I thought Townsend Analytics (i.e., RealTick) offered something like this called Tuber. It might be discontinued but I still see it as one of the API options they have listed on their API website. You might give them a call and inquire about it.
0) Customized to me (it does some things automagically that are not found in other systems). Also, I am free to infringe on the copyrights of all the best UIs. 1) Uses IB's TWS API 2) Written in VB .Net 3) Written for XP. No need for Multi-thread, Multi-proc 4) No server farms or anything. It's more interface than autotrader, although there are a few decisions it makes by itself. 5) Indie free, does not use indicators of any sort. Just T&S. 6) Greased Lightning. 7) A long #@^%@ time. So many cases to code for, sheesh. I'll bet it took me 100 hours to write it, and another 100 to debug it. 8) Just my time. @ $50/hour, 10k. 9) Sorta. I liked the ladder style of trading UIs, and I implemented that. There's a few other things I took as well. 10) Not as is. Some things might be copywritten, and some of the features would be difficult to explain.
The scanner I use just released some visual basic add on to their API. http://www.trade-ideas.com/ForDevelopers/ I am no programming master but...I am thinking of making a black box using their system and doing it in VB.....any thoughts or suggestion would be great. Also I am thinking of trying to make a proprietary back tester to see how different set ups act over time etc as part of black box.
(0) Custom Rules and Decision Making algorithms, (1) Scratch using various open source tools/API's (2) C, C++, PHP, Python, Mathematica/Matlab (for 1 subsystem which is being replaced by open-source solution) (3) Linux but architected to be portable to other platforms with a minimum of work should the need arise: Multi-threaded and Multi-Processor aware. (4) Grid Computing i.e. A distrbuted, cooperative system. (5) Completely extensibile and mutable since it provides for rule and decision system hooks. (6) Since it scales it is fast enough for our present and future needs - as far as we can reasonably estimate. (7)The coding of the front end and rules and processing interfaces took about a year initially for 3 engineers. (8) Cheap given the alternatives for systems with similar functionality. (9) No (10) Yes but we wont do that and have no interest in doing so ....
I just talked to Townsend. They said they are not taking new clients on the Tuber product. They said it is $1000 a month for Tuber, 500 a month for the TBI toolkit, you need to get data from another provider and the point to point t1. I am rapidly loosing hope for developing on the unix platform. Most companies don't support it or have discontinued support for it. I just talked to a sales guy that asked me if windows was different from unix and then he asked if citrix was a different os than windows. What is the datafeed of choice for developing on vb.NET? Thanks, red
Probably the normal RealTick offering. If you are developing for less than 40 symbols, IBs feed is fine. I have not tried eSignal in a long time, but I suspect that would be ok too for low number of symbols. nitro