I left and i agree 100%, without the trader these firms are like any other business WO the customer. Software was awesome, CS was horrible.
Yep, same here. I left Assent a ~ a year ago. Traded there for 6 years. Anvil was a great platform but management was horrendous, which was my main reason for leaving.
Really? You get your letter confirming there are multiple bidders? Stop pretending you know what is going on with the company. When the time is right everything shady that upper management at Sungard has done will come out. Right now they are preventing customers from taking their own personal equipment out of offices. Thus preventing them from moving on and trading elsewhere. They are doing this for one reason. They want to keep traders around as long as possible so the numbers look good to the numerous bidders. The Financial division is run by a bunch of know nothing brain dead failures from other firms.
I actually thought for a second Bobarino was an Assent tech because of screen name, but he could never be him. To correct your bad information. The developer that left is a guru. He worked on ALL elements of trading systems sans programming routers\switches. One second you say you paid him? then he was not interested??? All while being employed by Assent. You are straight lying. Small changes were made by off shore development, visual changes to user interface. There are very few gurus who can aggregate all quote feeds and deliver them to workstation, very few. Indian workers did not build any structural framework or make any changes to core of system ever. The "excellent developers" are not starting from scratch, they have been *building* trading systems for over 15 years(post NWII terminals), without stealing because Anvil front end is old news. Back end(feed handlers) take years of proper development AFTER having knowledge to do it. That's why anyone can't do it. Your comments about the Head of Assent are lies too. Can anyone contact him now? I don't think so. The clearing firm has nothing to do w turn over ratio, wtf are you even lying about there? Bobarino is not good at spreading bad information.