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Why Java? Because it's multiplatform out of the chute with no porting required. If you start porting to multiple platforms (Mac, Linux, Windoze) you have to separately support each port. Maintenance nightmare. Java runs slower, but gets the job done at lower cost.

Haha. But if I want to quickly do something in software, the shortest path for me is C++. It's cuz it's wired into my brain. :cool: The real reason I discourage n00bs from learning C++ is keep the supply of C++ programmers small. Keeps my costing rate high. (J/K)

I can't speak for tradestation, but IB's api is C++ or Java for socket programming (preferred) . There are ActiveX bindings to VB, C and Excel but I don't think they're considered "industrial strength". IB's TWS and Oanda's FxTrade are both Java apps.

I'm a software professional and have used C++ almost exclusively for 15 years. I have had extensive exposure to other languages, and I must observe that C++ really isn't that great. Someone learning programming from scratch would find it much harder to learn that other more modern languages...

I've had generally OK responses from IB customer service. But I've also met guys who absolutely won't go back to IB because of customer service. My dad bought a Ford Falcon back in the 60's and it turned out to be a total lemon. He swore at that point he'd never by another Ford (and never...

I think there's a parameter to refresh, but the units are in minutes. If you want it fancier, you'll have to do some VBA programming.

I'm not sure what version of Excel you have (I have 2003), but you can use the Web Query function to do this I think. Find out what the URL is for the RSS feed, select "Data->Import External Data->New Web Query, and type in the URL. Then click Import to get the feed contents into the...

That's not C++'s fault, it's simply floating point number representation. You'll run into this with any language.

I'm starting to think it's cheaper to just let 'em stay home and buy 'em a couple of kegs a week. I'm going to have a whack at teaching my wife what I know. She has a science/analytical background like me so it shouldn't be too bad.

As long as the process of natural selection is thwarted and interfered with, the species as a whole will wither and die over time. Unfit individuals will be allowed to survive and pass on their unfit genes. In English, the market is being prevented from eliminating the weak players. They...

And there's of course the ambiguity in what "free" means. The fellow who's credited with saying it first is a native English speaker. Did he mean "free" as in "without monetary cost" or "free" as in "freedom"? I prefer the "without monetary cost" interpretation. :cool:

"Information wants to be free"

Isn't that cuz Napoleon killed off all the tall, young, fit guys before they could reproduce?

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I can't say what's happening to actual laid-off traders, but the young woman mentioned by the OP was clearly some kind of analyst or mid-level paper pusher. Not a trader. When you think of the military, you think of soldiers in direct combat roles. The fact is that most military roles are...

Wow, Vista is breathing down your neck and you're just now "upgrading" to XP? Get used to automatic updates and just take them all. You're simply going through the same philosophical angst that long-time XP users went through years ago. BTW, sticking with XP was a good decision. To...

DBAN writes multiple passes of random data to the whole disk. It would take the NSA 10^9 years to recover any data and they'd need a scanning electron microscope to do it. Don't worry, it can't be recovered.

Back in the 70's Baltimore was selling condemned houses for $1. The catch was you had to actually fix it and live in it within a certain amount of time.

Sadly, this video was removed from both youtube.com and break.com Here's the guy who blew up: highprobability