August 2010
Beginner
251 pages
7h 20m
English
Content preview from Principles of Quantitative Development
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QUIZ
- General software design principles mean a little more in the context of a trading platform. What do the following terms signify for us?
- (a) Maintainability and documentation
- (b) Scalability and extensibility
- (c) Security and access control.
- List the main components of a trading platform in its software architecture.
- Why does a trade representation call for serialization and deserialization?
- Compare the following database choices for a trading platform:
- (a) Flat file database
- (b) Relational database
- (c) Object database.
- What is different about the market data representation when compared to the trade data representation?
- What are the common trade transformations that a trading platform has to support? From the perspective of software development, what are their components?
- Why is it better to delegate settlement to an existing vended platform?
- What is STP and how does it figure in credit replicates and settlement?
- How does a grid work? Why is it difficult fully to automate dispatch and aggregation?
- What are audit trails? How can they be implemented in a trading platform?
- Describe a multilayered support model for a trading platform.
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