Software Options has been building proprietary trading systems for many years. We have observed the following:
Proprietary trading systems take a long time to develop and as a result are expensive to build.
Once a trader wants a system, they want to be up and running yesterday.
Building a system from scratch is like completely reinventing the wheel.
All Trading Systems have many common features. They provide the following functionality:
Quotes
Profit and Loss
Order Entry
Position Management
Risk Management
What differentiates one trading system from another?
Proprietary behavior
User Interface
Speed
Alpha Edge was developed as a framework for rapidly developing algorithms and proprietary trading systems. It achieves this by allowing for the development of custom modules which plugin to an existing framework. The result is black box trading system developed in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost.
