👋Welcome to Datafye!

Datafye exists to democratize institutional-grade trading — delivering the same caliber of market data, strategy development tools, and execution environments that have historically been the domain of elite financial firms, and making them available to every trader and investor.

By uniting high-speed market data, AI-assisted strategy creation, realistic trading environments, and a global algorithm marketplace, Datafye empowers both developers and investors to participate in a new era of algorithmic trading.

The Datafye Pillars

Datafye’s offerings are built around two powerful, interconnected pillars:

1. Algo Foundry - The innovation hub where algorithm developers design, test, and optimize their trading strategies.

2. Algo Marketplace - The investor-facing storefront where traders can discover, evaluate, and trade with proven algorithms.

These pillars are powered by a set of core components - Data Cloud, Algo Container, Backtesting Engine, and Broker Connector - which are composed differently depending on the user’s role and needs, each within a dedicated Private Cloud environment.

• Data Cloud

  Serves historical and real-time market and alternative data in a low-latency, normalized manner.

• Algo Container

  An SDK for building microservices that host and drive developer algos, providing metrics and signals as composable building blocks for algos.

• Backtesting Engine

  Drives, scores and optimizes algos through high-performance, parallelized, batch-driven backtesting with state-of-the-art optimization tools and techniques.

• Broker Connector

  Integrates with user accounts in brokerages for paper and live trade placement and portfolio management.

Algo Foundry

The Algo Foundry is where strategies take shape. This is where developers can:

• Access normalized, low-latency historical and real-time market and alternative data

• Build strategies using their own container or the Datafye Algo Container

• Harness advanced backtesting with parallelized execution, genetic algorithm-based optimization, and performance scorecarding.

Foundry composition depends on the developer’s approach:

• If a developer uses ones own container for the algos, then the Foundry is comprised of the Data Cloud only.

• If a developer uses the Datafye Algo Container for the algos, then the Foundry is comprised of a Data Cloud, an Algo Container with the developer's algo, and a Backtesting Engine.

Private Cloud Deployments

Each Foundry is spun up as a private cloud environment. Developers can choose to deploy:

• Locally on their own desktop, laptop, or server machine (free)

• In a cloud provider of their choosing (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) - either in their own cloud account (free) or in Datafye's managed account (paid)

This ensures complete resource isolation and performance consistency regardless of where you deploy.

Algo Marketplace

The Algo Marketplace connects developed algos to investors. It offers:

• A curated storefront of vetted, ready-to-run strategies

• Seamless launch of algorithms into trading environments

• Options for both paper trading and live trading through broker integration

Each Marketplace algo runs in a dedicated Trading Environment, ensuring realistic execution and risk-controlled conditions. These environments are composed of a Data Cloud, Algo Containers, and Broker Connectors, and are spun up as private cloud environments.

• A developer can independently spin up a Trading Environment - outside the Marketplace storefront - for developer testing (paper trading only). These can be deployed:

  • Locally on their own desktop, laptop, or server machine (free)

  • In a cloud provider of their choosing (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) - either in their own cloud account (free) or in Datafye's managed account (paid)

  These environments are used for developer testing and support paper trading only, ensuring complete resource isolation and performance consistency.

• Marketplace-provisioned environments are spun up per algo via the storefront. These environments support both paper and live trading

This documentation focuses on the developer journey — from building and optimizing in the Algo Foundry to validating in the Trading Environment, with the option to publish to the Algo Marketplace for investor access.