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Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading Launches NightOwl(SM).


New Algorithm Will Simultaneously Navigate Select Dark Pools and Quoted Markets to Provide Clients with Access to the Most Natural Liquidity Possible

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 tool that navigates select dark liquidity pools and quoted markets to provide clients with access to the most natural liquidity possible. NightOwl is available as a direct trading destination or indirectly through Morgan Stanley's existing algorithmic trading Algorithmic Trading

A trading system that utilizes very advanced mathematical models for making transaction decisions in the financial markets. The strict rules built into the model attempt to determine the optimal time for an order to be placed that will cause the least amount of
 offerings. The new stealth algorithm utilizes Morgan Stanley's proprietary analysis of dark liquidity pools to avoid interaction with those dark pools that disclose client order information through Indications of Interests (IOIs). This, in turn, minimizes information leakage Information leakage happens whenever a system that is designed to be closed to an eavesdropper reveals some information to unauthorized parties nonetheless. For example, when designing an encrypted instant messaging network, a network engineer without the capacity to crack your  in the handling of its clients' orders.

"We are pleased to offer this new trading tool in response to increased client concern about having their order information disclosed through IOIs," said Andrew Silverman, Managing Director, Head of Distribution, Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading. "NightOwl helps our clients achieve best execution in both quoted and dark markets while protecting their individual trading strategies."

NightOwl is currently available to clients and leverages Morgan Stanley's recently announced reciprocal dark pool arrangements.

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