Category: Trading Technology

When the digital world first became a workplace, trading platforms were adaptations of physical work environments evolved over many years for a niche group of highly skilled and specialized people. The burgeoning ...Read More

At predetermined times during the trading week economic data is released that can immediately impact the markets bringing spikes in liquidity and volatility. One only needs to look at the reaction of the British pound to the June Nonfarm Payroll number, ...Read More

Caplin Systems gave me the opportunity to attend my first conference in London last Friday; it was “Nudgestock” at Digital Shoreditch. The topic, ‘Behavioural Design’, has always interested me, and it ties in with my work at Caplin. It was an ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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. ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

An interesting article on the forthcoming Adobe Flash Player 11 and the evolution of Silverlight:http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/how-adobe-flash-lost-its-way-174444 ...Read More