IronPython and Trading Systems
I’ve long believed that scripting languages are an integral part of any legitimate Quant platform or strategy development framework. First I started playing with Matlab, using M as script and Java as a host to my QuantPipes trading platform. Later, I messed around with GroovyScript. But, now that I am entirely committed to the .NET platform, I’m playing with dynamic languages such as IronPython.
At first blush, it has everything I was looking for. It took only a couple hours to come up to speed and get a scriptable widget dropped into my latest trading framework that enables me real-time control of the underlying libraries. Great job Microsoft! They are doing some powerful things with the framework.
