With COVID-19 spreading into a global pandemic, equities plummeted and market volatility rocketed upwards around the world. Panic trading brought massive trading volumes but the worst is not over. How to keep your business stable?
Every asset class has been hit as investors look to move their investments into less risky assets, driving massive trading volumes in every single trading day recently. While a typical busy trading day will see roughly twice the normal trading volumes, we’re currently seeing 5 times the normal volumes.
The financial damage from this will run well into the late summer as individual companies have issues and governments take action to try and correct their economies. Nevertheless, fund managers will be forced for the foreseeable future to continue to trade ‘business as usual’. For those who are not prioritising the resilience of their trading infrastructure and understanding the capacity limits now will find themselves on the long list of collateral fallout from COVID-19.
To begin future-proofing themselves, firms must first understand their present headroom. All systems have a limit of how many trades they can do per minute, yet many firms do not know what this limit is, let alone how to address potential points of failure. End the trial-and-error approach to capacity and get a handle on the exact volume their systems can house today.
With ITRS Capacity Planner, firms will be able to:
Calculate the present headroom
Identify where potential pinch points exist within their IT systems
Model and stress test ‘worst case’ scenarios, which then enables firms to put in place plans to deal with this
Predict what the systems can and cannot withstand with predictive scenario models such as ITRS’ ‘forward-thinking’ solution
Predictive and prescriptive analytics to quantify the effect of business or infrastructure changes on your application performance. Make more informed infrastructure decisions to optimise application performance.