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Qbitia is pleased to announce that the Technical Analyst Awards 2021 have once again recognized QCAID as the best trading platform in the strategy development category, ahead of smartTrade Technologies and Tradesignal. Our platform won this same award last year and in 2016. The video at the end of this post shows the moment when our CEO Luis Taboada received the award for the first time in 2016.

These awards, organized by The Technical Analyst, are the only ones that are focused on technical analysis, financial information and trading software for the institutional market at a global level. The most prestigious firms in the financial sector have submitted their applications to participate since the awards were created thirteen years ago.

The team at Qbitia wishes to thank the organizers of the Technical Analyst Awards for their nods. The evolution of our automatic trading platform has always been rewarded by being included among the finalists every year since 2015:

• – 2015. Nominated as “Best Automated Trading Product: Strategy Development”.
• – 2016. Winner “Best Automated Trading Product: Strategy Development”. Nominated as “Best Automated Trading Product: Product Execution”.
• – 2017. Nominated as “Best Trading System”.
• – 2018. Nominated as “Best Trading System”.
• – 2019. Nominated as “Best Trading System”.
• – 2020. Winner “Best Trading System: Strategy Development”. Nominated as “Best Trading System: Execution”.
• – 2021. Winner “Best Trading System: Strategy Development”. Nominated as “Best Trading System: Execution”.

Our participation at the Technical Analyst Awards encourages us to continue growing and developing QCAID to offer the best solution to our clients.

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Qbitia se complace en anunciar que los Technical Analyst Awards 2021 han vuelto a reconocer a QCAID como la mejor plataforma de trading en el apartado de desarrollo de estrategias, por delante de smartTrade Technologies y Tradesignal. La plataforma de Qbitia obtuvo este mismo galardón en la edición del año pasado y en la de 2016. El vídeo al final de este post muestra el momento en que nuestro CEO Luis Taboada recogió el premio por primera vez en 2016.

El certamen, organizado por la publicación británica The Technical Analyst, es el único a nivel global dedicado al análisis técnico, la información financiera y el software de trading para el mercado institucional. En sus trece ediciones, las firmas más prestigiosas del sector financiero han enviado sus candidaturas para hacerse con alguno de los galardones.

Desde Qbitia queremos expresar nuestro agradecimiento a la organización de los Technical Analyst Awards por su consideración hacia QCAID. La evolución de nuestra plataforma de trading automático siempre se ha visto recompensada, al ser incluida entre los finalistas de estos premios en todas sus ediciones desde 2015, tanto en la categoría de desarrollo de estrategias como en la de ejecución:

• – 2015. Nominación como “Mejor producto de trading automático: desarrollo de estrategia”.
• – 2016. Premio al “Mejor producto de trading automático: desarrollo de estrategia”. Nominación como “Mejor producto de trading automático: ejecución”.
• – 2017. Nominación como “Mejor sistema de trading”.
• – 2018. Nominación como “Mejor sistema de trading”.
• – 2019. Nominación como “Mejor sistema de trading”.
• – 2020. Premio al “Mejor sistema de trading: desarrollo de estrategia”. Nominación como “Mejor sistema de trading: ejecución”.
• – 2021. Premio al “Mejor sistema de trading: desarrollo de estrategia”. Nominación como “Mejor sistema de trading: ejecución”.

Nuestra participación en los Technical Analyst Awards nos impulsa a seguir creciendo y desarrollando QCAID para ofrecer la mejor solución a nuestros clientes.

We are glad to inform you that Qbitia keeps on growing. An agreement for the merger of the consulting business of Solventis and the software development business of Qbitia has been reached this March, with the aim of consolidating a new leading competitor in the field of financial technology.

Thanks to this operation, Qbitia’s automated trading and data integration capabilities will be a part of Solventis, one of the main financial groups in Spain, which has provided wealth and real estate management, corporate finance and financial consulting services since 2002, anticipating a successful future together.

Alberto Moro, CEO of Solventis, stated: “Solventis and Qbitia send a clear message to their clients and to the market by joining forces in the business of financial and technological consulting.” “By taking advantage of our strengths and with a sustainable business development, we will create a leading company with better growth prospects”, he added.

Luis Taboada, CEO of Qbitia, declared that, “thanks to this agreement, Qbitia will not only continue developing its current strategic business lines, but will also integrate those provided by Solventis and go forward with new ones, resulting from synergies of the capacities of both firms”.

With this merger, Qbitia and Solventis look forward to the project of creating a new leader in the market.

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Nos alegra comunicaros que Qbitia crece. Este mes de marzo se ha cerrado un acuerdo para la fusión de los negocios de consultoría de Solventis y de desarrollo de software de Qbitia, con la finalidad de consolidar un nuevo competidor líder en el ámbito de la tecnología para las finanzas.

Gracias a esta operación, las capacidades de trading automático e integración de datos de Qbitia se unirán a Solventis, un gran grupo financiero que presta servicios de gestión patrimonial e inmobiliaria, corporate finance y consultoría financiera desde el año 2002, conformando una gran entidad que busca afrontar un futuro de éxito en conjunto.

Alberto Moro, consejero delegado de Solventis, ha declarado respecto a esta operación: “Solventis y Qbitia envían un mensaje claro a sus clientes y al mercado al unir sus fuerzas en el negocio de la consultoría financiera y tecnológica”. “Aprovechando nuestras fortalezas y con un desarrollo de negocio sostenible, vamos a crear una empresa líder con mejores perspectivas de crecimiento”, ha añadido.

Por su parte, Luis Taboada, consejero delegado de Qbitia, ha señalado que, “gracias a este acuerdo, Qbitia no solo seguirá desarrollando sus líneas estratégicas de negocio actuales, sino que integrará las aportadas por Solventis y apostará por otras nuevas, surgidas de las sinergias de las capacidades de ambos”.

Tras la fusión, ambas partes nos embarcamos en un proyecto apasionante que afrontamos con ilusión y esperamos que desemboque en el nacimiento de un nuevo operador de referencia en el mercado.

A new edition of Robotrader World is here. The worldwide contest for students who would like to discover algorithmic trading has started at the Polytechnic University of Madrid this February.

This year, QCAID iSystems Edition has had the chance to be part of the contest alongside Trading Motion. QCAID iSystems Edition is a really easy platform for beginners (programming skills are not required) and a great option for those who master trading and wish to earn some money with it. And all this because QCAID iSystems Edition is not a common platform: it allows you to design and rent your strategies in the marketplace of iSystems. Also, QCAID iSystems Edition is completely free (you can download it by clicking here).

In addition, Robotrader has a training part which offers courses and conferences. One of them was held by our R&D Director Marcos Suárez and by Victor Martin from iSystems (Trading Motion in Spain), who explained how easy it is to create algos and start earning money with QCAID iSystems Edition.

Luis Taboada, CEO of Qbitia, has been included on the top 100 Spanish Economic Leaders for Tomorrow Choiseul List 2018 for the second year in a row. This ranking looks for the best young professional leaders between 30 and 42 years old that excel in terms of influence, aptitudes, reputation or leadership. Now Luis Taboada shares this honor with leaders of major companies such as Santander, Cabify or Uber.

Qbitia has growed notably in the last years, increasing its presence around the world, operating in more than 35 countries and extending its clients list to North America and Asia. In fact, Qbitia has won one of the most important awards in the fintech sector: the Asia Capital Markets Awards 2018 by Singapore’s FOW Global Investor Group.

Nevertheless, Luis Taboada remarks that all these achievements would not have been possible without Marcos Suárez (Qbitia’s R&D Manager & cofounder), Francisco M. Román (Qbitia’s COO & cofounder) and all of Qbitia’s team.

Qbitia is glad to announce the launch of Qcaid iSystems Edition. This new version of QCAID offers traders an additional way to benefit from the strategies developed on QCAID by renting them on the marketplace of iSystems.

Now you can take advantage of QCAID designing capabilities to easily create your algos and then upload them to iSystems, the marketplace for automated strategies. With QCAID’s drag & drop editor, you don’t need programming skills to automate your trading ideas and to execute them with different kinds of assets. QCAID also provides access to market data, an extensive library of functions and indicators and a realistic testing environment, among other useful features. And all this free of charge for strategy developers.

Once your automated strategies are uploaded to iSystems, only the results of the strategies will be published, so that clients can see their performance and choose which one to rent. The logic and design of your algos will remain confidential at all times.

Making money with QCAID iSystems Edition is very easy:

1. Download the platform for free here.
2. Design your trading strategy.
3. Upload your strategy just by clicking a button.
4. Choose the licensing fee for your systems.
5. Your systems will be available for rent on the iSystems marketplace.
6. You can track your followers and how many leases you have sold in real time.

In short, QCAID iSystems Edition and your trading ideas will make you earn money with no programming skills, no risks and no costs.

You can find more information on QCAID iSystems Edition website and on this video.

At Qbitia, we are really happy to share amazing news with you. Our prize-winning product QCAID has a new prestigious award. Our algorithmic trading platform has won the Asia Capital Markets Awards 2018 by Singapore’s FOW Global Investor Group in the category of “Best new product, trading and execution”.

As you might know, Qbitia is an algorithmic trading platform that allows the investors to design their strategies in an easy way with its drag and drop interface. “This is a very nice software kit which makes algorithmic trading available to a wider audience without requirement for coding skills” said one of the judges of the FOW awards about QCAID.

This last years, Qbitia’s product QCAID, was nominated and became winner of so many international prizes, but, in 2018, for the first time, QCAID has won this recognized Asian Award by The FOW Global Investor Group. It is an honor for Qbitia, ant its winner product QCAID, to share a place in the Asian Capital Markets Awards with the most leading companies in this sector, our sector, such as Trading Technologies, Fidessa, Citi, or Societe Generale.

Bitcoin futures have just launched on Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) and CME Group… and they are available for trading on QCAID. The new futures contracts will provide exposure to bitcoin without having to keep units of this popular cryptocurrency.

In addition, this launching will also provide greater transparency and an increase in liquidity, allowing traders to have wider access to pricing data and to manage their position risk. The bitcoin as an asset will also benefit from this participation in a highly-regulated market.

“At launch, our new Bitcoin futures contract will be subject to a variety of risk management tools, including an initial margin of 35 percent, position and intraday price limits, and a number of other risk and credit controls that CME Group offers on all of its products”, said Terry Duffy, CME Group Chairman and CEO.

The new instrument “provides a centralized marketplace for participants to trade based on their view of bitcoin prices, gain exposure to bitcoin prices or hedge their existing bitcoin positions”, according to Cboe.

The effect of the new instruments

The main concern about Bitcoin is its volatility, since the value of the cryptocurrency reacts strongly to sensitive market news and to the confidence in the asset itself. Although these fluctuations have tended to decrease, some experts remain cautious about its stability. Now futures contracts could contribute to reduce volatility, thus increasing market efficiency.

Bitcoin exchanges are the main marketplace for this cryptocurrency, although they are not the only one, as investments in Bitcoin are on the rise. That’s why some major banks and funds have warned about the effects that a potential bubble could have. Even the US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton has advised investors to “exercise extreme caution and be aware of the risk”. And Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen called the digital currency a “highly speculative asset”.

Despite all this buzz around Bitcoin, blockchain technology, the public ledger of cryptocurrency transactions, seems to be here to stay. The French Government, for instance, plans to allow the trading of some non-listed securities using the blockchain technology. This may help cryptocurrencies to prove that they are not a fad.

You can find the Bitcoin futures on QCAID with the new tickers F.US.XBT and F.US.BTC

CFE BitCoin

• Ticker: F.US.XBT
• Exchange: CBOE Exchange Futures
• Description: Cash-settled futures contracts based on the Gemini Exchange auction price for bitcoin in U.S. dollars.
• Contract unit equal to 1 bitcoin.
• Tradable since December 11th

CME BitCoin

• Ticker: F.US.BTC
• Exchange: CME on GLOBEX
• Description: Cash-settled futures contracts based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate.
• Contract unit equal to 5 bitcoins.
• Tradable since December 18th