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It's essentially Vista Ultimate SP1, with some UI and multimedia functions stripped, and some server functions added. Apart from configuration settings (see attachment), there is no deep internal differences. One benefit - you can install VMWare Server on it, absolutely free and absolutely...

If you plan for the future, install Vista 64 bit and make sure your motherboard supports at least 8GB RAM. Vista is smarter than XP in memory management; if you have 4GB in your machine and your applications use only 1GB, vista will use the remaining memory for cache (i.e. improve performance)...

Thanks for the list; just2trade is unencrypted indeed.

Thank's for your input, let's focus on API now. I found a broker with an API - Just2Trade. But their site looks like they are going out of business soon. Don't know why, just smells like a dead corpse.

As I said, I don't need tick data, 5 seconds would be enough, but 1 minute is not enough, and I doubt there exists anything between 1 minute and tick resolutuion. The strategy is based on some rare condition and requires quick action, but has very high winning rate. I tested it on 3 year's...

5 seconds bar would be enough for me, but they generally offer 1-minute bar and the next step is raw ticks. Looks like NobleTrader may be suitable for me.

I do know how many quotes/second I should receive - about 500 quotes/second at the peak. That's because I intentionally omit high-volume issues like QQQQ or MSFT. Depending on compression, that should be about 20-100 kilobytes/second. OK, assuming I have resolved the data feed issue, which...

DTN.IQ gives 2300 symbols at once, if I understood their web site correctly, for around $200/month. Opentick gives you unlimited symbols for free, but they are closed to new users. And I need order entry API too - I don't want to stare at the screen all day long for only 5 trades a month :)

I'm going to launch an autotrader and I need this: - real time tick data feed through API for 2000 NASDAQ and NYSE symbols simultaneously - access to historical ticks (at least last 7 days) - ability to submit orders (auto routed) through API. Unfortunately, trading volume will...

It won't - Jews are not welcome there

MySQL has two modes: one is very fast (ISAM), the other is very slow (InnoDB). The slow one supports transactions, logs and other staff you don't need for local quotes storage, so make sure you go ISAM route. All this is good for EOD and other low-frequency data. When we start dealing with...

Please post your trades log, then!

Looks like truecrypt is clear winner. Another question arises : anyone working for your broker/clearing firm/exchange has full access to your trading history. Computer technicians definitely, also support people, mail handlers, anyone. Assuming 1% of all traders are profitable, all they...

Me too! Today Google works hard to process all my search requests for low-cost or free financial news service, available in computer-readable form and with news archive going back at least a year, for backtesting. Dow Jones has such service but it costs big $$$. The only thing that...

Why should they? At 3 pips spread and 100:1 leverage, forex broker earns 1% of your account every time you buy or sell. That's the same level of profit as in a casino, but he doesn't have to build palaces, hire dancers and give you free drinks. It's in broker's best interest to...

I wrote 50GB because that's what adrive.com offers for free. I'd prefer free because if something happens to me or my credit card, after few months Amazon will erase all the data. Permanently. How's upload/download speed of amazon BTW? Adrive is rather slowish. P.S. 50GB would be enough...

A bit pricey. In fact there is also separate fee for upload and separate fee for download. Assuming you never download, but refresh your backup once a month, that's $150 / year for 50GB backup. For that price you could buy a hard drive and rent a deposit box to store it!

I screen scrape fundamentals and sector infomation from Yahoo finance. Takes ~30 min to download info for all 6000 US stocks. string url = string.Format("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s={0}", symbol); di.handleFundies = dwnlManager.AddJob(url, 30000); url =...

He doesn't "need" anything, he wants to sell it to you :)

You can subscribe to esignal and with little programming effort grab all that 5-minute (even 1-minute) data yourself. That'll take about a month and $100. DTN.IQ is an excellent source of high-quality data, you get access to several years of intraday quotes, also about a hundred bucks...