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mastertrader456
Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 175 |
06-11-12 02:15 AM
Total BS and archaic..... C is one of the fastest languages. I have no clue why they started with VB in the first place. Sterling is riddled with issues. Its an opportune time for a competitor to take market share.
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syswizard
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 3640 |
06-11-12 12:47 PM
Quote from mastertrader456:
Sterling is riddled with issues. Its an opportune time for a competitor to take market share.
No question about it. Multicharts is ready to roll-out their dot-net version. Even their base product looks good....as it's multithreaded.
Problem is: they are not in the prop space. Prop firms only provide Laser, Blackwood, Realtick and Sterling platforms. Each have issues with their API. None have a robust, integrated programmable platform like Multicharts or Tradestation.
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Shreddog
Registered: May 2003
Posts: 784 |
06-11-12 01:28 PM
Quote from syswizard:
No question about it. Multicharts is ready to roll-out their dot-net version. Even their base product looks good....as it's multithreaded.
Problem is: they are not in the prop space. Prop firms only provide Laser, Blackwood, Realtick and Sterling platforms. Each have issues with their API. None have a robust, integrated programmable platform like Multicharts or Tradestation.
Green Mountain Analytics has a platform that is very competitive with Sterling for prop traders. Their API is socket based, uses text strings for messaging (but not FIX unfortunately), and does not go through the trading platform itself. I've been on it for 5 months after having been on Sterling for 6 years. It's still got some room for improvement but blows the Sterling API away.
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luckybastard
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 279 |
06-14-12 10:31 PM
Quote from Shreddog:
Green Mountain Analytics has a platform that is very competitive with Sterling for prop traders. Their API is socket based, uses text strings for messaging (but not FIX unfortunately), and does not go through the trading platform itself. I've been on it for 5 months after having been on Sterling for 6 years. It's still got some room for improvement but blows the Sterling API away.
Totally agreed that it's only a matter of time before Sterling is out of business. Their API is just a big fat joke. Using COM for API communication, LOL, COM was never designed for speed. It's obsolete and slow as hell. Socket based API, not going through the platform but directly to the server, is of course the future and I'm happy to see other platform developers do see that and are finally jumping in. Hopefully Sterling gets soon what they deserve: chapter 11.
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Reload
Registered: Jun 2007
Posts: 14 |
06-18-12 04:29 PM
Quote from clearinghouse:
The solution for this was to go to Sterling's main app, go into Quotes, and unclick "combined activeX" codes.
Hi, could you please tell me what's "Sterling's main app", do you means"Sterling Pro"? I try this on Sterling Pro and can't find Quotes->combined activeX?
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