ruthenium, Iridium, Silver, Osmium, Rhenium, Indium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Dysprosium, Terbium, Hafnium, Gallium, Germanium

Creation and development of new compelling products for the market such as the Exchange Traded Metals Basket.
ETMBs are baskets with an already made split of underlying tech metals that are reflecting a whole market segment.

Definition of the generic ticker strategy through liquidity providers. Creation of the trading algorithms to gather the liquidity from different platforms and link it to the TM2 Secondary Market through the FIX protocol provided by Nasdaq.

Custody relationship management with Loomis for the metal storage (from discussion opening to first storage and delivery completed).

Algorithmic Trading agents

From the design

With the experience gained through the Algorithmic Trading Programme from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, EQTrack's funder is devoted in creating profitable electronic trading algorithms for all kind of risk-adversity and economically making sense.

Backtesting is not an end in itself and must not be used to calibrate a model, but should validate the rationality behind the strategy instead.

to the implementation

EQTrack offers different solutions for both individuals and profesionnals in the scope of trading algorithms.

Our code is usually written in Python and run 24/7 on remote servers hosted by PythonAnywhere. When cryptocurrencies are used as underlying, we flow our orders to FTX.

turnkey solution

EQTrack offersmulti-layers trading strategies suitable for the trading of cyrptocurrencies and other financial assets. Generic algorithms based on Bollinger Bands, Exponential Moving Average (EMA) vs Standard Moving Average (SMA), Relative Strength Index (RSI), etc. are then created.

We offer 3 turnkey plans depending on your needs and goals.

Code only

Code + Implementation on a remote server

Follow your profitability through our track record interface

From €59

Our trading solutions start from 59 euros. Final cost is tied to complexity.
Reach out to our team for more information.

on demand solution

We are open to discussion regarding personalized strategy backtesting and algorithm development, feel free to reach out to our team through the contact page.

Client interface

Seminar & Trainings

Eqtrack pledge

We run a careful assessment of the audience category in order to dedicate appropriately our time and energy to create unique content and personalized format adapted to the hearing it should be addressed.

During complementary sessions, we rely ourselves on external speakers to give deep insights on very specific matters, live from their trading floors. This is usually the "extra" that makes our audience loving these trainings.

We take pride in turning conferences, university teaching, seminars, .. into an experience.

Our topics are suitable both for students and professionals in a whole range of subjects listed in the Topics tab.

a whole range of subjects

Each of the below topics has an adjustable "difficulty" degree taking into consideration the previous experience from the audience.

Financial markets

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Derivatives, Pricing Models & Hedging Strategies

Structured Products

Fixed Income Analysis

Bloomberg for beginners

Trading Platforms (VBA or C#)

FX Markets

Python for Finance (with related APIs)

Business

LinkedIn 101

Pitching & Selling

samples

derivatives class

fixed income analysis

ad-hoc missions

Your front-line support

EQTrack is working on temporary missions for various clients and ready to handle more of these contracts.

We work with your existing team as a Trading, Sales or Quant support - ultimately, we contribute in reducing your operating expenses allocated to the field of trading, research and global market division.

We guarantee full confidentiality through NDA if required.

over endless possibilities

Feel free to navigate in the above panels to see examples of companies that trusted us for punctual missions. Other illustrastions are provided below.

Live-time analysis of query trends on Google with Financial Market impact: Volumes, Share Price, Correlation between assets.
(Python, Google Trends, Yahoo Finance)

Portfolio value surface following hedging of a downside risk. The surface being strictly positive reveals the existence of an arbitrage opportunity from inception time.

Context

Monerium is a disruptive DeFi company involved in the issuance, transfer and settlement of e-money.
The FinTech is the first of its kind to be authorized by the financial regulator to issue money on blockchains. They also benefit from a European passporting allowing them to operate in all the EU member states, in addition to Iceland, Norway and the Lichtenstein.

More recently, they successfully raised $4 million to accelerate the development of the company.

EQTrack missions

In August 2019, EQTrack got punctually involved into investment analysis assignments.

Explanatory note on the funds safeguarding possibilities with respect to the Article 7 of the E-Money Directive (2009/110/EC)

Yield Curve Monitor Tool - Overview of the credit spread between sovereigns and corporates for different maturities and 4 currencies (EUR, USD, GBP, ISK). Duration Analysis & Automatic PDF reporting.
(VBA and Reuters Eikon API)

Context & missions

Capital Sniper is a London-based company with a core focus on advisory for commodities-related firms.
Over the year 2021, EQTrack acted as the research building block for Capital Sniper and provided the below services:

Brokerage services in the field of metals trading (OTC trading)

Product factsheet creation (and associated generic template)

Coding & Automation missions on behalf of Capital Sniper's own clients (Python, VBA)

Click here to access the full mission summary on Technology Metals Market (TM2).