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hilarious

simplest is to use sqlite (no admin headache). :cool:

fix

the only reason matlab is still popular is because its given to students in college. so they come out, know it, and recommend it. Thats slowly being shifted to python and r. why pay for matlab when python is a free equivalent? but i do remember a manager of mine asking what is the enterprise...

sure here... prices=[34.2,12.43,18.88] sum(prices)/len(prices)

big institutional customers like pension funds are the biggest fish. Also, large corps that need to hedge or invest shortterm (ie. rate swaps). I think this is the case in not only trading/investing but most things; the employees of the large firms have no skin in the game so dont care paying more

cloud is dead slow. its for scalability not performance

go back to tmg or one of the other firms in town.

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you make money market making ,spreading, or beating the system :eek:

youdont need hdf5 for endof day data. any relational db would work fine. you can connect to them with any language with odbc or natively(most of the time)

i been running openbsd since 2.5. it works on most hardware and is simple to install. i tried ubuntu and centos recently on a dell celeron laptop and neither installed; openbsd installed in minutes. However, i dont use bsd for anything realtime trading related

condor

i could do this easily. how much would you pay?

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=241091&perpage=6&pagenumber=2 in the latest tws you can trade native IR intermarket spreads and crack spreads, and intramarket spreads

market making

If the coding part was so easy then the testing would be irrelevant. The coding is the whole thing :eek:

why would someone join this? whats the incentive? From my point of view this is only good for someone who doesn't know anything or someone who always loses money. Unless your salary is over 250k

not sure about ninja but in general most APIs pass back errors/fills/etc. so you do something like onfilll(messageobject){ print messageobject.quantity, messageobject.orderid } onerror(messageobject){ print messageobject.error }

thats the same thing as on the floor when a filling broker would send all his orders to his brother in the pit.