“GOOD:
- Many strategies available for leasing
- Very detailed information available about strategies, including an equity curve, with backtest/monitored/live indication
- Quite easy activation/deactivation of strategies
BAD:
- Most strategies not tradeable, only a few can be used
- No background information on the strategies (from developer): approach, long/short, timeframe
- Not clear, if developers perform any re-optimization
- I received no feedback from iSystems at all, when I showed interest to provide strategies as a developer by myself
- Not clear which kind of reports the brokers can/will provide - to me experience, they are very limited, especially on the reporting side, which makes it difficult to spin up an own reporting. This is specifically a problem for e.g. tax reporting in Germany, which requires processing and reporting on the delivered statements.
OTHER:
- I would like to see an API interface for strategy selection/activation, to better support the selection process at least
- Given the low percentage of tradeable strategies, the selection process needs experience. It's risky to lease those blaxbox strategies. I still think that it is possible to make profits with iSystems.
- The iSystems webpage does not seem to be updated regulary.
- iSystems states AMP as a supporting broker, but AMP asked me to stop using iSystems in June 2026. Still AMP, is asking me for this survey 3 months later, as if they would still support it. This is strange.”
“Good: Good filtering possibilities when searching for strategies. Failing strategies are not hidden but still part of the list, which is transparent. Easy setup with AMP, easy to lease / start / stop strategies.
Could be better: AMP statements seem to be from the 70ties, more sophisticated reporting capabilities are missing (time of trade, contract code, CSV/XML exports, APIs), no possibility to have EUR as the base currency depsite the AMP FAQs tell differently.”
