eriksuta / nxt-ws-algo

Capco Algo Trading Workshop

Welcome to the Capco Algorithmic Trading WorkShop. Before we start, please follow the steps below in order to prepare for the workshop.

Git installation

Before we start, we need to install git client on a machine in order to checkout the source code of the application. Please, download the client from the following link: Git download page

After installation, you can checkout the repository running the following command from command line in a directory you wish to download the sources to:

git clone https://github.com/eriksuta/nxt-ws-algo

Maven install

Our application uses maven as a build tool. In order to build the application from downloaded sources. To install maven on your machine, download it from following link: Maven download page

After download, install maven according to information in following link: Maven install Make sure you can run the mvn -v in command line and see the version of installed maven.

Building the application

Demo trading application is build using Spring Boot. There are multiple ways to run the application, the first one is using an IDE (We prefer to work with IntelliJ IDEA, but feel free to use your favourite IDE):

• Import and run application from IntelliJ IDEA: IntelliJ Import

Other option is to build and run it from command line. Navigate to application root directory and run the following command:

• Build and run: mvn spring-boot:run

After this step, you should be able to navigate to http://localhost:8080/ in your favourite browser and see the following index page:

We will start our workshop from this step. Looking forward to seeing you all.