Implementing Custom Functionality in Air for Trading
The following article demonstrates that Adobe Flex can easily replace an existing stock trading application Java API and by using the features of Air, add easily new functionality to it. It all started when I read the book "High Probability Trading Strategies" from Robert C. Miner where he describes how to predict the behaviour of stock price. It is a very good book and I recommend it to everyone who is interested in trading. The main idea of the book is that the stock prices almost always move in a certain range and the range is predictable by the price movements in the past. Since the concept was interesting and my current trading platform didnt offer all the features described in the book, I decided to try how difficult it would be to develop an extension to my current trading platform.
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Using Adobe Flex 3 for Analyzing Stocks
Flex is very suitable for applications that require handling of tabular data as it provides by default functionality, which would be very difficult to achieve in HTML. We have been hearing business requirements about all kind of extreme sorting and dragging-dropping for years but thanks to Flex we can now start to take these requirements seriously. The following article is an example how Flex could be used as a business intelligence tool for analyzing stocks. Read more »
