Recent Content by cliff5200

  1. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    I just had to repeat the following because this is really the best way to look at it,,, this is how open source works at its best. Everyone has...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 18, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  2. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    """Based on what I learned, people always talk about Linux being free, but he points out that most people who have Linux buy a distribution in a...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 18, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  3. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    "Tickzoom sounds more like fantasy more than reality. I am betting this all BS. We get one of these threads on here about once every year." I...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  4. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Hi Big, You are talking about client side. What substantial open source projects are using C# ? I can't name a single one. What major...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  5. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    The system that Wayne has is modular and uses a high performance engine at the lowest level. At that low level there are many math functions and...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  6. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Hi Big, The vast majority of high bandwidth back end code for the financial industry (as in stock market, not banks and branch banking) is...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  7. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Both Nvidia and ATI offer C compilers and infrastructure to use their GPU's for Math processing. This is a great idea in case the speed is...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  8. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Also think about compatibility with financial industry systems programmers that may want to contribute. Almost all of the cutting edge...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  9. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    If you want to look at other large open source projects: OpenOffice - C++ and Java Linux - C and C++ Firefox - C++ and Java Anyway...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  10. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Hi Wayne, As far as speed benchmarks are concerned that is just one concern. Java has been gaining ground but the speed king is C and then C++....
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  11. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Also, on Linux you can use other free open source software mostly written in C++ (or code chunks from this software) such as Scilab...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  12. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Yes, I agree with all your points. Java is great but my thoughts are that for the main engine you want the performance of C++. The main thing...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  13. TickZOOM Decision. Open Source and FREE!

    Hi Wayne, I have been following this thread but haven't posted anything yet because I wanted to digest all of this and not add to the clutter....
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 16, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  14. Barchart data

    I just was checking out Sierra charts and noticed that their data service is provided by Barcharts. I have tested Sierra extensively durring...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 9, 2008 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  15. Barchart data

    Does anyone have experience using Barchart.com data and software? I just looked at the site and it looks very interesting but there is very little...
    Post by: cliff5200, Dec 8, 2008 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds