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Convertibles Trading System |
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Purpose |
A system for trading convertible bonds and stocks in various combinations |
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Description |
This application was developed to replace a legacy system
that was used by the Convertibles Desk of a major trading company. It incorporated
key features of the old system, and enhanced it by adding customizable user interface
and improved analytical modeling capabilities.
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Features |
Following are some of the key features of this application:
- Displayed live trading data from Bloomberg® on various forms
- Used Windows Forms technology to create a rich client interface
- Used User Controls to allow repeated use of the various components
- Flexible user interface that allowed each user to display only the components they needed for their function
- Users could create, store and retrieve any number of customizable configurations
- Users could move, dock, hide or display any panel
- Automatic synchronization of data on all open panels based on the selected bond
- Ability to simultaneously handle multiple orders, trades and allocations
- Integrated Infragistics UltraWinGrid to give users the ability to sort, filter, move or hide columns in any combination
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Components |
Several people were involved in the development of this
application. Following is the list of components that were designed and developed
by Wasim Akhtar:
- Main Menu Structure
- User Interface Architecture
- Bond Description Panel
- Company Fundamentals Panel
- Live Feed and Stock Information
- Market Price Panel
- Order Ticket
- Orders List
- Trade Allocation Panel
- Trade Execution Ticket
- Trades List
- Yield Premium Scenarios Panel
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Details |
To view screenshots from this application, click on the following links:
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System Requirements |
Following are the minimum system requirements
for this application:
- C# with Visual Studio 2005
- Bloomberg API®
- Infragistics NetAdvantage® for .NET 2007 Vol. 3 CLR 2.0
- Infragistics NetAdvantage® for WPF 2007 Volume 1
- MS-Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
- MS-Windows® .NET Framework 3.0
- Oracle 10g Database®
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