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Is anybody receiving market data via TT FIX (or any other FIX provider, for that matter)? What has been your experience? For how many instruments are you pulling down data? Any nightmares to share? Are we better off waiting for TT to offer FAST (and use the API in the meantime)? Thanks in...

I'm afraid so. It really depends on where you are, though. In many locales, you don't need to register as an RIA. If that's the case, then you don't need the 7/66. But then if you grow to a certain size and have over a certain number of clients, then you'll be subject to SEC registration...

While there are ways to get around registering as an investment advisor, chances are you will have to register at some point on some level (either state or federal). As that's the case, you'll need your Series 7. Though it's a nuisance, it's an easy exam. In the state of California, for...

Thank you very much! I thought the forum was at the DevNet site. No wonder I couldn't find it. Thanks again.

Of course he can only answer for himself. But he invited discussion and other points of view. Isn't that why we're all here? And believe me, I know far too much about how much I don't know to try to act smart. :D

I think nobody answered it for a while because it *seemed* too simplistic. It's one of those questions that would elicit a response such as: "Well, that's obvious! Price is...uh...er...well...I'm not going to answer that stupid question!" The problem with using last price as the "price" is...

You ask a very basic question that is hugely important and difficult to answer. Most systems traders (from what I can gather) use last_price as the "current price." For what I'm building, the last_price is used in the analytics, but the current bid (for a sale/short) or offer (for a buy/cover)...

I'm trying to determine what data fields TT's API offers. Specifically, does it offer the current most active contract? For example, if I type "GCA Comdty" into Bloomberg, it spits out GCQ7. And if it doesn't offer any sort of most active contract function, does it offer trailing volume or...

I'd be up for some tennis in the South Bay area. If we get enough, perhaps we could play some doubles. I play at the Live Oak Park facility in Manhattan Beach. I'm probably barely above a 4.5 these days. polr

I've always had good luck with computing.net.

I have to admit that I was one of those guys really looking forward to Vista's release. I was enticed by the pretty bells and whistles. So I ordered a couple new laptops with Vista preinstalled so I could play around with it. I kept one and gave one to my mother. The instant I started...

I'm a longtime user of Norton Antivirus. All I can say about Norton is...don't. In many ways, it acts like the malware against which it's supposed to defend. I installed ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite on one computer. If you want a lot of protection (firewall, antivirus, spyware...

Factiva will do exactly what you want. You can get an account and look at just headlines and the first line of a story for $69/year, or you can sign up and pay to see entire articles. It goes back about three decades for many sources and has around 8,000 periodicals in its database. I use the...

I've searched high and low for a replacement to Bloomberg, but it doesn't exist. So I put up with their pricing and their policies. I've used some Reuters products in the past, and they were pretty decent, but Bloomberg blows them out of the water. And if you need access to news/analytics on...

I guess it's all about what you're doing. If you're looking to tinker with a few ideas for fun/educational purposes, then go with Wealth-Lab. If you're looking to put serious capital into a strategy and you want a robust platform, then QD is very nice. As for the $5k/month, that's what the...

SmartQuant sold the institutional rights to the QuantDeveloper suite of products to QuantHouse. I believe QuantHouse charges around $5k per month (though you would need to confirm this, as I believe there may be different price points). I was able to get the suite directly from SmartQuant...

Hi Nitro, I'll continue to check out the site you mentioned. Thanks...I find your posts quite valuable. polr_trader

Hi Sam, I'm using the full SmartQuant suite: QuantDeveloper, DataCenter, and CATS. There's no getting around the fact that QD is expensive. If any of the ~$1k products out there could handle my needs, then I happily would have stuck with one of them. Another option was to have a programmer...

Hey Nitro, Why do you believe that Simons et al. are using the Ricci curvature tensor? I ask because I consider myself something of a Simons follower/watcher. I've had discussions with 1) funds of funds that were at one point invested with RT; 2) a couple guys who were literally among the...

As the starter of this thread, I suppose I should give my conclusion. I liked RightEdge quite a bit, and I found the company to be quite responsive to my questions. In the end, though, I wanted a product that would help me get my ATS up and running in a robust and professional manner as...