Actually, they support any Linux you like, as long as you'll build it from source there (which I did on the distro I was using). I also tried running it on 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04, where it didn't work. I'm guessing something about their packages had a 32-bit affinity compiled in -- compiling it myself there fixed this problem.
Just to refresh this thread... Very interested in learning more about marketcetera. Is the original restriction that only US equities are supported still valid? A marketcetera employee on the previous page mentioned hedge funds were adding their own support for futures as an asset class.... any prospect of that going back into the open source toolbox?
I thought the product also supported FX trading but I don't recall for sure. I spoke with them briefly today and they said they were working on another round of financing so they could add new features such as backtesting.
I have been recently evaluating Marketcetera for deployment in my company compared to some other proprietary tools and got links from this thread about some other open source tools to check out. Marketcetera does not seem to support FX as yet. Another problem is their lack of out of box support for other than tick data, though esper is capable of building bars from ticks, it will be your job and historical availability will not be there. Another issue is that routine stuff like indicators etc. is to be user implemented...not available "out of box". Many would prefer this as coding your own indicator may be considered as more accurate if you are a genius or paranoid, but I would like to focus on trading strategy rather than build its building blocks. But still, Marketcetera is a good framework to build upon, if you would like to roll your own platform. Broker Adaptors though are Paid. They call them certified adaptors. However, even uncertified adaptor code is not in the platform. I may be getting someone to code an unsupported/community supported IB adaptor. Have given a proposal to this effect to my company about getting it developed and putting it in open source, if we choose Marketcetera. Lets see what happens.
Hi I'd be interested to hear whether you went with Marketcetera. I'm looking at them myself and was wondering if you have released an open source IB adapter/connector ? Regards, Oliver
Folks, I started following this thread recently. I have been developing with Marketcetera s/w for almost a year now. My enhancements include: - build market-data adapters - build FIX connectors - introduce new asset classes - enhance GUI - write strategies in Java/Ruby - introduce GUI to monitor/control strategies ....etc Let me try to address some of the questions raised in this thread: - only US equities are supported ? the symbology adopted by metc is open-ended and simplistic, so, it can be modified to support other asset classes. There is inbuilt support for equities & options. - IB & other FIX-Connectors The IB-FIX-Connector is available for a price. Additional FIX-connectors can be developed by writing so-called 'Message Modifiers' in Java. Dictionaries can be added. FIX-recovery is provided via quickfix/j, however, I cannot vouch for it's robustness...I am testing it myself & I will be able to provide feedback in a month or so. - Market Data Adapters metc provides adapters (not opensource) for activ. Additional adapters can be developed, however, you need cutting-edge java knowledge. You also need to reverse engineer metc's sample adapters, unless, you have access to their internal developer docs. - Last I checked, Marketcetera could not use a quote feed from FIX Actually, 1 of the sample adapters does support quote-feed in FIX - Back-testing data No inbuilt support for this (yet). However, I did see that a CSV-Adapter is available, so, if you can get CSV data from another source, this should be relatively painless (unless, you want to throttle the data-rate). - Linux support typicaly, lags behind windows support by 3-6 months - Sanjay sanjaydas-dot-com