The financial market business is facing an always greater level of complexity: more information, more asset classes, higher need of support in decision-making, higher process costs, proliferation of regulations are a few examples.

The financial market business is facing an always greater level of complexity: more information, more asset classes, higher need of support in decision-making, higher process costs, proliferation of regulations are a few examples.

The financial market business is facing an always greater level of complexity: more information, more asset classes, higher need of support in decision-making, higher process costs, proliferation of regulations are a few examples.

SPARKLINGROCKS® offers solutions, training and consulting for development and implementation of financial strategies. 

Jagged Island® is our ready-to-business platform for decision-making support and financial markets operations.

SPARKLINGROCKS® offers solutions, training and consulting for development and implementation of financial strategies. 

Jagged Island® is our ready-to-business platform for decision-making support and financial markets operations.

SPARKLINGROCKS® offers solutions for providing training and consulting for the development and implementation of financial strategies. 

Jagged Island® is our ready-to-business platform for decision-making support and financial markets operations.

Unlike other solutions, Jagged Island® is a unique quant-friendly platform designed to manage the entire decision-making process: from development and testing strategies to monitoring financial KPIs across multiple asset classes, in real-time and through a wide set of tools dedicated to all stakeholders, including compliance.

Unlike other solutions, Jagged Islandᆴ is a unique quant-friendly platform designed to manage the entire decision-making process: from developing and testing strategies to monitoring financial KPIs across multiple asset classes, in real-time and through a wide set of tools dedicated to all stakeholders, including compliance.

Unlike other solutions, Jagged Islandᆴ is a unique quant-friendly platform designed to manage the entire decision-making process: from developing and testing strategies to monitoring financial KPIs across multiple asset classes, in real-time and through a wide set of tools dedicated to all stakeholders, including compliance.

Easily adaptable

Business Areas

Business Areas

Jagged Island® adapts to different business needs thanks to its modularity, boosting your business with automation, scalability, programmability and high value-added features. SPARKLINGROCKS® also provides all the flexibility required to implement specific features and customisations for your business.

Jagged Island® adapts to different business needs thanks to its modularity, boosting your business with automation, scalability, programmability and high value-added features. SPARKLINGROCKS® also provides all the flexibility required to implement specific features and customisations for your business.

Proprietary trading

Access the finest opportunities provided by the financial markets.

Fund Management

Ensure close and automatic adherence to the fund's stated investment strategy.

Brokerage

Provide a wide range of services with high technological and financial content.

Wealth Management

Automate the customization of investments by enhancing quality standards.

Advisory

Offer broad coverage, rich in information and customizable.

Proprietary trading

Access the finest opportunities provided by the financial markets.

Fund Management

Ensure close and automatic adherence to the fund's stated investment strategy.

Brokerage

Provide a wide range of services with high technological and financial content.

Wealth Management

Automate the customization of investments by enhancing quality standards.

Advisory

Offer broad coverage, rich in information and customizable.

Proprietary trading

Access the finest opportunities provided by the financial markets.

Fund Management

Ensure close and automatic adherence to the fund's stated investment strategy.

Brokerage

Provide a wide range of services with high technological and financial content.

Wealth Management

Automate the customization of investments by enhancing quality standards.

Advisory

Offer broad coverage, rich in information and customizable.

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The Intelligent Quant Trading

Workflow

Jagged Island® fully supports the ideal IQ Trading workflow, allowing you to focus only on the development of your business ideas by providing all the integrations necessary to the production of your decision-making and operational strategies. We provide an organized workflow from the development stage to the live production, covering every aspect of your business.

Development

Code and test your models

Tech Test

Check the technical performance of your strategies

Trading

Enable quant trading or support discretionary trading

Strategy

Configure your portfolios, instruments and models into strategies

Financial Test

Check the financial performance of your strategies

Modular Power

Jagged Island’s features

Jagged Island’s features

TECH TEST
TECH TEST
A dedicated environment to perform technical stress tests on models and obtain related reports. Ensure robust, fail-proof models for production, generating evidence required by MIFID II or any other regulations.
LIVE TEST
LIVE TEST
​Live testing environment for  multiple strategies where users can setup their dashboards to observe the evolution of financial results and the behavior of models. Detailed financial reports can be obtained for compliance or other relevant stakeholdelrs.
ADB
Advanced Backtesting
ADB
Advanced Backtesting
Designed for high speed tick-by-tick backtesting on multiple financial instruments. This module is designed to integrate advanced tools, like AI-based parametric optimization.  Detailed financial reports provide information on model parameters and portfolio constraints used.
MVW
Model Validation Workflow
MVW
Model Validation Workflow
Designed to speed up, improve and facilitate the compliance validation process specific to your organization, this module provide a step-by-step approach that allows to promote models through technical test, backtest and production environments.
TECH TEST
TECH TEST
A dedicated environment to perform technical stress tests on models and obtain related reports. Ensure robust, fail-proof models for production, generating evidence required by MIFID II or any other regulations.
LIVE TEST
LIVE TEST
​Live testing environment for  multiple strategies where users can setup their dashboards to observe the evolution of financial results and the behavior of models. Detailed financial reports can be obtained for compliance or other relevant stakeholdelrs.
ADB
Advanced Backtesting
ADB
Advanced Backtesting
Designed for high speed tick-by-tick backtesting on multiple financial instruments. This module is designed to integrate advanced tools, like AI-based parametric optimization.  Detailed financial reports provide information on model parameters and portfolio constraints used.
MVW
Model Validation Workflow
MVW
Model Validation Workflow
Designed to speed up, improve and facilitate the compliance validation process specific to your organization, this module provide a step-by-step approach that allows to promote models through technical test, backtest and production environments.
RPK
Real-time Position Keeping
RPK
Real-time Position Keeping
A real-time position keeping to monitor your position’s financial and risk indicators on assets, portfolios and higher aggregates. RPK data is also available to models for implementing Active Risk Management.
ARM
Active Risk Management
ARM
Active Risk Management
Traders can integrate risk and return indicators from Real-Time Position Keeping into models in the same way as other data, incorporating them into your operativity by making forecasts and relevant adjustments.
RBA
Real-time Business Analytics
RBA
Real-time Business Analytics
This module provides alternative analytics of your operativity and allows you to detect in real-time unexpected behaviors and distortions, comparing production indicators to backtest and live test results, thus helping to draw up annual self-assessments.
ACM
Active Constraint Manager
ACM
Active Constraint Manager
Allows you to set automatic position and risk constraints on portfolios and assets. Simplifies the development of strategies avoiding to code constraint management conditions in your models. ACM, together with Active Risk Management, enables maximum control of your strategies.
RPK
Real-time Position Keeping
RPK
Real-time Position Keeping
A real-time position keeping to monitor your position’s financial and risk indicators on assets, portfolios and higher aggregates. RPK data is also available to models for implementing Active Risk Management.
ARM
Active Risk Management
ARM
Active Risk Management
Traders can integrate risk and return indicators from Real-Time Position Keeping into models in the same way as other data, incorporating them into your operativity by making forecasts and relevant adjustments.
RBA
Real-time Business Analytics
RBA
Real-time Business Analytics
This module provides alternative analytics of your operativity and allows you to detect in real-time unexpected behaviors and distortions, comparing production indicators to backtest and live test results, thus helping to draw up annual self-assessments.
ACM
Active Constraint Manager
ACM
Active Constraint Manager
Allows you to set automatic position and risk constraints on portfolios and assets. Simplifies the development of strategies avoiding to code constraint management conditions in your models. ACM, together with Active Risk Management, enables maximum control of your strategies.
MDE
Model
Development
Environment
MDE
Model Development Environment
Ensures autonomous coding, easy testing, and Intellectual Property protection. APIs for mainstream programming languages offer real-time data access, including data for Active Risk Management.

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We help you with

The adoption process

The adoption process

SPARKLINGROCKS® adapts to your state of the art and sticks to your trading automation adoption process.

SPARKLINGROCKS® adapts to your state of the art and sticks to your trading automation adoption process.

Idea

You are considering to adopt an Intelligent Quant Trading as a complement to your trading activity and you need to build a business case that implements your investment logic.

You are considering to adopt an Intelligent Quant Trading as a complement to your trading activity and you need to build a business case that implements your investment logic.

We provide advice and help building your business case

We provide advice and help building your business case

Proof of Concept

You already created a prototipal strategy, understood its positive impact and want to realise a production application.

You already created a prototipal strategy, understood its positive impact and want to realise a production application.

We help you building your application

We help you building your application

Development

You are into the implementation phase of your strategy and you are dealing with the backlog of all the functionalities you need.

You are into the implementation phase of your strategy and you are dealing with the backlog of all the functionalities you need.

We facilitate your go to market

We facilitate your go to market

Production

Your strategy is already in production and you need to scale it up with adavanced functionalities.

Your strategy is already in production and you need to scale it up with adavanced functionalities.

We improve your process with a wide set of advanced functionalities

We improve your process with a wide set of advanced functionalities

Advanced Technology Solutions

Bologna
University

GrEnFin

company

Who are we?

Who are we?

We are an innovative startup that designs and develops cutting-edge solutions to facilitate the radical use of quantitative finance and artificial intelligence to automate trading activities on the financial markets. Our team is built around excellence and is backed up by the expertise of ATS, a leading player in the capital markets business with 30 years of experience.

We are an innovative startup that designs and develops cutting-edge solutions to facilitate the radical use of quantitative finance and artificial intelligence to automate trading activities on the financial markets. Our team is built around excellence and is backed up by the expertise of ATS, a leading player in the capital markets business with 30 years of experience.

about us

Our Team

Our Team

"Sparklingrocks is a cocktail of quants, developers and designers"

"Sparklingrocks is a cocktail of quants, developers and designers"

2

Product Design

4

Quant & Analysis

11

Development

2

Marketing & Sales

5

Operation & Support

The Intelligent Quant Trading

Workflow

Jagged Island® fully support the ideal IQ Trading workflow, allowing you to focus only on the development of your business ideas by providing all the integrations necessary to the production of your decision-making and operational strategies. We provide an organized workflow from the development stage to the live production, covering every aspect of your business.

Development

Development

Code and test your models

Strategy

Strategy

Configure your portfolios, instruments and models into strategies

Tech Test

Tech Test

Check the technical performance of your strategies

Financial Test

Financial Test

Check the financial performance of your strategies

Trading

Trading

Enable quant trading or support discretionary trading

Enable quant trading or support discretionary trading

The Intelligent Quant Trading

Workflow

Workflow

Jagged Island® fully support the ideal IQ Trading workflows, allowing you to focus only on the development of your business ideas by providing all the integrations necessary to the production of your decision-making and operational strategies. We provide an organized workflow from the development stage to the live production, covering every aspect of your business.

Development

Development

Code and test your models

Strategy

Strategy

Configure your portfolios, instruments and models into strategies

Tech Test

Tech Test

Check the technical performance of your strategies

Financial Test

Financial Test

Check the financial performance of your strategies

Trading

Trading

Enable quant trading or support discretionary trading

Enable quant trading or support discretionary trading

Copyright © Sparkling Rocks | P.IVA 10425330965

Copyright © Sparkling Rocks

P.IVA 10425330965

Via Montefeltro, 6 – 20156 Milano - Italy

Via Montefeltro, 6 – 20156 Milano - Italy