The company, which has raised an unspecified seed financing from Spark Capital and market maker GETCO, provides browser-based tools for anyone with basic programming knowledge to create algorithms and simulate actual trading with them.

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What makes this approach relevant is its ability to wrap multiple knowledge bases in a very clever piece of heuristics-based programming.

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