Overview: Who We Are

Leading Market Technologies (LMT) is recognized as one of the foremost developers of advanced analytics and decision support software solutions for the financial industry. Founded in 1987, LMT's mission is to make it faster and easier for its clients to develop and deploy the sophisticated, custom analytics that drive today's trading profits. The company's Open Analytics™ product family provides traders, analysts, portfolio managers and other professional users with completely open access to real-time and historical time-series data and the industry's most powerful econometric, math, and statistical tools. LMT has been chosen by the world's largest and most successful financial firms to support real-time trading operations across a wide spectrum of markets and classes of instruments.

What We Offer

The company's flagship product, EXPO™, is widely considered to be the industry's most powerful solution for analytics development, deployment, and decision support. EXPO enables end users to develop, test, and deploy sophisticated custom analytics in a fraction of the time required by other approaches; it also provides users with a comprehensive set of over 140 standard studies, as well as specialized add-in modules such as Monte Carlo simulation, Neural Networks, and others. EXPO is available on all major data distribution platforms including TIB and Reuters Triarch. In addition to an open data interface, EXPO provides links to all major real-time and historical data sources, including the BLOOMBERG service, Reuters RSF+, Bridge IDF, FAME, and LIM.

Other members of the Open Analytics product family include TickBase™and BasketTrader™. TickBase is an ultra high-speed time-series database designed specifically to capture and store real-time tick data for subsequent re-use and analysis. Able to capture up to 600 ticks per second, TickBase is the only solution available that can reliably handle peak market volumes without losing data. TickBase has been widely deployed by leading trading firms to provide immediate access to detailed tick data for analysis and strategy development. TickBase is used in these firms to complement daily historical databases, including FAME and others. A single TickBase server is capable of simultaneously monitoring up to 10,000 instruments. Multiple TickBase servers can be connected to provide virtually unlimited capacity.

BasketTrader was developed by LMT to provide a comprehensive solution for developing, testing, and pricing baskets of financial instruments. BasketTrader dramatically simplifies developing and testing equity, currency, and commodity-linked baskets. Using BasketTrader, the turnaround time for basket pricing to clients can be reduced from hours to minutes. This has been a key to winning business for LMT's clients.