Infrastructure, not signals
We do not sell trading strategies, signals, or return promises. ttTrader is the machine that runs your strategies — a production-grade C++23 framework for market data, execution, risk, recording, and high-fidelity playback across 16 exchanges and brokers. You bring the alpha; we provide the infrastructure and the engineering partnership around it.
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Engagement Models
4–6 wks
Typical Pilot Duration
100%
Source Code Available
Services

What We Offer

Four concrete service lines, all built on ttTrader in production use. Every engagement is scoped individually — you receive a fixed-scope quote before any work starts.

Algo Development

Custom trading algorithms implemented for you on ttTrader: strategy design and specification, implementation as a shared-library plugin, backtesting against recorded tick data in playback, validation in simulation with realistic execution, and support through go-live. From single-strategy builds to multi-leg, multi-exchange setups.

Algo Analytics & Review

A structured second pair of eyes on your existing algorithms: strategy logic review, risk analysis, execution quality and latency assessment, fill analysis against the recorded tape, and code review against HFT conventions. You get a written findings report with concrete, prioritized improvements — not a sales pitch.

Connectors & Integration

Your infrastructure, ttTrader's pipeline: custom exchange connectors against the documented protocol interface, additional order types, integrations with your existing tools — risk systems, reporting, data stores, or the dashboard frontend via the WebSocket protocol. Delivered as plugins, so the core stays untouched.

Training & Onboarding

Get your team productive on ttTrader fast: guided onboarding from installation to a first simulation run, framework architecture walkthroughs, algo plugin development workshops, and configuration and operations training. Sessions are hands-on and tailored to your stack.

Fixed-Scope Quotes — No Hourly Billing Games
Describe what you need, receive a fixed-scope quote with deliverables and timeline. Every engagement is NDA-first on request — your strategies stay yours.
Engagement Models

Engagement Models

Every engagement is tailored — these models are the contracting vehicles for the services above, not rigid packages.

Model A — Technology Licensing

License the ttTrader framework for internal use at your firm. Includes source code, documentation, and integration support. Add-ons: custom exchange connectors and strategy development.

Ideal for: prop shops building in-house infrastructure.

Model B — Custom Development

We build tailored solutions on top of ttTrader — exchange connectors, custom order types, risk systems, full strategy implementations, and GPU-accelerated algos (CUDA/OpenCL kernels for deep NNs, Monte Carlo, portfolio optimization). Typical timeline: 4–12 weeks. Contracting vehicle for the Algo Development and Connectors & Integration services above.

Ideal for: firms with unique requirements or teams needing end-to-end development capacity.

Model C — Consulting & Training

Strategic advisory and team enablement: architecture review, strategy design, performance optimization, and team workshops. Remote or on-site. Contracting vehicle for the Algo Analytics & Review and Training & Onboarding services above.

Ideal for: teams transitioning to systematic trading.

Model D — Revenue Share / Joint Venture

Partner on strategy deployment: we provide the technology, you provide capital and infrastructure. Terms negotiated per engagement.

Ideal for: long-term strategic partnerships.

Build vs. Buy

The Real Alternative Is Building It Yourself

Python frameworks don't compete here — your quantitative developers already know their limits. The honest comparison is licensing ttTrader versus staffing an internal infrastructure team.

In-House Build

Factor Typical Reality
Team 2–3 senior C++ engineers
Time to production 12–18 months
Connector maintenance Ongoing — exchanges change APIs constantly
Deterministic decimal math Custom effort, high test burden
Backtest/live parity Rarely achieved; two engines diverge
Opportunity cost Quants wait on infrastructure

ttTrader License

Factor With ttTrader
Time to first strategy Weeks, not quarters
Exchanges 16 connectors included, maintained by us
Financial math decimal_t — deterministic, bits-exact
Backtest fidelity 1:1 — same event pipeline as live
Source access Full source code license available
Support Direct line to the engineers who built it

Every firm's numbers differ — we're happy to walk through the comparison against your actual team costs and timeline in a technical deep-dive.

Evaluation Process

From First Call to Pilot

A structured evaluation designed for technical due diligence — you validate the framework against your own strategy concepts before any commitment.

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Technical Deep-Dive
Demo & architecture walkthrough with your engineering team
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Strategy Backtest
Your concept run through the playback engine on real recorded data
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Pilot Engagement
4–6 weeks with defined milestones
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Partnership Agreement
Tailored to your firm's needs

NDA-First

Detailed documentation, benchmarks, and the partner pitch deck are shared under NDA. Your strategy concepts never leave your side of the table.

Maintained Connectors

Exchange APIs change constantly. Connector maintenance is part of the engagement — your team focuses on strategy, not websocket schema drift.

Production-Proven

The framework runs live trading today — Windows and Linux, local or collocated. The monitoring dashboard ships with it.

Direct Line to the Developer

Consulting happens with the person who builds ttTrader daily — no intermediaries, no account managers. Decisions don't get lost in a relay chain.

Your Infrastructure

Everything runs on your servers or colocation, with your keys and your data. Deliverables and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.

About

Your Consultant & Partner

Daniel Droste

Developer and maintainer of the ttTrader framework. Daniel has been building automated trading platforms for over two decades — lock-free and deterministic, in modern C++, trading live on crypto venues every day.

Before ttTrader, Daniel co-founded TeraExchange (US) and served as its Chief Architect — the first swap execution facility to list a bitcoin derivative on a CFTC-regulated exchange (2014). He developed the Tera Bitcoin index (TeraBit), the first bitcoin price index to serve as the reference price for a CFTC-regulated bitcoin derivative — used for TeraExchange's bitcoin swap fixings and licensed to Nadex for its bitcoin binary contracts.

His engineering roots reach deeper than trading: for Microsoft, he developed the WIA drivers that support the high-volume production scanners of Fujitsu, Canon, and Ricoh on the Windows operating system — before moving to finance. Consulting clients work with the author of ttTrader, not a reseller: architecture decisions, microstructure details, and performance trade-offs are explained by the person who made them.

Role Founder, developer & maintainer of ttTrader
Previously Co-Founder & Chief Architect, TeraExchange (US)
Company Droste TradeTec UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG
Based in Witten, Germany — working remotely and on-site
Working languages German and English

What He Built — End-to-End

Not a framework user — the author of every layer. The scope consulting clients draw on:

Layer Authored
Core framework C++23 event bus, lock-free pipeline, plugin host, decimal_t math
Exchange connectivity 16 connectors — WebSocket, signed HTTP, raw TCP (Interactive Brokers TWS)
Indicators Native Indicators V2 runtime with 47 built-in types
Simulation & research Playback engine, .ttpb recording, sim execution model with measured latencies
Frontend WebSocket protocol v3 and the React/TypeScript dashboard
Strategies The production algos trading on the framework today

What That Means for You

Deep framework knowledge
Every module, from event bus to order state machine
Live-market experience
Strategies in production, not just in theory
HFT engineering discipline
Deterministic math, allocation-free hot paths, testable components
Regulated-venue track record
Built the first CFTC-regulated bitcoin derivative venue — TeraExchange
One contact, full accountability
From first scoping call to production support

Talk Directly

Engagements start with a direct conversation — no sales layer, no account managers. You reach the person who will do the work.

Phone
+49 1522 3848 517
Location
Oskar-Knufinke-Weg 5, 58456 Witten, Germany
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