Founder · Engineer · Trader
I'm Mike Papinski. I wrote my own arbitrage software, traded on it for years, and turned it into the stack brokers and trading desks run on.
The stack
Tell me what you do and I will point you at the right one.
Arbitrage teams and prop desks
Run a whole trading operation from one terminal
The multi-account trading and latency-arbitrage platform I built for my own desk and traded on for years. Now licensed to a small number of organisations.
Quants and latency-sensitive traders
Low-latency market data from London
Aggregated multi-venue market data over FIX 4.4, served from Equinix LD4. The fast reference price that latency-sensitive strategies are built on.
Traders who want a better terminal
The AI trading terminal
A modern terminal for web, desktop and mobile with AI built into the workflow. Charts, orders, news and automation in one place.
Brokers and prop firms
The broker back-end, all in one
Trading engine, bridge, FIX gateway, REST API, risk and CRM in a single stack. An alternative to stitching a brokerage together from five vendors.
The story
I started in the depositary department of a global custody bank, automating work that people did by hand. At night I wrote trading software.
My latency-arbitrage system started paying for itself. I left the job, moved to Asia and kept building while I traded.
I opened an office in Kuala Lumpur and ran a trading operation with developers on payroll, pushing the software as far as it would go.
Going institutional did not work. Prime-of-prime access, infrastructure cost and venue access stopped it. I closed the office and let the team go.
I had already built most of what a brokerage needs. So I turned it into products: a bridge, a feed, a terminal and an engine.
I rebuilt the whole stack alone with AI coding agents. Today I am shipping it from Spain and documenting every step in public.
The lab
A review of my old Expert Advisor that traded Forex with a daily breakout strategy: what it did and what I learned.
My story of getting into machine learning and deep learning, what I studied first, and what I would skip today.
Build a live, animated candlestick chart from raw Forex tick data in Python with pandas and matplotlib.
Questions
Trading infrastructure. HFTbridge is a multi-account trading and arbitrage platform, HFTfeed is low-latency market data, VybeTrader is an AI trading terminal and ViiSync is a full broker back-end.
Individual traders start with VybeTrader. Arbitrage teams and prop desks want HFTbridge, usually with HFTfeed as the fast reference price. Brokers and prop firms that need an engine, bridge and CRM should look at ViiSync.
A limited number of organisation licences are open. Send me the word HFTBRIDGE in a direct message on Instagram and I will reply with the details.
No. I sell software. There are no signals, no advice, no managed accounts and no promised results. You trade at your own risk with your own rules.
I document everything on YouTube and post daily on Instagram. Longer technical write-ups live on the blog on this site.
Instagram direct messages are the fastest route. For product support, use the contact options on each product site.
