Archive of Trading Technology
The History and Evolution of Executing Futures
Plaformability is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a highly skilled, tightly aligned London based software development team dedicated to creating frameworks for single-dealer platforms (SDPs). We dedicate this blog to writing about the technology that fuels SDP’s, but did you know that we also write about trading in…
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FinTech New York Hackathon Round-Up
FinTech Round-Up After some much needed sleep we’re able to reflect on the inspired (and at times manic) hacking that took place this weekend in New York. Over 30 teams presented their demos competing for the grand prize of $10,000 from Novus. Hack Projects The various hacking projects can be…
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Hack Day Report: Building Custom ExtJS Components for Trading
Hack Day had rolled around once again in the office, and this time our idea was simple but ambitious – could we knock together a tool in 24 hours that would enable developers with no web development experience to create a fully featured web trading application?
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‘Magic Ink’ and the evils of interaction design!
Over on Coding the Markets there is an interesting discussion around Bret Victor and his treatise on UI design ‘Magic Ink‘ from (2006) where he uncovers the evils of interaction design Here is my contribution to the discussion: Yes Bret Victor is a real inspiration. I have copies of most…
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Project Dashboard – Part 1
With dozens of products in development at any one point in time, staying informed of the overall health of current projects can be like trying to count cards at a 6 deck blackjack table while the croupier sings the 12 days of Christmas. Caplin have decided to develop the Project…
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Caplin Thrower – Mobile Hackday Project
While the rise of internet-capable mobile devices has solved a lot of problems, it has also brought a host of new problems with it. One problem you may encounter is that as your customers are now using multiple devices to access your service, they are having to continuously switch context…
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How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way
An interesting article on the forthcoming Adobe Flash Player 11 and the evolution of Silverlight:
Read MoreTrading front-ends handling a large number of instruments
Yesterday I prepared a client demonstration illustrating how trading front-ends can handle subscriptions to a large number of instruments. Equity derivative and fixed income trading front-ends often display long lists of products from extensive product databases. Front-ends traditionally interact with market data platforms using the ‘publish/subscribe’ paradigm, but a subscription…
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