Recent Content by gigi

  1. New York - London latency reduction

    I have this idea about how to reduce the latency of the link between NY - London (this would be the biggest target). State of art should be around...
    Thread by: gigi, Apr 4, 2010, 6 replies, in forum: Hardware

  2. Candle sticks or line graphs for patterns

    Not even one of the quant papers I've read used candle sticks. All of them used "line graphs".
    Post by: gigi, Apr 3, 2010 in forum: Technical Analysis

  3. Questions for Experienced IB Automated Traders

    Today, because of HFT, you need to use market orders. Limit orders will only be filled when the market goes against you....
    Post by: gigi, Mar 5, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  4. Old-timers in the industry: what is the best way to architect code?

    I agree with you, but careful, the argument goes both way. Pushing it further, I can ask why would you do the strategy in C#/Java when you can do...
    Post by: gigi, Mar 2, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  5. Old-timers in the industry: what is the best way to architect code?

    NetTecture is right, COM is not slow. As a matter of fact, DirectX is COM based. You probably mean OLE Automation, and that indeed is slow...
    Post by: gigi, Feb 28, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  6. Best practices?

    I'm also working on my own trading system, and I want to tackle this problem using the NASA way - have multiple pieces check each other. So I...
    Post by: gigi, Feb 24, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading