Marketcetera Reading List

There are a few books that we found invaluable while building parts of the Marketcetera Platform and we wanted to share them with you

• Rails and Web Development
  • Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
    Best book to come up to speed on the last 10 years of HTML progress
  • Agile Web Development with Rails
    How-to on getting started with Rails
  • Programming Ruby
    Ruby programming language guide
• Eclipse Development
  • Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java Applications
    Excellent overview of the application framework that powers both the Eclipse IDE and Marketcetera Photon.
  • Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins
    Best practices for building plug-ins for the Eclipse platform.
• General Programming
  • Java Extreme Programming Cookbook
    Cookbook with solid examples for setting up unit testing
  • Professional C++
    Our friend and SpotDJ founder Scott Kleper co-wrote it, and never shies away from answering our arcane C++ questions
• Finance
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
    This is why we write software instead of trading
  • Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques
    What our developers read to understand what it is they are making. Good thing we make them read the above book first...
  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition
    Rumor has it this is a good place to start for non-finance jocks
  • Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
    A short and fascinating book about the rise and fall of traders.