>> So... 50k isn't a lot. Neither is 100k. 50 bucks per month is nothing either. These are likely all to be shit platforms. Amen to that bro, you seem to know your doing. So.. from my initial $2M team, I'm the only one left in Eastern Europe due to a conjecture of things, not the least being that if in a population of 200 moderately wealthy and highly educated millions the only job ad you're ever going to see stating "quant developer" is mine, then I got a pretty good chance of standing out from the crowd. And I dare you... look on all Eastern Europe job boards. The part of them who already write English are the relevant ones, trust me you won't find "kvantum fejlesztő" on the Magyar one. >> Small and medium sized HF's probably don't want a custom developed system, because of the ongoing cost to keep it running and that you'll be reinventing the wheel for most of it. Well, they'll be paying for another 1000+ team of people to develop nothing over 100 years, so I get their point. P.S. Look for a "hiring quant developer" job ad. If it's anywhere in Eastern Europe, 99.98% it's me. That 0.02% uncertainty is the only reason you don't precisely know who is me.
Anyways, let me come back to the original idea of this post. I'm getting $50,000 in sponsorship money from a government programme designed to help startups. I'm putting $50,000 of my own money in the game *in addition* to my work in a strategy R&D software that I'm getting a lot of interest in from retail traders from this forum and other places who tell me how they'll break the Cantor limits of countability on the money they'd make with it, should they have it. Only they can't spare $50 lousy bucks to pay for an existent one, let alone the $500 I'm putting into it each month. Told them about the government programme and they ain't interested. But sure they are interested in me paying for marketdata and programming it for them for free. Great trader deal indeed, between me getting $50,000 from the government and me paying $500 / month out of my pocket while simultaneously working for them, they sure know which option is best for them. GO FUCK YOURSELVES!
Anyways, always have a plan B as alternative for the $50,000 plan A. Better even, a plan C. Professionals always do ABC actually: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/always-be-closing.asp