Algorithmic Trading System Engineering
Trading infrastructure engineered like safety-critical software: a data pipeline you can trust, a strategy engine you can reason about, an execution path with risk gates in front of it, and a kill switch that works when everything else does not.
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What's covered
- Research and production architecture, and the boundary between them
- Market-data pipeline: ingestion, normalisation, gap detection and storage
- Strategy engine with deterministic, replayable signal generation
- Execution architecture and order management
- Pre-trade risk gates: exposure, position, notional and rate limits
- Portfolio accounting and position reconciliation against the broker
- Simulation, paper trading and staged rollout to live capital
- Monitoring, alerting and kill-switch design
What you receive
- Trading system source with architecture documentation
- Data pipeline with quality checks and gap handling
- Risk-gate configuration and the rationale for each limit
- Simulation and paper-trading environment
- Monitoring, alerting and runbooks for live operation
- Handover documentation and operational walkthrough
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Written scope firstAdvisory work runs to a written scope agreed before it starts, so what you receive is what was agreed.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- We do not provide trading strategies, signals or investment advice
- No claim, implication or projection of profitability — we build the system, you own the decisions
- Past or simulated performance is never a prediction of future results
- Broker, exchange and market-data outages are outside our control
- Regulatory licensing for your trading activity remains your responsibility
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Will this system make money?
- We have no idea, and neither does anyone who tells you otherwise. We build the infrastructure — data, execution, risk, monitoring — to a standard where the system does what you told it to, reliably, and stops when it should. The edge is yours to bring and yours to own.
- Can you build from our existing strategy?
- Yes, and that is the usual shape. You bring the logic, often as a notebook or a spreadsheet; we turn it into something deterministic, testable and safe to run with real money, and we tell you honestly where the research version was relying on information it would not have had live.
- Why does the risk layer come before the strategy layer?
- Because a strategy failure loses a trade and an infrastructure failure loses an account. A stale price feed, a duplicated order or a restart that forgets its positions can do more damage in a minute than a bad signal does in a month.
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