Programme Birger

In our blog on Habré, we write a lot about finance technology. Stock exchanges now use the most advanced software and hardware, both to build the trading infrastructure itself and to establish online tracing systems.

Mathematics, physics and programmers are here today. People are capable of creating trade algorithms and making quality sophth. Many programmers, in turn, would like to try their forces in the financial sector, which could offer an attractive combination of interesting tasks and high wages.

Today, we'll talk about what skills we need to get to work at HFT, investment bank, hedge fund or brokering. Materials from experience.com and quantstart.com were used in the preparation of the current.

Languages

One of the most popular financial programming languages for many years is C. It needs to be known not only to support an outdated code, but also to work with API in electronic commerce systems and data exchange with providers.

Wall Street is called C++, because the most important thing for learning systems is speed. Whatever a well-designed and well-cooled trade programme is, if at some point it spends millions of extras on " garbage collection " , it could cause serious losses. The same applies to the exchange infrastructure - all possible data transfer locks and “conjectors” to different systems.

As a result, C+++ programmers are highly demanded in financial sector companies, including the exchanges themselves. And this situation will continue for years to come, someone needs to maintain the current infrastructure.

C++ and clean C are very good for these tasks. It is also true that fast robots are being created and almost on the assembler - it is worth mentioning the direct reading-recording mechanisms in memory of the online map, excluding the standard mechanisms of work Drivers, as well as work with the " superstructured programmeable iron " like FPGA.
According to the resource developer QuantStart and the professional trader Michael Halls Moore, today a senior programmer with 5-7 years of experience on C++ can earn £500-700 a day in London. In Russian companies, C++ specialists are also very required. In addition, such developers often attract professional traders who can create a successful trade strategy, but need help from who could programme it.

C# and Java have also been used for quite some time by various financial institutions. Mostly large banks for their training infrastructure. These languages are used for the development of front-line interfaces and data processing.