Founder

Tim Zierer

I am an engineer by training who builds software for traders. Engineering is the craft, trading is where I apply it.

I hold a Master of Engineering in Mechatronics and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and I have been writing software professionally since 2012: embedded systems, cryptographic security products, and full-stack platforms. For the past decade I have applied that same discipline to the markets, and to FEA Trading since 2017.

FEA Trading is my work, personally. I am the engineer behind every tool you would be using, and the person you reach when you have a question about it.

Not everyone wants to hand the whole job to an algorithm, so I build across the range: fully automated systems for those who do, a no-code builder for traders who would rather create their own, chart analysis and risk management tools for anyone trading by hand, and the tick data to test any of it honestly.

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The experience behind the software

2012

Writing production software since

2017

Building software for traders since

5

Products built, documented, and maintained

10

Coding languages

Principles

What you can hold me to

The automated trading market runs on claims nobody ever has to answer for. These are the three commitments my work is built on, and the ones you should judge me by.

Everything is documented and testable

I show how the software works rather than asking you to take it on faith: real tick data, every parameter documented, and backtests you can run again yourself. A figure has to be substantiated before it goes on this website.

Honest about risk

Trading carries real risk of loss, and no algorithm removes it. I would rather explain plainly what a system can and cannot do than win a customer who expected something else. Advice you can act on is worth more than a sales pitch.

One person accountable, for the long run

I design the architecture, write the code, and write the manuals, so answers come from the engineer who built the thing. The framework has been developed continuously since 2017 and is written to keep being extended for years to come.

The story

Where the standard comes from

I did not come to trading from finance. I came to it from embedded engineering in Germany: hardware abstraction layers for ARM Cortex microcontrollers, industrial user interfaces, and cryptographic products used by government and defence customers. In that work you do not get to be approximately right. Software either holds under conditions you cannot fully predict, or it fails somewhere nobody can reach it.

When I started looking seriously at automated trading, the domain felt familiar: long-running systems, real money, and failure modes that stay quiet until they become expensive. The standard did not. Around 86% of market activity is algorithmic, yet the tools that make that possible were priced for institutions. What was left for everyone else was sold on screenshots and promises, in boxes nobody was allowed to open.

So in 2017 I started building what I would have wanted to buy, and I held it to the standard I was trained in. The engineering behind it is German: measure before you claim, document everything, and ship only what you can explain. That is the whole method, and it is why the software looks the way it does.

Partnerships

Local partners, one standard

I work with a small number of local partners who represent FEA Trading in their own region. They know their market and their language. I supply the products, the documentation, and the standard behind them.

Become a local partner

Represent FEA Trading in your region

Local partners act as distributors: you offer the full product range to your own customers and keep 50% of the revenue on everything you sell. No tiers, no thresholds. You sell products that already come with documentation and support in eleven languages, so there is nothing for you to build, and you get access to an exclusive content manager that keeps your social media presence consistent with the brand instead of something you have to invent every week. In return I ask for a high standard of advice: real experience in trading or software development, and a preference for explaining honestly what a product cannot do over closing a sale.

Get in touch

Have a question? Ask me.

Whether you want to know how something works, whether it suits the way you trade, or what it cannot do, write to me and you will get a straight answer from the person who built it. And if you are interested in becoming a local partner for your region, this is where to start.

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