Photon Overview

Photon is Marketcetera's visual order-entry application.

It is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and is exceptionally light-weight and extensible.
Photon is designed to speak with the Marketcetera ORS and can send orders in the following ways:

1. Through a standard Order Ticket view
2. Using the command-line box for faster order entry
3. Through integrated Scripting Engine that allows you to receive market data and send orders

Photon can be setup to receive and display market data quotes, and to display additional security information in the embedded browser window.

Photon also possesses the ability to slice the data a number of different ways, allowing users to sort and filter messages based on security, account name, order type and a variety of other metrics. It features an embedded Ruby scripting environment for rapid trading strategy prototyping and development, see the scripting section for more details.

See the Photon Guide for a complete manual on how to use Photon.