Where trading experience meets technology.
Craft Trading was built around a simple idea: trading technology should help traders execute a defined process consistently — not encourage them to chase predictions.
We combine real-world trading experience with deep expertise in software engineering, system integration, data processing, and scalable technology to build tools for systematic traders.
Our focus is on automation, disciplined execution, risk management, reliability, and consistency over time.
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From manual trading to systematic automation.
Craft Trading grew from firsthand experience in both trading and technology. Our journey began with manual trading — studying markets, making discretionary decisions, managing positions, and experiencing firsthand both the opportunities and significant risks that come with trading.
Those experiences led to an important realization:
A successful trade and a consistent trading process are not the same thing.
Over time, the focus shifted from purely discretionary trading toward a hybrid approach that combined human oversight with automation — creating structured systems around predefined rules, repeatable execution, data, and risk management.
What began as technology for personal trading eventually became something worth sharing — first with family and friends, then with a much larger community.
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Two disciplines, one platform.
Hannan brings together two disciplines that have shaped the development of Craft Trading: enterprise technology and real-world trading experience. With more than 15 years in the IT industry and a Master's degree in Computer Science, his background spans software engineering, enterprise system integration, data processing, application architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and scalable technology platforms.
Alongside his technology career, Hannan has spent more than seven years involved in trading. He began as a manual trader, experiencing firsthand the emotional, operational, and financial challenges of discretionary trading — experiences that ultimately led him toward a more systematic approach.
By combining his software engineering background with his trading experience, he began developing technology designed around automation, structured execution, repeatability, and risk management.
“My goal isn’t to build technology that predicts every market move. It’s to build technology that makes disciplined execution repeatable and consistent.”
— Hannan Abdul, Founder & CEO
Two disciplines, one platform.
Hannan brings together two disciplines that have shaped the development of Craft Trading: enterprise technology and real-world trading experience. With more than 15 years in the IT industry and a Master's degree in Computer Science, his background spans software engineering, enterprise system integration, data processing, application architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and scalable technology platforms.
Alongside his technology career, Hannan has spent more than seven years involved in trading. He began as a manual trader, experiencing firsthand the emotional, operational, and financial challenges of discretionary trading — experiences that ultimately led him toward a more systematic approach.
By combining his software engineering background with his trading experience, he began developing technology designed around automation, structured execution, repeatability, and risk management.
"My goal isn't to build technology that predicts every market move. It's to build technology that helps traders follow a defined process consistently."
— Hannan, Founder & CEO
Technology can help solve a human problem.
The problem
Trading decisions can be influenced by emotion, hesitation, overconfidence, fear, fatigue, and inconsistency. A trader may have a defined strategy but still execute it differently from one day to the next.
The approach
A properly designed systematic process can define when conditions are met, how an action should be executed, what risk parameters apply, and when the process should stop. That creates structure around execution.
Built with an engineering mindset.
We approach trading automation as more than simply creating an algorithm. A reliable platform requires multiple technologies working together — from market data and strategy logic to communication, execution, monitoring, infrastructure, and risk controls.
System integration
Connecting applications, APIs, platforms, brokers, services, and infrastructure into cohesive systems.
Data processing
Designing systems capable of receiving, processing, transforming, and distributing data efficiently.
Software engineering
Applying established software engineering practices to the development and maintenance of trading technology.
Scalable architecture
Designing infrastructure with scalability, reliability, monitoring, and operational resilience in mind.
15+ years experience
Extensive experience developing and supporting enterprise technology environments.
Consistency over prediction.
We don't believe trading technology should be marketed as a way to predict every market movement. Markets are uncertain. Losses are part of trading. No algorithm eliminates risk.
Six principles behind every system we build.
Systematic trading
Building technology around defined rules and repeatable processes rather than impulsive decisions.
Trading automation
Reducing repetitive manual execution while maintaining appropriate trader oversight and control.
Risk management
Supporting structured risk parameters and controls designed to complement the trading process.
Reliable execution
Building infrastructure designed to communicate trading instructions consistently across systems.
Scalability
Developing technology capable of supporting complex trading environments and multiple accounts.
Monitoring & transparency
Providing traders with greater visibility into their technology, connections, and system status.
Automation doesn't mean "set it and forget it."
Automation can improve consistency, but no trading technology should be considered 100% hands-off or risk-free. Trading systems depend on multiple components, including internet connectivity, computers or servers, brokers, APIs, exchanges, cloud infrastructure, and third-party services. Any of these components can experience interruptions.
For this reason, we believe automation should work alongside responsible monitoring and appropriate account-level risk controls.
Making systematic trading technology more accessible.
Craft Trading started with a personal objective: build better technology around a more disciplined trading process. The vision today is broader — infrastructure that makes sophisticated systematic trading technology more accessible, without losing sight of the principles that led us here.
As markets, brokers, and trading technology continue to evolve, we intend to evolve with them.
Built by traders
Trading experience helps us understand the problem. We've felt the emotional and operational weight of discretionary trading firsthand — and built Craft Trading around what that experience taught us.
Engineered by technologists
Engineering experience helps us build the technology. Bringing those two perspectives together — trading and software engineering — is at the core of Craft Trading.
Interested in learning more?
Learn more about our technology, systematic trading approach, and how Craft Trading is designed to support structured trading workflows.
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