Recent content by garchbrooks

Also, that girl is smoking hot. Someone give her a modeling job and any necessary surgery needed.

We should give Obama credit if he kills this industry.

Why does it have to be malicious? What if the knife pattern is just a result of some systematic behavior in the software running the market-data engine or the matching engine? Computer software has quirks like this, with things like schedulers, acquiring locks, bottle-necks, etc. The exchange...

http://www.firetree.net/calvino/alex/daemon.html Found this guy's article. Seems like an ok approach. Are there any more mainstream, well-supported frameworks that do this?

Is there any elegant, slick way to avoid having to write the ugly framework for both of these things, or can I get service-like abilities all in one shot on one decent framework?

Copper is taking a beating today. Copper producers are getting smashed. Steel (X, MT) is also getting beat up. FCX is just one of many.

Just curious how some of you guys had it during the first year.

You and me both. Anyone using these platforms day in day out feels the same frustrations, I think. I've spoken to a few people, and they all invest months into writing decent interfaces just to visualize their positions. I've heard Genesis LASER can link up API positions into its blotter if...

The release notes for TradeStation 8.1 say that you can execute orders via FIX through the TradeStation order network. I look for the documentation on this, and I can't find anything. Is anyone out there interfacing to the order network via FIX? All it says is that you can now use third party...

-$66 yesterday. I got a really weird fill and that had me red most of the day. Was way off the mark. My automated strategy is simple and relies on market orders. I haven't finished writing the code to use limit orders correctly. Therefore, occasionally stuff like this happens. It's on...

I haven't tried this yet, but I'm wondering if anyone has built successful bridges from EL strategies to .NET components somehow. Is it possible to do an arrangement where the code calls a .NET DLL instead, or do I have to use some weird arrangement? Just wondering if it's possible and/or...