{"id":132835,"date":"2020-05-07T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=132835"},"modified":"2020-05-08T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:19:10","slug":"strix-leviathan-launches-proprietary-trading-platform-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/strix-leviathan-launches-proprietary-trading-platform-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Strix Leviathan launches proprietary trading platform Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strix Leviathan, a quantitative investment management firm, has launched its proprietary trading platform called <a href=\"https:\/\/strixleviathan.com\/crypto-fund-platform\">Octopus<\/a>. The platform is a product of more than two years of work, offering its users an enterprise-grade portfolio management system specifically tailored for cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<h2>Strix\u2019s new trading platform uses advanced algorithmic trading strategies<\/h2>\n<p>Minimizing human judgment in crypto investing is the basis of <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/strix-leviathan-the-crypto-quant-fund-thats-beating-the-market-with-a-differentiated-investment-approach\/\">Strix Leviathan\u2019s<\/a> business model\u2014the company\u2019s fund is almost completely run by advanced quantitative trading algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>After spending more than two years building an enterprise-grade portfolio management system that is tailored for digital assets, Strix Leviathan launched its proprietary trading platform Octopus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company\u2019s announcement, the trading platform will have Strix\u2019s distinct technical advantage, applying quantitative trading strategies to cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency indexes.<\/p>\n<p>Trading data will be pulled from the various leading exchanges and brokers on the market by Strix\u2019s proprietary Data Ingestion Engine. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will then be applied to those data sets to create trading strategies. These strategies, Strix said, are all optimized to volatile market conditions that exist in digital asset markets.<\/p>\n<h2>Managing risk with a robust backtesting engine<\/h2>\n<p>The Octopus trading platform will have several key features, the most notable being a Portfolio Manager. The tool will use real-time risk management statistics provided by Strix\u2019s software platform to assess the health and performance of the investment fund.<\/p>\n<p>Real-time trading data is gathered from eight different exchanges, allowing Octopus to generate synthetic spot pricing. 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