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Definitions

  • Asset
  • A financial instrument with an associated price that changes over time
  • Aka: symbol, name, ticker

  • E.g., bitcoin, ethereum, Apple stock (US equity), orange futures

  • FM (Financial Instrument)

  • Financial instruments are monetary contracts between parties

  • GH (GitHub)

  • HLD (High Level Design)

  • Is a general system design and includes the description of the System architecture and design

  • IM (Instrument Master)

  • A software component that associates symbolic names to assets and their prices

  • Integrator

  • Someone on the team that is in charge of merging code to the main line of development

  • Aka: master

  • OHLCV bar

  • An open-high-low-close chart (also OHLC) is a type of chart typically used to illustrate movements in the price of a financial instrument over time

  • OMS (Order Management System)

  • A software component in charge of placing and monitoring trading orders to market or broker

  • PR (Pull Request)

  • Request to merge code in GitHub

  • RP (Responsible Party)

  • Someone on the team that helps following our process

  • Aka: tech lead

  • ZH (ZenHub)

  • Our tool for project management