Programmability

The true power of FlexStrategy server lies within its programming interface, including:

• Intuitive application program interface (API) and ease of use
• Event/message normalization which globally abstracts the messaging and protocol differences across brokers, exchanges and market data providers
• Complete state / position management
  •  Full awareness of client / street order relationships and state
  •  Account positions
  •  P&L
  •  Containers and Iterators for active orders, executions, and more
• Strategies that are rigorously profiled and optimized for performance with unmatched reaction times and throughput statistics
• Advanced strategy implementations with all client business models
  •  Simple time-based logic to minimize market impact
  •  Complex event-based (CEP) market making
  •  Spread trading
  •  Advanced SOR strategies for various asset classes
• Interoperability
  •  Easy to use APIs to integrate with third-party or existing software
• Real-time reload of algorithms for rapid development and testing

Stratlets

FlexStrategy Server is also equipped with FlexTrade-developed Stratlets, which are commonly used segments of strategy functionality that can be separated and reused across other strategies.  Designed to reduce development time, traders can use Stratlets to foster robust and consistent behavior across their trading strategies.

API Access

FlexTrade’s APIs are designed with the belief that true value comes from seamless integration – regardless of whether the link is internal (between FlexTrade processes) or external (with third-party processes). The FlexStrategy Server API can interact with any process in the system, whether it is the FIX engine, order match server, market data server, compliance engine and more.