MicroTrends NinjaTrader

MicroTrends History

The founder Tom Leeson has his roots firmly in commercial IT since 1995 and 2000 onwards a trading career in proprietary trading arcades and later broke free of 50% profit splits to become an independant trader specialising in Futures and Forex

IT core skills are current .Net technologies, c#, MSSQL, windows, web, SOA, WCF and clustered database Microsoft technologies, working on small to enterprise level systems, delivering and working on projects with requirements of 1 user to 100,000 concurrent users requiring clustered database, SOA/WCF , multi threaded, high availability, distributed, n tier solutions.

MicroTrends was formed in 2006 to offer direct and sub contract services non exclusively to retail, blue chip and financial institutions - and enjoyed working in sectors encompassing equities, FX, MM, CP Globex for entities such as CLS, StateStreet and Globallink.

Project work has been very varied and amongst other B2B and B2C projects has included both small and large scale desktop and web applications such as online trading systems for equities, back office - swift enrichment, large data handling projects and large scale institutional projects.

In 2009 MicroTrends became a NinjaTrader partner after a synergistic meeting changing to NinjaTrader as a trade platform choice, product and service line. The goal changed to specialise in market participation, research and strategy development for internal, commercial and retail provision.