I'm assuming here that people trading options full-time are not day-trading them, i.e. they don't spend the day in front of their screens. How...
My original question was in the context of autotrading but it does not look like autotrading options is what people here do. I'm also learning...
Are there any advantages to OptionVue vs. the ThinkOrSwim software? I figure buying OptionVue is like instantly going 2.5-3K underwater in my...
Slowly, please! Very slowly! Is there any sense in backtesting options? Day-trading them? Thanks in advance, Joel
Folks, I may have posted in the wrong forum and don't want to re-post. I'm trying to decide whether to trade futures or options. The original...
Maybe I should ask a more general question... My first and only trade ever was a directional play on AOL when they announced unlimited modem...
Folks, Pardon a newbie question but what are the pros and cons of automated trading of _options_ vs. futures? From what I read it seems that...
Folks, Is there any interest in a wicked-fast open source order management system? I would love some advice and guidance. Your advice, my work!...
@NanaTrader This spirited discussion is not going in the right direction. I edited my blog post to clear up my intentions. To wit: Just...
Two people will appear online if they are online at the same time. Only one or none will appear if they are not. Lets stick to the topic, shall...
You need to come up with the capital somehow ;-). Developing products also fills some psychological voids, etc. I'm trying to sort of do both,...
I have to point out that I'm not horribilicus. A little investigation into our previous messages will surely prove that. With all due respect your...
This is not a problem at all. I will need to translate EL into something that my system can execute internally (Erlang). This implies that you can...
Folks, I would like you input on the platform that I'm designing. I'm thinking of building Uptick as a scalable backtesting and execution...
Just to elaborate a bit... Trading systems are essentially processes that respond to quote messages. They must always be up and running. Market...
Folks, I'm resurrecting Uptick as a real-time data and execution backend built on top of Erlang/OTP. There's more in the Google group and in my...
Anton, Would you care to elaborate on your technology? An architectural overview would help. Unless of course you were just dumping serialized...
I'm building "KDB for the rest of us" and the core will be open source. Visit http://wagerlabs.com/uptick if you are interested and click on...
I started a project just for futures tick collection. Take a look at http://wagerlabs.com/uptick. I'm doing it in Lisp, though. I will post...
The issue is the amount of programming that you need to do. I tried implementing fail-over as you suggested and did not find it easy at. Erlang...
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