18 Professional services

In addition to IB-Matlab being offered as an off-the-shelf software program, advanced Matlab consulting, training, and development are being offered. With close to 30 years of professional Matlab programming experience, including extensive finance/trading-related development in the past decade, we offer top-of-class Matlab consulting, with a particular emphasis on the financial sector.

In particular, we have experience integrating quality production-grade Matlab programs with online brokers (e.g. IB (Interactive Brokers), CQG, and CFH FIX); data-feed providers (e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters, Trading Physics, and DTN IQFeed (for which a separate commercial Matlab connector is available: IQML193); websites (e.g. Finviz and Nasdaq); databases (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and SQLite), as well as Excel and raw-format data files. Programs were developed on multiple Matlab releases and all Matlab-supported platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux.

We have completed countless life-cycles of software requirements definition, design, development, documentation, integration, testing, deployment, handover, maintenance and support.

Much of my work derives from the financial sector: we developed custom software for a commodities fund in a Geneva bank; a backtesting and analysis program for a large bank in Chicago; a currencies trading program for a hedge-fund in Malta; data-analysis products for financial services firms in New-York; a portfolio risk/exposure analysis program for an Israeli investment advisor; a charting GUI for a San-Francisco hedge fund; and semi- and fully-automated algo-trading programs for multiple clients around the globe.

Development is typically done remotely; onsite consulting/development is also possible upon request, or a combination of remote work and onsite visits.

You can see a small sample of programs that we have developed below. Additional samples can be seen on my consulting webpage.194

Anything developed under private consulting will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to others. You will retain full IP ownership of anything developed for you.

Most of my revenue comes from repeat clients. we will be happy to provide references of satisfied clients in US or Europe. With such an impressive track record, you probably know some of them.

Contact us by email (info@UndocumentedMatlab.com) if you wish to discuss your needs or to receive a proposal.

18.1 Sample program screenshots

18.2 About the author (Yair Altman)

With 30 years of professional software programming experience, Yair Altman offers top-notch Matlab consulting and training services.

Yair has worked extensively with Matlab and many other programming languages (Java, C#, C, C++ and others). He has developed many programs with SQL and a variety of databases, operating systems and hardware platforms.

Matlab community developers, and even MathWorks themselves, consider Yair a top Matlab expert, as any simple online search will show. His UndocumentedMatlab.com website is by far the largest and most active independent Matlab site. Yair is also well-known from numerous submissions on the Matlab forums and File Exchange; a MathWorks study determined195 that Yair is the third most influential submitter in the entire Matlab community. He regularly advises MathWorks, and is a member of both its Community Advisory Board (CAB) and MATLAB Advisory Board (MAB).

Yair published two extensive and highly-acclaimed Matlab textbooks: MATLAB-Java programming196 (2011) and Accelerating MATLAB Performance197 (2014). Both books are considered the top references in their field.

Yair provides professional, cost effective consulting and contract development.198 He can do stuff that few other Matlab programmers know is even possible, delivering great value: top quality code at reasonable cost.

Yair also offers custom Matlab training courses,199 in a variety of topics and levels.

By combining a proven track-record of quality software programming, decades of professional experience, and Matlab knowledge that few others possess, Yair provides clients with superior value and cost-effectiveness.