Quite a few of us have been affected by the Yahoo shutdown of their free market data service. Here is a possible explanation of why, Exchanges are abusing their market dominance.
Discontent grows over exchanges' data fees...
ok you mean ETF sponsors, and sub-advisors to ETF strategies
yes, they all seem to overlap, you can add SSGA to this list
Beta ETFs are plently but it's how you put them together that is really interesting, not the instrument alone by itself
programming language should be the least of your worry, pretty much all modern language will do the job
you need to focus on the entire system design, which is far more complex to accomplish
Traders don't have the monopoly on ETFs, plenty of individual investors buy ETFs for their personal savings
Buying at the Bid ? the point of ETFs is not to play the spread, but being exposed to the long term performance of certain asset class or investment style. Buying at the bid should be the...
a Python script could load the txt file and run the trade directly with IB MQ
See my scripting tutorial for connecting and trading with IB in a pure programming environment
Has anyone tried the investment solutions offered by Robo-Advisors ?
I tried the following with a demo account:
1. WealthFront.com
2. Betterment.com
3. WealthVenue.com
4. FutureAdvisor.com
They all seem interesting even though they tend to propose the same kind of ETFs.
Anyone with actual...
there doesn't seem to be much thought put into a real strategy, collecting market data is easy, structuring in a meaningful way so it can be used for a strategy, that's another question. It has more to do with Analytics than simply storage of data and optimization of running data.
so what does the API do exactly that any good python devs couldn't do ?
is it targeted to "users" or "traders" instead of "programmers" ?
show a list of your API class with a quick description without the actual code in it to see what you are selling really.
why do we keep seeing all those frameworks when any good Python programmers could make one of its own with more flexibility and more accountability.
seems like a lot of bored developers are putting good effort into something that few needs really