Recent content by AdrianP

I think you're right. Open source projects have been sued for patent violations in the past and I'm sure it will happen again so giving these tools away isn't a solution, even if you found people willing to go that route.

All this talk of court rulings hides the point that many people can't or won't go through the expense of fighting this. I wrote an IB front end that has some nice features and has a DOM-like interface and I wanted to share it with others but now what? I certainly can't afford to fight a...

Dan - I'm on the West Coast. There's certainly a lot of room for improvement in the UI and I bet we can dream up some more functions. If you want to start, try extracting the source (Tortoise SVN works well), building a local copy and poking at it. Most of the interesting code is in...

I put up a first snapshot of the bot at: http://code.google.com/p/tradeideasrobot/downloads/list Looking at it now it seems a bit awkward to add new strategies so I put up a wiki page describing the steps: http://code.google.com/p/tradeideasrobot/wiki/CreateNewStrategy Okay, it seems a...

I put up a project on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/tradeideasrobot/ The code isn't building properly as I'm battling with some DLL/resource issues but if I can work that out, I should be able to put up some install files within a few days. It is a pretty simple (but powerful) bot...

A year or so ago I wrote and operated a Trade-Ideas robot but when the strategy died I shut it down and moved to other things. I thought it would be interesting to dust it off, clean it up and release it as open source. It is all C# and runs against Interactive Brokers. I have never open...