@propseeker, thank you. using a low priority thread is a good idea. i'll have to implement that once i get everything working.
How often do you write to the binary file? Every tick? Every 2000 ticks? Would anyone be willing to post some code? How does this look?...
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I'm half way to being automated and C++ is the most important language as far as I can tell. I read Ivor Horton's Visual C++ to get started.
For sale: Algorithmic Trading by Barry Johnson. Condition: Barely used. What a load of fluff.
I generally agree with the nanex article. It's funny, I personally believe we have a long way to go in making our markets more efficient, yet it...
Good advice! But unless it's a dedicated algo computer, I have to have font edges smoothed. And I actually prefer IE.
Very cool, and I don't know how I missed that link. Thank you very much.
man created the finite universe because you can't perform arithmetic on infinity. also there is no such thing as an n-dimensional sphere...
Open source is good, but I'd like to see a community forum to pique my interests in tradelink.
Do you have one to recommend that is sufficient? Perhaps the book has references to the more in depth sources.
I disagree. It works very well for what it is, but this is excel we are dealing with. Do people using excel to trade really need more resolution...
I just ordered this book. I look forward to becomming very well acquainted with it over the next few weeks.
It does not. It does support tick data.
right, and as your #6 is the only point that really matters(and coincidentally the most vaguely described) your advice is really not worth...
My first computer was a compaq presario 5030 my freshman year in college. It was just in time for the explosion of Napster et al. Before that...
Now after all these years I find out that Al Gore really did (help) create the internet! Oh no, this is bad. So bad. We are all doomed!...
I want to implement a trading strategy in a custom developed C++ or C# app. I'm comfortable with the regression analysis and working with...
Exactly. I started a similar thread recently. I'm looking for a 24 inch 1920 by 1200 LED backlit monitor. They are even more difficult to find....
I use a gray background wherever possible. I actually hate websites that set the background to white instead of allowing the users default...
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