Revisiting the structure of the system

We'll revisit the project structure and make sure all the dependencies are added. The following are the parts of an automated trading system:

  • Feed handlers and market data adapters
  • Trading strategies
  • Order execution and order management
  • Persistence layer (DBs)
  • GUI for monitoring the system

We need two new dependencies. They are as follows:

  • System.Windows.Forms
  • System.Drawing

We need the System.Windows.Forms dependency to create our GUI. It provides support for Windows itself and the controls that are used. The System.Drawing dependency is also needed to provide the basic graphics functionality. The following is a list of the references needed in the project. You can verify your own project against the list to make ...

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