An administrator agreed to edit my original post in this thread. And he put the change in bold. The change was to clarify the business model....
Interestingly, the most challenging part was getting the black box server portion working reliably with MB Trading. Specifically, there are...
Well, it's several years, if you include: 1. Trying to build an automated system using other platforms and learning their limitations. 2....
I dont' think I mentioned market replay. TickZoom allows you play though ticks in a back test while showing you on a chart. You can choose the...
You should be able to use VS2K8 pro to do this without a problem. Code folding is certainly nice. I think I can get stuff setup for beta...
For documentation. It'll use the same wiki website that ZedGraph uses. Give me a few days to setup the wiki at tickzoom.org. I can create some...
Good question. For documentation, I want to imitate the ZedGraph project documentation. It has been very quick and easy to learn. It uses...
Exactly my feeling. The critical component, it seems to get a good open source product off the ground is, first of all, a solid, we designed...
Both. Let me discuss the GUI design and features. One important irritation with some of the commercial trading platforms I found was that they...
Right. Still, they say you have to pay to run it in "production". So I need to find out how much that is. Anyone know? If it's affordable, I'd...
Equalizer, interesting post. I can't find prices on their sites. But first impression is they market to "institutions" and so are probably...
Quite true! In fact databases are out of the questions too. I experimented with several and personally have 18 years experience with high...
That's a very interesting point. My platform certainly has the feature of working with "baskets" of instruments. It even has the ability of...
I'm glad you mentioned E.L. I'm considering a couple of different approaches to that. The best, I think, would be to have various examples of...
Thanks for the questions! I'll answer one question at time. First about tick data format. Format. I use a different format for performance....
It takes many months of work to build your trading platform as many have done. (I know because I did that myself.) What do you think of forming...
Why another trading platform? Well I previously back tested trading strategies on many other commercial products. In all cases, I ran into 4...
Folks, Please join in a discussion of your thoughts and/or encouragement to release an open source black box trading platform in C#. This is...
In this email, I explain how I'm using the automated logs. Hey, anybody, chime in on anything I'm doing incorrectly or could do better, please....
Just an update... This week I have been using real money and a micro lot so it's practically zero risk. Most of the time has been defined...
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