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James Ma Weiming
James Ma Weiming
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James Ma Weiming

James Ma Weiming is a software engineer based in Singapore. His studies and research are focused on financial technology, machine learning, data sciences, and computational finance. James started his career in financial services working with treasury fixed income and foreign exchange products, and fund distribution. His interests in derivatives led him to Chicago, where he worked with veteran traders of the Chicago Board of Trade to devise high-frequency, low-latency strategies to game the market. He holds an MS degree in finance from Illinois Tech's Stuart School of Business in the United States and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
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Building an Algorithmic Trading Platform

Algorithmic trading automates the systematic trading process, where orders are executed at the best price possible based on a variety of factors, such as pricing, timing, and volume. Brokerage firms may offer an Application Programming Interface (API) as part of their service offering for customers who wish to deploy their own trading algorithms. An algorithmic trading system must be highly robust to handle any point of failure during the order execution. Network configuration, hardware, memory management, speed, and user experience are a number of factors to be considered when designing a system for executing orders. Designing larger systems inevitably adds more complexity to the framework.

As soon as a position in a market is opened, it is subjected to various types of risk, such as market risk, interest rate risk, and liquidity risk...

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James Ma Weiming

James Ma Weiming is a software engineer based in Singapore. His studies and research are focused on financial technology, machine learning, data sciences, and computational finance. James started his career in financial services working with treasury fixed income and foreign exchange products, and fund distribution. His interests in derivatives led him to Chicago, where he worked with veteran traders of the Chicago Board of Trade to devise high-frequency, low-latency strategies to game the market. He holds an MS degree in finance from Illinois Tech's Stuart School of Business in the United States and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
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