How to Make Confident Build-vs-Buy Calls for Core Software Capabilities

When deciding whether to build or buy near core advantage we typically look at three things: 1) Ability to Optimize Performance 2) Long term cost 3) Ability to Iterate off of trader feedback.

For trading infrastructure we build, especially when a feature can directly affect execution speed or the robustness of the system. The closer such functionality is to the low-latency path, the more sense it makes to develop it in-house rather than to purchase a prefabricated solution off the shelf that, in all likelihood, will not include the necessary microsecond precision for the requirements of our customers.

of the key decisions I made to enhance the TradingFXVPS platform was to build our own MTOne4/MT5 server monitoring system rather than purchase a pre-written 3rd party solution. Most traders profits, such as increased network jitter of 2-3ms, increased CPU context switching, commercial monitoring tools for MetaTrader are unable to detect the small but significant performance drops that can affect a etc. The system we have built to monitor our MetaTrader servers can pick up on these kinds of

Our home grown system was written in just 4 months and has prevented numerous trading problems to date. It also provides a key selling point for our TradingFXVPS brand. When every millisecond counts, it is of the utmost importance to have the best tools for performance monitoring and as such we build our core trading infrastructure.