Recent Content by dazzwater

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    He could work on a C++ port of TradeLink then. Not sure about the benefits of such a project, but it'll still beat reinventing the wheel.
    Post by: dazzwater, Mar 23, 2013 in forum: App Development

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    For trading platforms, you could contribute to the TradeLink project instead of starting a new one. For risk and pricing models, see QuantLib.
    Post by: dazzwater, Mar 23, 2013 in forum: App Development

  3. Delayed Futures and Futures Options data - IQFeed vs eSignal vs Kinetick vs etc?

    Thanks for sharing your experience tiddlywinks. Which client are you using to access the IQFeed data? I'm presently considering the...
    Post by: dazzwater, Mar 17, 2013 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  4. Delayed Futures and Futures Options data - IQFeed vs eSignal vs Kinetick vs etc?

    And so I've confirmed that IQFeed provides historical intra-day futures options data (for unexpired options only) with a $68 monthly subscription...
    Post by: dazzwater, Mar 14, 2013 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  5. Delayed Futures and Futures Options data - IQFeed vs eSignal vs Kinetick vs etc?

    Kinetick, CQG, Kibot and Pi Trading apparently offer only historical prices for futures, but not for options on futures. IQFeed has real-time...
    Post by: dazzwater, Mar 13, 2013 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  6. Need historical minute data - good source?

    For IB, according to http://www.interactivebrokers.com/php/apiUsersGuide/apiguide/api/historical_data_limitations.htm it seems you can download...
    Post by: dazzwater, Mar 13, 2013 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  7. Delayed Futures and Futures Options data - IQFeed vs eSignal vs Kinetick vs etc?

    For anyone who's watching this thread, I did a bit of searching on ET and found this useful post by biba4:...
    Post by: dazzwater, Mar 13, 2013 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  8. Delayed Futures and Futures Options data - IQFeed vs eSignal vs Kinetick vs etc?

    I need to download futures and futures options intraday (1-min) historical prices for equity indices, commodities, currencies, and preferably also...
    Thread by: dazzwater, Mar 13, 2013, 7 replies, in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  9. Long-term bullish vs short-term bearish

    For a short-term bearish/long-term bullish strategy, why not just apply any combination of write short-term call/buy short-term put/buy long-term...
    Post by: dazzwater, Jan 15, 2013 in forum: Risk Management

  10. Risk Analysis: short OTM naked call Vs. covered call

    Draw the payout graphs (P&L vs stock price) and you can compare the pros and cons for yourself. Writing a call option by itself will give you...
    Post by: dazzwater, Jan 8, 2013 in forum: Options

  11. Does TWS support multiple cpu cores?

    Why do you care if it works with multiple cores? I haven't seen any TWS features that perform CPU-intensive operations.
    Post by: dazzwater, Jan 8, 2013 in forum: Trading Software

  12. Not sure what I've built.......

    Have you considered signing up with a prop firm? I started developing a simulation framework recently, in R and C++ and using historical data...
    Post by: dazzwater, Dec 5, 2012 in forum: App Development

  13. Please Help.. Please

    I faced the same problem as you when I first started out. My solution: Automate. Algorithms don't have emotions.
    Post by: dazzwater, Dec 1, 2012 in forum: Psychology

  14. Historical Fundamental Data

    The CompuStat database on WRDS. But there could be cheaper alternatives.
    Post by: dazzwater, Nov 29, 2012 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds