articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . september 2015 marketcetera type trading platform industry financial services trading hedge funds founded 2006 headquarters san francisco california united states key people graham miller ceo toli kuznets cto roy agostino cmo yoram talmor vp of engineering brian roberti vp of sales products marketcetera trading platform & support website www.marketcetera.com marketcetera is a financial software company that has developed the marketcetera open source trading platform linking financial exchanges to users through broker services allowing the development of automated trading systems essentially acting as a meta broker itself . the marketcetera platform uses the activ financial data steam services for a real time low latency equity data feed . the open platform uses the open source library quickfix to implement the standardized fix communication protocol . marketcetera has offices in san francisco and new york . contents 1 history 2 current and future usage 3 competitors 4 bibliography 5 references 6 external links history edit marketcetera was founded in 2006 in san francisco by stanford computer scientists ceo graham miller and cto toli kuznets . early in 2008 the firm managed to raise 4m through investors shasta ventures and jack selby managing director of clarium capital . 1 after a period of testing version 1.0 of the software was released on 14 january 2009 for windows . on 17 february with the release of v1 .1 marketcetera became additionally compatible with linux increasing its potential market reach . in march 2009 marketcetera appointed w. brennan carley to its board of directors . carley was the founder of bt radianz and has held c level positions at such financial institutions as reuters and instinet 2 as well as serving on the board of firms such as yipes . 3 as of june 2009 marketcetera are in partnership with nyse technologies the commercial technology division of nyse euronext to provide a software as a service saas trading platform on nyse technologies sfti secure financial transaction infrastructure network . 4 current and future usage edit the aim of marketcetera is to be used by traders hedge funds and financial services firms . marketcetera currently has over 10 000 software downloads 5 and some hedge funds have commented encouragingly on the prospects of open source platforms in this area . 6 given that marketecetra is open source software the company generate revenue primarily through data and support services and currently has over 20 active support contracts . 5 marketcetera may in future be able to get regulatory approval as a certified broker and as a result earn extra commission on its trades . 7 future versions of the software are likely to include tools for trading currencies and commodities . 8 competitors edit there are proprietary competitors such as flextrade portware embium and iqbroker in addition to ultra low latency trading systems such as bloomberg and reuters . bibliography edit marketcetera goes gold . zdnet . january 14 2009 . retrieved 2009 03 31 . references edit marketcetera gets 4m to bring open source to automated trading . venturebeat . retrieved 2012 11 02 . marketcetera appoints financial technology pioneer to board of directors . thomson reuters . march 23 2009 . retrieved 2009 04 09 . yipes names technology finance veteran to cfo position adds industry pioneer to board of directors pdf . relianceglobalcom.com . retrieved 2012 11 01 . nyse technologies and marketcetera launch new era software as a service trading platform on sfti network . nyse euronext . june 25 2009 . retrieved 2009 12 14 . a b welcome to the marketcetera community marketcetera auto trading platform confluence . marketcetera.org . retrieved 2012 11 02 . my bet is that we will see a slow and steady uptake of open source platforms by trading firms as automation and computer science thinking finds a stronger place on wall street astro teller ceo of cerebellum capital open source technology may gain as wall street cuts back . securities industry news . january 19 2009 . retrieved 2009 04 15 . asay matt 2007 08 24 . marketcetera one of the coolest open source companies i ve seen in a long time the open road cnet news . news.cnet.com . retrieved 2012 11 02 . vance ashlee january 14 2009 . bringing open source software to trading desks . new york times . retrieved 2009 03 31 . external links edit official website securitiesindustry.com advancedtrading.com highbeam.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title marketcetera & oldid 680780303 categories financial marketscross platform free softwarehidden categories orphaned articles from september 2015all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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