With its modular, integration-friendly architecture, Marketcetera makes it easy to start with the components you need and integrate additional custom modules and system functionality as requirements change. You’ll achieve unprecedented levels of trade automation, all at your own pace.

Marketcetera’s open source approach gives you a robust, reliable and secure trading platform with unparalleled transparency and extensibility. Use the platform as-is or as a base on which to build your own customized solution. Either way you’ll go to market more quickly and at a far lower cost.

The Marketcetera Automated Trading Platform is comprised of the following five categories of components:

Data Nexus

Integrate multiple market data streams and reference data into Marketcetera with Data Nexus. Enabling connectivity to multiple sources, low latency transformation and real-time dissemination to other components on the platform, Data Nexus includes pre-built market data adapters and provides a consistent architecture for quickly and non-invasively integrating additional types of real-time, historical and reference data.

Signal Analytics

Signal Analytics components enable integrated data analysis, distillation and signal generation capabilities on the Marketcetera platform. Pre-integrated with Data Nexus, Signal Analytics components provide plug-in access to modules such as Complex Event Processing, which processes real-time market data streams and distills data as per stream query instructions applied by individual strategies.

Strategy Studio

Strategy Studio provides an integrated environment for strategy lifecycle management. Use Strategy Studio to author, test and deploy strategies on Marketcetera Strategy Execution Engines and monitor trade execution in run-time. Author strategies in your choice of supported authoring environments, including Java, Ruby and Python. Strategy Studio enables rapid strategy development and reduces the “design-to-deploy” cycle for trading strategies through a comprehensive set of market data APIs, event stream queries and trading server connectivity. Strategy Studio also provides direct access to various real-time market data streams and order books and provides interfaces for single order entry, trade, position and P&L monitoring. Strategy Studio comes pre-integrated with Data Nexus and Signal Analytics.

Strategy Execution Engine

Marketcetera’s Strategy Execution Engine enables algorithmic execution of trading strategies and provides a complete run-time environment for running one or more strategies. Strategy authors can create data flows between strategies, as well as data flows between strategies and other Marketcetera modules. The Strategy Execution Engine is pre-integrated with Data Nexus and Signal Analytics, allowing strategies to access multiple market data streams at different levels of distillation. Whether you co-locate your strategies or run them yourself, Strategy Execution Engine enables you to scale your strategies easily and efficiently and with incredible reliability.

Order Routing Server

The Marketcetera Order Routing Server (ORS) enables electronic access to execution destinations, including broker connectivity, Direct Market Access and access to alternate liquidity pools. ORS provides bi-directional message handling and order reception from Strategy Studio (single orders) and the Strategy Execution Engine (algorithmic orders). ORS connects to brokerage and exchange destinations via FIX.