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About The Applied Research Company
Since 1985, The
ARC
has assisted a variety of organizations in the design,
development, and delivery of financial software applications.
Our
involvement ranges from
product concept and design to documentation, training and marketing.
Clients include software providers,
service bureaus, brokers, proprietary trading
firms, and
financial
exchanges throughout the world.
The
ARC specializes
in the research and design of applications for analyzing
exchange-traded and OTC financial
instruments, including stocks, bonds, commodities, futures,
and options.
Past projects have included:
- Research on financial modeling of CFDs
- Research for single stock futures
product
- Design of margining algorithm for FX options
- Design specification for bond trading workstation
- Design specification for energy trading
workstation
- Design of interface for futures-options analysis
product
- Design and development of physical
commodity hedging system
- Design of volatility modeling
module for FX options analysis product
- Documentation and sales force training for futures
workstation product
- Promotional copyrighting and
presentations for options analysis product
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John C. Nelson is president and co-founder of The ARC.
Mr.
Nelson has traded stocks, futures and options since 1981.
The ARC is a Commodity Trading Advisor, registered with the US
Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
He has
written articles
and has presented seminars worldwide on trading and
technology, and has acted as a judge in design competitions. He
is an industry advisor to the McCormick School of Engineering
at Northwestern University.
Mr. Nelson graduated Pi Mu Epsilon with a
B.S. in Mathematics and a M.S. in Statistics from Kansas State University. Mr. Nelson also holds a Master of Engineering
Management degree from Northwestern University. He is a
member of the International Association of Financial
Engineers, the Society of
Technical
Communications, PRMIA, Mensa USA, and Who's Who in the World.
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