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    Experienced software developer - Ideas wanted!?

    In my city i dont know of any trading firm reinventing a database or datastore. They use an existing solution.
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    Experienced software developer - Ideas wanted!?

    Most use existing software like spark or hadoop. Nosql databases. Job schedulers. Rarely do you see a firm ,let alone a hedge fund ,write these from scratch which is the interesting development piece. Using these tools is mundane ETL that can be outsourced to someone like yourself for peanuts
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    Experienced software developer - Ideas wanted!?

    that actually would be cool. And if someone wrote a system like that I am certain they could get a job in trading. It shows ability to be creative and think uniquely unlike all the how to store tick data, backtest, big data bs
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    Experienced software developer - Ideas wanted!?

    integrated combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious,interrelated whole I want to wear occulus gear and see the market, positions, orders all around me. I want to be able to motion my hands and buy/sell/cancel. I haven't seen anyone do this.
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    Experienced software developer - Ideas wanted!?

    are they integrated with a trading platform?
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    Experienced software developer - Ideas wanted!?

    this firm tracks twitter and sites ... http://www.seleritycorp.com/ You should lower your ambitions and just do something simple and sell it or lease it in high volume. And by simple I mean something so easy you might think no one wants it. If you want to go down the interesting path then...
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    Calculating PnL from log prices

    Convert back with exp()
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    Is there a way to put a "Ignore" or "Block" Trolls from our Posts?

    trolling is ingrained in ET
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    yet another trading platform

    from my location, the trading firms like to reinvent the wheel or use an off the shelf product like TT, optioncity, orc ... What you're proposing seems to target the firms that write their own stuff and they always think they are really fast
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    Two competitors in one portfolio

    if you own an ETF then you're long several competitors
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    yet another trading platform

    There's limited demand. What's your website?
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    automatic quoting ETFs

    Its not a secret. You can easily google it
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    automatic quoting ETFs

    most of the volume in european etfs is over the counter
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    Software with buy/sell signals?

    How much you willing to pay? I can give you all the signals you want
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    here's a java version if python isnt your thing http://bit.ly/IBorderbuilderJava
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    Market correlations and risk

    well historical var just runs over historical data and you look at worst cases... when shit hits the fan and correlations all go to 1. i dont know about changing correlations; maybe that can be done in a montecarlo approach when you bump a variable and rerun but thats a guess
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    Market correlations and risk

    Run historical riskvar over your portfolio. Or run various margin whatif scenarios
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    http://j.mp/iborderUtil
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    you just set create a new order and set m_parentId to the initial order def createBracketOrder(origOrder, oID, tif, orderType,price): bracketoptOrder = Utils.makeOptOrder( Side.flipside(origOrder.m_action), oID, tif, orderType,price,origOrder.m_totalQuantity) bracketoptOrder.m_parentId =...
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    Creating an app for trading strategy

    Oh i didn't read the post correctly. I thought he wanted to creat am app and sell it for 100 bucks. Yes you need to register as a cta/cpo i think
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