Services: Marketcetera Consulting Services

Leverage the expertise of the technologists behind the Marketcetera Automated Trading Platform with Marketcetera Consulting Services. Our consultants not only know the Marketcetera platform inside and out, but also understand the market and trading lifecycle process, strategy development, trading system and deployment architectures and much more. Take advantage of this deep insight to make your deployment a success.

Our comprehensive consulting services offerings include:

Marketcetera Implementation and Rollout

Ensure a smooth product implementation and rollout and take advantage of the platform expertise of Marketcetera’s Professional Services consultants as well as the best practices they have developed over numerous client engagements. Our professionals manage every aspect of your Marketcetera project, ensuring a successful and timely deployment.

Service Components

  • Implementation project management
  • Implementation technical services including deployment architecture design, installation, configuration and rollout

Delivery

  • Provided on-site by Marketcetera project and technology professionals.

Benefits

  • Reduce your trading technology TCO and achieve significant cost-savings through an accelerated rollout of the Marketcetera Automated Trading Platform
  • Benefit from best practices and the platform expertise of Marketcetera professional services consultants

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Quick Start

Get your Marketcetera evaluation up and running as quickly as possible with our Quick Start Evaluation. Quick Start bundles essential product training, overviews of Marketcetera strategy development and configuration options, pilot deployment and basic support during your evaluation period. Components include:

Product Training

  • Marketcetera Automated Trading Platform overview
  • Strategy development using Strategy Studio

Product Pilot Deployment

  • Three month hosted Marketcetera instance
  • Example strategy development
  • Broker Certification for 1 FIX destination
  • Example strategy execution

Rollout Architecture

  • Deployment analysis
  • Architecture document for proposed production deployment

Support

  • Access to the Marketcetera Support Desk

Delivery

  • On-site visit by Marketcetera Professional Services staff
  • Remote support by the Marketcetera Support Desk

Benefits

  • Conduct an evaluation that is relevant to your specific needs
  • Fast, efficient evaluation completion

Pricing: Quick Start is offered at a fixed price of $20,000

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Strategy Implementation Consulting

Reduce the “design-to-deployment” cycle of your strategies with the help of Marketcetera’s Strategy Implementation Consulting services. Our professionals work closely with you to translate your custom trading strategies into optimized strategy scripts to be executed on Marketcetera. Strategies code development typically includes modules for proprietary black-box integration, opportunity discovery using optimized CEP queries, signal generation and order generation. Strategies are sandbox tested with live market data and a feedback loop is created to refine the strategy code.

Service Components

  • Strategy workflow overview
  • Module Framework overview — writing a sample module, data flow creation and wiring
  • Strategy development in Strategy Studio
  • Strategy Agent overview and walk through of sample strategies
  • Esper overview and walkthrough of possible Esper statements and approaches
  • Strategy code development, testing and deployment

Delivery

  • On- and off-site services from Marketcetera professionals

Benefits

  • Blazing fast “time-to-market” for new and ported strategies enables you to quickly test your strategies and capitalize on market opportunities

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Data and Integration Connectors Development

Get prioritized development for the market data and other standard risk and back-office integration adapters you need. Our development methodology supports the development of proprietary components as well as community contributions.

Service Components

  • Marketcetera market data API overview
  • Writing custom market data adapter
  • Integrating Marketcetera with proprietary systems
  • Adapter deployment on customer premise

Delivery

  • Hybrid off-site and on-site development and delivery by Marketcetera Professional Service

Benefits

  • Specific features and integration developed for your trading needs
  • Enables adoption of Marketcetera Open Source Automated Trading Platform in environments with specific market data/back-office integration needs
  • Reduced trading technology TCO

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Certified Broker Connectivity

Free yourself from the burden of normalizing disparities and maintaining broker connectivity over time with Marketcetera’s Certified Broker Connectivity offering. Connect to the execution venue of your choice without having to worry about maintaining the FIX connection. For existing adapters you’ll be up and running in just days, and if you need a custom adapter, Marketcetera will build one for you.

Service Components

  • Certified FIX connectivity to one or more brokers/execution venues

Delivery

  • Marketcetera professional services personnel
  • Hybrid off-site and on-site development and delivery

Benefits

  • Achieve significant cost-savings and reduced trading technology TCO by accelerating your production rollout of the Marketcetera Automated Trading Platform

Duration: Variable (typically 5-8 business days)

Target: Firms that have deployed the Marketcetera Open Source Automated Trading Platform

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