i26g Platform

The Vision

Some independent traders want to operate systematically — to treat trading as a disciplined, repeatable process rather than a series of discretionary decisions. They want rules they can test, execution they can trust, and an operation they can keep improving. The tools available to them do not support that ambition. That discipline is what the i26g Library describes; this platform is what makes it runnable.

Commercial platforms for individual traders are built for convenience, not control. They hide their internals, meter access to data, enforce their own risk rules, and fragment the operation across disconnected products — a charting tool here, an order terminal there, a spreadsheet for tracking risk. Each piece works on its own; none of them compose into a whole the trader can see and reason about. Underneath it all sits lock-in: your strategies, your data, and your workflow live inside someone else’s system, on their terms.

This platform is for the trader who refuses that trade-off. One coherent system — self-hosted and owned outright — that treats the trading operation as a single whole rather than a pile of separate tools: data, strategy, execution, and risk in one place, in view, and open to extension as the trader’s edge develops.

Why This Is Needed

Two options exist today, and both fail the independent systematic trader.

Commercial platforms give you the pieces but never the whole. Execution quality is opaque, data access is metered, and risk controls are the platform’s rather than yours. The automation, where it exists at all, runs inside the broker’s environment — under their rules, on their timeline, with their reliability guarantees. When the platform goes down, your strategy goes down with it. And because each capability lives in a separate product, you are left stitching a coherent operation together by hand, never able to see it as one system.

Building it yourself is the other option, and it is a trap. Market data ingestion, order management, broker connectivity, backtesting, risk controls, live monitoring — each is individually tractable, but together they consume the time that should be going toward strategy. Most capable traders who attempt it either never finish or finish so late the stack is already stale.

The gap is a foundation: a coherent, opinionated starting point that covers the whole operation, keeps the trader in control, and stays open to extension — so the work goes into the edge, not the infrastructure.

How We’re Building It

The platform is built on a lean, composable foundation — file-first persistence, a small set of mature open-source tools, and a deliberate resistance to infrastructure the workload does not yet justify. On top of it, it will compose everything a trading operation needs — from market data and strategy development through execution, orchestration, and risk management — into one coherent system you deploy and own outright, rather than a set of products stitched together after the fact.

None of it is invented here. Every tool the platform builds on is mature, well-understood, and maintained by a community far larger than this project. The platform does not compete with them — it stands on them. What it contributes is the composition: the glue between the parts, and a deployment you own end to end. The work worth doing is knowing which shoulders to stand on and adding precision where the joints between them matter.

The specifics — the components, how each works, and the decisions behind them — are documented as the build progresses. This page describes the shape of the system; the writings cover what goes into it.

What We’re Building

This will produce a self-hosted trading platform — developed under Alpha Phase Studio AB — that a single independent trader can deploy, operate, and extend as one coherent system. Not a SaaS product, not a framework, not a tutorial, and not a pile of disconnected tools: a working operation you run on your own infrastructure and own completely.

The platform does not run itself. The i26g Control Plane takes it through its whole life cycle — building, releasing, operating, and changing it — on infrastructure of your choosing, on premises or in the cloud. That gives the platform a disciplined life cycle from the start, rather than one bolted on once something has gone wrong.

The platform is in active development and being built against a real trading operation — the feedback loop between the code and actual use is the quality mechanism. Features are added when they are needed in practice, not speculatively, so the system grows in the order real trading demands rather than to a fixed spec.

The design is deliberately opinionated for the target: a single trader running a focused strategy set, not a multi-user platform or a fund-grade system. If you outgrow it, the foundation is designed to be replaced piece by piece rather than all at once.

Making It Yours

Because the platform is self-hosted and composed rather than sealed, it is built to be extended as your edge develops. i26g Custom Development is that work: strategies, integrations, and the operational pieces a specific trading operation needs, on the platform or the control plane that runs it.