TickIt offers a technological platform that aims to empower any trader to design, create and deploy their own automated blackbox high frequency trading strategies without having to write a single line of source code.The company was co-founded in 2009 by Michael Unetich, a futures trader with more than 15 years of experience, and Rick Lane, a computer programmer who began his professional career designing computer-based war games and tools for modeling terrorist networks for the Department of Defense.