The Quote-board desktop application
The Quote-board desktop is a desktop application that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays all the information available to a user.
Key features
Clean, elegant display of market and analytic data.
- Well designed screen gives users all the key data at a glance while intuitive mouse and keyboard interactions allow for instant drill downs into fine detail.
- Filter and sort screen content based on wide range of criteria.
- Users can create and configure multiple Quote-cast windows each configured with its own column layout, filter, sort and analytic options.
- Customizable rules based highlighting of situations of interest.
- Hot keys allow instant focus on situations of interest.
Enterprise-wide order blotter allows desks to track responses.
- Intuitive order and trade entry forms reduce manual input to a bare minmium.
- Entry forms are context sensitive and pre-populated with structure data and price details. Point, click, adjust and the entry is done.
- Fine grained access control to blotter allows blotter to be shared with entire operation or selected groups of individuals.
- Blotter data can be held internally or published via any gateway that supports two way data flows.
- Full audit trail of who entered or updated what and when.
Comprehensive instrument coverage and sophisticated data modelling.
Quote-cast covers a wider range of financial products. These include...
- Currencies.
- Equities, ADRs and ETFs.
- Equity, commodity and rate indices.
- Listed options and futures.
- Generic options.
- Total return and dividend swaps.
- Variance and volatility swaps.
Sophisticated data model allows...
- Market structure definitions are based on a geared portfolio of instruments and not tied to a limited set of combinations.
- Market structures are independent from instruments. This allows rapid extension of the product set. We can simply add another product definition to the mix.
- Order structures can handle multiple contingent references each based on a different financial product. Need an futures reference and a rate reference ? No problem.
- Order and trade structures are independent from the market structure easing historic search.
Instant messaging and dedicated private chatrooms, user interface optimsed for high message volumes.
Quote-cast leverages the XMPP messaging protocol for client/server session mangement and comunication.