[news.eclipse.technology.ofmp] Re: OFMP demos

["Frederic Conrotte" <frederic.conrotte@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What I found funny is, that the (EUR) column always remains 0.
> Is that a bug or a feature?
It's because of missing quotes in the system at the time I captured the 
demo, but it works trust me ;)

> While not designed for each and every variation and correction of a 
> currency deal, there's another nice example I am going to release on TSS 
> Symposium Europe in Prague next month.
> It deals with stock trading and fetches quotes online via services like 
> Yahoo or other providers. Same for Currency Exchange rates.
>
> A (EUR) or (USD) column also shows all trades in the base currency used by 
> the Web Service (normally US$, at least for Yahoo based on NYSE) but one 
> can also define other base currencies for different markets.
> The currency of the user is determined by his home country/market.
Good stuff. Webservice to fetch dynamics data like quotes, rates, curves etc 
is indeed a requirement for OFMP too, but in financial markets departement 
they more often use Reuters or Bloomberg platforms as source for these data.

Frederic