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Securities Trade Life Cycle
Posted on11. Apr, 2009 by khader.
It is important to know the big picture of securities trade life cycle. I have been conducting this little workshop on this topic. This workshop covers the following topics. You can also download the presentation Securities Trade Processing(PPT/PDF).
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Brokerage Firm/Securities Trading Organization
Trade Life Cycle
Order Origination / Front Office
Order Validation / Middle Office
Settlement / Back Office
Custodians, Commercial Banks
References
-Khader
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Tooltip for GridView Column Headers (ASP.Net)
Posted on30. Mar, 2009 by khader.
I just wanted to add auto tooltips for my GridView headers. There are couple of ways but I don’t want to use javascript and wanted to use simple ‘title’ attribute. It took couple of hours to get the working code supporting sortable columns. I thought it will be very useful for others. Here’s the code and logic [...]
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Grid Computing Vs Cloud Computing
Posted on19. Mar, 2009 by khader.
Recently we started hearing a lot about these terms. They are bit confusing and not many are clear about the distinction. I tried to google it to see if there is any simple and clear explanation somewhere. But I wasn’t that lucky. So let me explain this in a simplest possible way.
Grid Computing term is [...]
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Ticker Symbol of Stocks, Options and Futures – The story behind them.
Posted on05. Mar, 2009 by khader.
The Ticker Symbol is a common identifier used in financial marktes to identify all trading instruments. The ticker symbols are fromed using certain methods. Knowing those methods would make our job much easier especially if you are dealing with multiple classes instruments. The idea behind this article is to bring all of them together and discuss.
Supporting presentation from [...]
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Securities Identification Codes: SYMBOL, CUSIP, ISIN, SEDOL, RIC Code
Posted on22. Feb, 2009 by khader.
I have been thinking of gettting some details of all the security codes together from a while. In this article I have explained some fundamental details of each identifier. These are heavily used in daily life of the technical and nontechnical staff of the financial firms.
List different security Identifier used in financial marktes are:
SYMBOL
CUSIP
ISIN
SEDOL
RIC Code
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My FIX Protocol Videos on YouTube, finally!
Posted on16. Feb, 2009 by khader.
Finally, I could post my FIX Protocol introduction videos on YouTube. The video is in 4 parts each around 7-10 min long. I tried my best to cover the complete introduction. You can download the presentation here (PPT/PDF). I hope any one who is new to the subject can easily get the whole big picture. Please [...]
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Market Data – Ticks – Uptick – Downtick
Posted on08. Feb, 2009 by khader.
I just wanted to clarify few basic terms that are used very often to indicate market movements.
Plustick/Uptick
Security is Trading at higher than the previous sale price
Minustick/Downtick
Security is trading at lower than the previous sale price
Zero plustick
Security is trading at same as last sale price but previous tick was a plustick
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Financial Markets & Products – Introduction
Posted on06. Feb, 2009 by khader.
One day workshop
Covers fundamental elements of Financial markets and products. Topics like:
Overview of Financial markets
Players and Structure of Financial markets
Buy Side Firms
Sell Side Firms
Exchanges
Regulatory Bodies (SEC)
Clearing Firms, Commercial banks
Categories of financial products
Equities
Fixed Income
Options & Futures
Other Derivatives
Regulatory agencies and their role
Securities Exchange Commission
Self regulatory Agencies (NYSE etc)
Download class presentation (ppt/pdf) : insidefinmkts_ksv_full
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Introduction to Hibernate
Posted on04. Feb, 2009 by khader.
Hibernate – 1 day workshop:
Hibernate is the most popular open source ORM in Java world. It is also picking in .Net world (NHibernate). This quick covers what you need to get started.
Download Classroom material – hibernate
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Spring Framework Workshop
Posted on03. Feb, 2009 by khader.
Workshop:
Here’s the material and contents of the Spring Framework half-day workshop.
Download Spring Framework Introduction (PDF)
Contents:
Background
J2EE Vs Spring
Framework Mission
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Various Modules (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring DAO, Spring ORM, Spring Web, Spring Context, Spring AOP)
Application Development Process
Sample Application
