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The VisualHFT Predictive Market Analytics dashboard with every tile configured and updating: a quote ladder, a depth chart, a limit order book time series, a time and sales stream, and a column of metric tiles Open guide →
01 · Getting Started VisualHFT docs

Your first session: from empty dashboard to live data

What to do in the first ten minutes after installing VisualHFT. How the dashboard is built, how to connect a market connector, how to point each tile at a provider and a symbol, and which plugins are included versus bought separately.

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VisualHFT market-latency panel updating across connected data providers Open guide →
02 · Operating VisualHFT VisualHFT docs

Run and operate VisualHFT

Configure a connector, select a venue and symbol, verify feed health, operate studies, and shut the system down cleanly.

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The Infrastructure Monitoring dashboard running live: feed message rates and sparklines moving, network latency percentiles refreshing, the CPU gauge redrawing, and the order-book event and latency counters changing, while Market Operational Ratios holds a dot on both counters because nothing has gone wrong Open guide →
02 · Operating VisualHFT VisualHFT docs

Monitor your trading infrastructure

The Infrastructure Monitoring dashboard and the six shipping plugins behind it: feed health, network path quality, remote server counters, exchange latency, operational errors, and order-book event rates. Setup, what each number measures, and how to alert on it.

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VisualHFT depth chart rendering a high-density order book Open guide →
03 · Advanced Guides VisualHFT docs

Advanced analysis guides

Run controlled GPU, cross-venue, latency, and performance investigations without confusing a display change with a market-data result.

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VisualHFT Core and Pro plugin lifecycle from Marketplace entitlement through verified delivery, configuration, start, and Dashboard reachability Open guide →
04 · Plugins & Integrations VisualHFT docs

Plugins and integrations

Install and diagnose Core and Pro plugins without confusing Marketplace delivery with the public source-build SDK workflow.

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VisualHFT Core and Pro architecture from plugin delivery to connectors, shared data contracts, studies, recording, replay, triggers, and Dashboard surfaces Open guide →
05 · Architecture VisualHFT docs

VisualHFT architecture overview

Trace the Core and Pro application from plugin delivery through connector, shared market-data, study, trigger, recorder, replay, and Dashboard boundaries.

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VisualHFT data flow from market connectors into shared models, studies, and dashboard surfaces Open guide →
05 · Architecture GitHub source

Open-source architecture

Trace the open-source market-data path, plugin lifecycle, study results, triggers, and dependency boundaries.

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VisualHFT replay formats and ingestion paths Open guide →
06 · Data & Storage VisualHFT docs

Data, storage, and replay

Record VisualHFT sessions, verify their stream metadata and finalization, then replay them with controlled routing and timing.

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VisualHFT replaying AAPL at the 22 August 2023 NASDAQ opening auction, showing the order book, depth chart, time and sales, and the achieved-speed readout Open guide →
06 · Data & Storage VisualHFT docs

Use your own historical market data

Feed captured market data into VisualHFT: the four formats the Replay Engine reads, loading a NASDAQ TotalView-ITCH pcap directory, recording your own sessions, writing a converter for any other source, and what the dashboard shows once the tape is playing.

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VisualHFT performance counters updating during market-data processing Open guide →
08 · Troubleshooting VisualHFT docs

Troubleshoot VisualHFT

Use a repeatable evidence-first workflow for startup, connector, data, plugin, rendering, and replay problems.

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