Market data · Execution · Research tooling

We build the layer between the venue and your strategy.

Venue adapters, normalisation, capture and replay, FIX connectivity and the research harness — built inside systematic trading firms. Your engineers work on alpha instead of parsing another exchange's binary quirks.

OneSchema, every venue
nsTimestamp resolution
SameCode path, research and prod
YoursSource, tests and docs

What we build

The unglamorous half of a trading system.

None of this is where your edge lives — which is exactly why it shouldn't be consuming your quant engineers. It still has to be correct to the nanosecond, and it still decides whether you trade on Monday.

01

Market data pipelines

Venue adapters, normalisation to a single schema, capture with hardware timestamps where the feed supports it, and a storage layout a five-year query can survive. We read the ITCH spec so your researchers never have to.

ITCHOUCHSBEMBO / MBP-10Parquet

02

Execution & FIX connectivity

FIX 4.2 through 5.0 SP2, session management that survives a venue restart, order routing, drop copy, and the certification runs with each venue. Tedious, exacting, and the thing that breaks at 09:30 if it's done casually.

FIX 4.4Session mgmtDrop copyVenue certification

03

Research tooling & replay

A backtest harness that reads the same bytes as production, deterministic replay at wall-clock or accelerated speed, and point-in-time symbology so a result from last year still reproduces this year.

Deterministic replayPoint-in-timeSymbologyBacktest harness

04

Run it with you

Session monitoring across your trading calendar, gap detection, venue change management and an on-call rota — or a documented handover to your own team once it's stable.

24×5Gap detectionChange mgmtRunbooks

Scope

A short list of things we will not do.

We write software. We don't run your cloud account, rack your hardware, or have opinions about your alpha. Being narrow is the point — it's why the work is fast and why we can be held to a spec.

Not us

  • Cloud platform and networking
  • Colocation, cages and hardware
  • FPGA feed handlers
  • Your strategy and signal research
  • Regulatory sign-off

Us

  • Venue adapters and normalisation
  • Capture, storage and replay
  • FIX and execution connectivity
  • Research tooling and backtest harness
  • Production support in trading hours

Engagement

Scoped, delivered in your repository, handed over.

Scope

A short paid discovery: which venues, which schemas, what your researchers actually need day to day. You get a written specification and an estimate, and you keep both regardless.

Build

Delivered in your repository with tests, documentation and a conformance run against each venue. Typically six to twelve weeks, depending mostly on how many venues you need.

Run

Optional support across your trading calendar, or a handover with runbooks. Everything we write is yours — source, tests and documentation, with no runtime dependency on us.

Get in touch

Tell us which venues.

A short note about the venues, schemas and volumes you need, and what your team is spending time on today. You will get an engineer on the first call.

contact@pinguinvestments.com