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Welcome to the Home of the Open Java Trading System

The Open Java Trading System (OJTS) is meant to be a common infrastructure to develop stock trading systems. It consists of four parts:

  • the gathering of raw data over the internet
  • the recognition of trading signals
  • a visualisation module and
  • modules to connect to the programmatic interfaces of trading platforms like banks.
The project's aim is to provide a self contained pure Java (platform independent) common infrastructure for developers of trading systems. Some of the aspects which should be addressed are to provide a common SQL92 compliant database schema for storing financial data, common Java interfaces for how to interchange data between different modules, visualisation of raw financial data and trading signals and several other common aspects needed to create a final trading system.

Because of my job and family I do not find the time to improve OJTS any longer. I am continuing to update the links section below that will guide you to more active java open source projects in that area, though.

In fact as a consequence of my interest in the dynamics of stock markets I began a journey into the deeper details of national economics in order to understand currency exchange rates. This topic finally lead me to a deeper study of money in itself as the metric unit that we use in economics to measure "value", "success" or "utility". This topic turned out to be extremely interesting but at the same time it was very hard to find any information about how our monetary system works. Go around and ask people where money comes from, who creates it and what determines its value. You will notice that even the people who have a masters degree or Phd. in economics will not know these details. Oh, yes, they will answer in some cryptic technical terms, but they will not be able to draw a simple diagram that outlines the process.

H. G. Wells is reported to have said:
"To write of currency is generally recognised as an objectionable, indeed almost an indecent, practice. Editors will implore the writer almost tearfully not to write about money, not because it is an uninteresting subject, but because it has always been a profoundly disturbing one."
I suggest to any person living in a democratic society to read about this topic. It affects our lives every day to an extent that cannot be exagerated! In my opinion every citizen of a democratic country on that world should know where our money is coming from. Most likely you came to this web-site in order to look for tools that help you in increasing your monetary wealth. To understand the metric unit "money" (no matter if Dollar or Euro) will be an important ingredient in your toolkit for making money.

If you have little time and only can afford to read one single book about that subject then I suggest you read Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt by Frederick Soddy. I was able to buy a used copy via Amazon for $23.48, but there exists also an online version. You will need the DjVu plugin to read it. This book was published originally in 1929, but still describes the actual facts very well. Even if I do not agree with all conclusions of Frederick Soddy his work is enjoyably thought provoking and will lead you to ask the right questions.

If you have more time then I suggest you to read the following books aswell, in the given order:

N e w s
Releases, Bugfixes and updated Documentation

2007-10-06 Announced the suspension of active development and added references to information about our monetary systems (Dollar/Euro).
2006-02-01 Added a links section to other interesting java trading system projects.
I am investigating on how to make OJTS more compatible to other java trading system efforts.
2005-09-16 Investment and Trading System Documentation Project to be found at ITSdoc.org.
There is a new wiki available at ITSdoc.org focusing on the distribution of knowledge in the domain of investment and trading systems. The idea behind ITSdoc.org is to have a collaboration platform similar to wikipedia helping the community to share knowledge.
2005-06-02 OpenJavaTradingSystem v0.13 released.
Yesterday I released the Version 0.13 of the OpenJavaTradingSystem library. Among the new features are:
  • Data retrieval for shares, funds and currencies from OnVista.
  • Implementation of currency handling and conversions.
  • Portfolios are implemented and you can work with Portfolios the same way as with single security paper items.
  • Added a general framework for applying algorithms to stock market time series.
  • Switched from the SISC/Scheme interactive shell to ABCL/CommonLisp plus its editor called "J".
  • Added a general data caching mechanism to cache data that was already retrieved over the web in the file system.
  • Plus many more minor improvements
If you are interested in this new version you should start at the quickstart/screenshot section. The manual is not yet updated but it can give you nevertheless some valuable background information if you want to use the library in your project. The documentation should be updated soon.
2005-01-29 Currently there is not much development done, because I am upgrading my knowledge about bayesian networks. See for example the list of books on my web-site. Two very interesting projects to that respect are WEKA and BNJ. Soon I will continue development and I will start to integrate the first "intelligence" into the system.
2004-12-04 Today I put the first release in the files section of the sourceforge download area. Besides that I updated the manual to document the interactive usage of the project via the SISC Scheme layer. For the impatient here is a quickstart/screenshot section to get you going.

D o c u m e n t a t i o n
Documents describing the internals of the project.

T e c h n o l o g y
Third Party Building Blocks used in this project

  • HSQL Database Engine (license: hsqldb_lic.txt)
    The HSQLDB is the database engine shipped with the project so that you can immediately start using the OJTS without installing a third party database. But if you plan to use another SQL92 compliant database then this is a configuration option.
  • Castor (license: The Exolab License)
    Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java[tm]. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and more.
  • Castor Doclet (license: GNU LGPL v2.1)
    Java doclet to generate both mapping and DDL files for Castor JDO and Castor XML.
  • TestMaker (license: TestMaker Open-Source License)
    From the TestMaker project only the implementation of the protocols like HTTP or HTTPS are used for gathering data from the web.
  • jCookie (license: GNU LGPL v2.1)
    The jCookie library is necessary for the TestMaker libraries to work.
  • htmlparser (license: GNU LGPL v2.1)
    The htmlparser library is used to extract the data from web resources.
  • ABCL/CommonLisp (license: GNU GPL v2)
    ABCL (Armed Bear Common Lisp) is used to implement the algorithmic heart of the project in the ANSI Common Lisp programming language.
  • JFreeChart (license: GNU LGPL v2.1)
    JFreeChart is used for the visualisation of financial data as charts.
  • JSci (license: GNU LGPL v2.1)
    JSci - A science API for Java.
  • Joda Time (license: Home grown OpenSource License)
    Joda Time replaces the original JDK Date and Time classes.

L i n k s
Links to other projects

  • The JavaTraders Google group may be the best entry for you to find out about other Java based trading systems and tools.

L i c e n s e
Terms of use

The code of the project is licensed under the terms of the LGPL and all documentation that you find in this project are licensed under the terms of the FDL.


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