Imagine Software

Vijaypotukuchi · January 19th, 2005, 7:41 am

Anybody in the forum heard of Imagine Software?Are they a reputable firm (i.e. they claim on their website that their founder is ex Wall St head of derivatives trading)? Their website (www.derivatives.com) suggests that they have some tier 1 IB and hedge fund clients.

SyntheticallyLong · January 21st, 2005, 12:09 am

i think the software is fairly sophisticated..i know they fired everyone in asia a few years back. i think when a big client (dresdner) shut equity & eq derivs. quick look at their website..i see they say "state of the art yield curve", but doesnt really say why..just some marketing spiel..

DrBen · January 21st, 2005, 7:34 am

Sorry for getting off the point, but over the past few years there has something like "marketing spielinflation". Basically, everything is `state of the art', or `best of breed', even `top notch'. Terms like`leading' just do not cut it anymore.

baghead · January 21st, 2005, 10:30 am

dresdner has not closed down their EQ /EQ derivs business (at least not yet) and they are still working with imagine software....If you consider DrKW as a tier 1 IB the statement below is true....

linuxuser99 · January 21st, 2005, 11:06 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: DrBenSorry for getting off the point, but over the past few years there has something like "marketing spielinflation". Basically, everything is `state of the art', or `best of breed', even `top notch'. Terms like`leading' just do not cut it anymore.Yes yes - but they're object based, multi platform, service oriented, n-tier. So they must be good.

tbonds · January 23rd, 2005, 1:35 am

I am currently testing there software for converts/equities.Have only used it a few times.Only problem I've had is that is didn't calc a VaR for a NXTL position, but maybe the program is missing static data or something.Anyway, tech supp is looking into it.Also, I'd like to see more than 2yrs of hist data for VaR calc.I need 5yrs. Again, they are looking into gettting it added.I also know they just fixed the variance swap model so that now it works. I assume you are looking to work for them?

SyntheticallyLong · January 24th, 2005, 4:26 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: bagheaddresdner has not closed down their EQ /EQ derivs business (at least not yet) and they are still working with imagine software....baghead, is that true for asia? let me know.thx

SyntheticallyLong · January 24th, 2005, 4:26 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: bagheaddresdner has not closed down their EQ /EQ derivs business (at least not yet) and they are still working with imagine software....If you consider DrKW as a tier 1 IB the statement below is true....

SyntheticallyLong · January 24th, 2005, 4:26 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: bagheaddresdner has not closed down their EQ /EQ derivs business (at least not yet) and they are still working with imagine software....If you consider DrKW as a tier 1 IB the statement below is true....