Merskies Trader is an in-development trading platform built around a simple idea: one system should be able to research, simulate, execute, and monitor strategies without forcing me to stitch together separate tools every time I want to test an idea. It is meant to be a serious personal trading workstation, not just a chart viewer with a bot bolted onto it.
The architecture combines a React dashboard with a Python backend that handles market data, broker integration, and strategy execution. The pieces that matter most are IBKR connectivity, a backtesting engine that shares logic with live trading paths, and real-time data handling that is good enough to support active decision loops instead of overnight batch analysis.
It is still a concept project, but the target shape is clear. Next up is locking down the strategy runtime contract, building out reliable replay and backtest tooling, and deciding how much of the agent layer should be allowed to participate in execution versus analysis only.