So I finally got round to reading this article sent to me a few days back regarding the company I work for.

In a nutshell: Royalblue’s (RYB) core Fidessa system provides electronic trading software for equities. The company also provides market data terminals and a connectivity network, and last year launched an execution management system for buy-side companies as well as developing a derivatives trading platform that launched during the first half of this year.

The idea is to continue to add asset classes to the system, starting with derivatives. The company announced today its first customer to take both the equities and derivatives trading software, Insinger de Beaufort. Broker Bridgewell says that the shares at this price are not exactly cheap, 'However, the strong top-line growth recurring revenue profile and excellent market position mean we are comfortable with our Overweight stance.' George O'Connor, technology analyst at Shore Capital said: 'While this is a premium rating, we see few companies with a similarly robust business model with gorilla characteristics in their core end markets and where the revenue visibility helps to de-risk forecasts. We retain our Buy recommendation.'

Citywire Verdict:
There is a huge amount of momentum in electronic trading across the globe and Royalblue, having already carved a strong niche in cash equities, looks very well placed to add derivatives and further instruments types. The network will add exponential strength to the whole offer, and while it may be nerve-wracking to buy at the current price, take a longer term view.

This means our price rises. Yea .. wherever I go there is progress - me stud me!Evidence in addition to the above is that the current share price is 808 .. it was 649 when I started!!