Open source trading platform could be a win for Wall Street

“The project, which has been under development for over two
years, is the brainchild of CEO Graham Miller and CTO Toli Kuznets,
a pair of Stanford computer scientists. I spoke with them on Monday
and learned more about the technology. The Marketcetera Trading
Platform is built with Java and is designed to facilitate rapid
deployment and ease of extension. It provides APIs and a JRuby
scripting engine for extending it with additional functionality and
specialized behaviors. The developers say that fairly complex
trading strategies can be implemented with only a few lines of
Ruby.”

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