More Data, Hardware Choices For Market Vision Subscribers

Market Vision Corp. is expanding the amount of data available on its trading analytics service and increasing the number of hardware configurations for the system.

The New York-based company plans to provide inside government securities quotes from RMJ Securities, Inc. in real-time graphic form. Distribution of RMJ's Treasury prices will be limited to primary dealers and firms recognized by the New York Fed as aspiring dealers.

Market Vision also plans to add energy data from Platt's Global Alert, the electronic information service of McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Subscribers to Market Vision will have access to five years of cash crude and product price ranges, real-time tick data and price history for energy futures contracts and weekly supply statistics from the American Petroleum Institute.

Next year, the company will begin carrying cash foreign exchange prices from Morgan

Guaranty, says William Adiletta, vice president, engineering.

Until recently, Market Vision was sold as a turnkey system available only on the IBM RT. The company is now supplying its software, datafeed, and high-resolution graphics for implementation on a variety of other platforms.

At the Unix Expo held October 27th-29th at the Javits Center, Market Vision was showing its system on a Sun Microsystems, Inc. workstation.

Sun's network file system will make Market Vision's applications available on a distributed network, says Bruce Golden financial services manager for Sun. Market Vision "will no longer be a box stuck in the corner," he says.

Golden says Sun workstations will allow Wall Street firms to increase their productivity despite layoffs and tighter budgets. "During the last few weeks, there were bottlenecks and a number of traders could not determine their market exposure," he says. "These problems can be conquered with automation."

In line with Market Vision's goal offering greater hardware flexibility, the company recently ported its system to the Compaq 386 and is holding discussions with other vendors, including Digital Equipment Corp.