The combined offering is targeted at hedge funds, proprietary trading desks and other financial institutions requiring high-speed access to massive volumes of accurate time series and tick data for back-testing and operating automated and algorithmic trading strategies.

It brings together TimeScape’s storage, data management and customizable analytics capabilities and 4th Story’s strategy back-testing and execution platform.

Deriving clean data for back-testing and automated trading is a key issue for our clients, explained Brian Sentance, CEO at Xenomorph. By combining the best in data management with the best in automated trading, Xenomorph and 4th Story are providing customers with the ability to automate the processing of data that matters, quickly eliminate data that doesn’t and execute on trading opportunities.