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  • 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