PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Jeff Gavin TI - The OMS DP - 2006 Mar 20 TA - Trading PG - 38--40 VI - 2006 IP - 1 4099 - http://guides.pm-research.com/content/2006/1/38.short 4100 - http://guides.pm-research.com/content/2006/1/38.full AB - As the popularity of algorithmic trading heats up and as the sell side continues to refine their existing algorithms and add new tools, it is getting harder and harder for traders to distinguish between the growing numbers of algorithms offered by all the different brokers and to determine which broker's algorithm to include in their trading strategy. The OMS vendor's job isn't to tell their clients which broker's algorithm to use or how to use it. Instead, they must provide clients with access to all the execution tools that they need.