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    mark brown said he found the holy grail.

    When I tried to browse out to the links on this thread they did not work. The links are below: 1) http://www.oddballsystems.com/download_code.php?id=27&file=326shortcut.zip 2) http://www.oddballsystems.com/download_code.php?id=28&file=641course5.zip 3) http://markbrown.com/et/ 4)...
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    CFTC - Dynamic Trading System = Providing Trading Advice

    sell it to IBs/advisors or get licensed are two options. You might make a bit more doing it this way than you would selling it as a system to retail guys
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    Traders in Southeast Michigan?

    Birmingham here
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    best way to hack up an rdbms to approximate something like kdb for poor/dumb people

    There is another open source product called Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) that can be used to scrub the data & then load it into infobright. It works well for everything I've used it for so far. http://community.pentaho.com/
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    best way to hack up an rdbms to approximate something like kdb for poor/dumb people

    either one of these works for me: USE Futures_Data; SET @bh_dataformat = 'txt_variable'; select Symbol from Futures_Data where Symbol = "AD" limit 10; or USE Futures_Data; SET @bh_dataformat = 'txt_variable'; select Symbol from Futures_Data where Symbol = 'AD' limit 10;
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    best way to hack up an rdbms to approximate something like kdb for poor/dumb people

    Did you verify that your data loaded properly? (http://www.infobright.org/wiki/Data_Loading/) I dont remember the command, but there is one to show the table statistics to make sure your data loaded properly Did you make sure your query was written properly...
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    best way to hack up an rdbms to approximate something like kdb for poor/dumb people

    look into infobright. Also, there are lots of other suggestions in the different tick database threads out there. Eric
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    brokers that support OpenQuant

    you can always write a plugin for your broker if you want to use both them & OpenQuant. If I remember right they have a couple examples of this code that is sent with the product
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    Automated Trading Needs

    Have you done anything further with this? It seems like every time I turn around Amazon comes up with something new for EC2
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    Best practices?

    I'd list to see some ideas of others on exception type situations. I'm sure there are some I haven't thought of and others may have. We should be able to learn from the exceptions identified by others, even if they are situation specific.
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    Best practices?

    Maybe I'm missing something but I'm not seeing how you could not do this using an architecture like OpenQuant (and others use). I think its worth looking at the API guide and re-thinking some of this. PM me to discuss more if needed.
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    Best practices?

    What about looking at some of the open source projects such as TradeLink or Marketcetera for some ideas/concepts? Have you tried that? It would seem that may help you out a lot more. Eric
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    Finding and negotiating with a Prime Broker

    NorthPoint Trading Partners http://www.nptradingpartners.com/ They clear through Goldman Sachs, JPM & Jefferies. I listened to a webinar these guys did with Bob Green a while back. They seemed to be worth calling. Let me know what your experience is with them. I'd be interested in moving...
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    db40 - using it to store historical prices

    It sits on top of MySQL & is the community version of their commercial software: http://www.infobright.com/Products/Features/ http://www.infobright.com/Customers_Partners/Customers/ I currently use it for some trade data storage and am considering switching another .Net project over to...
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    db40 - using it to store historical prices

    Did you look at InfoBright at all? http://www.infobright.org/
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    Stop Front-running and sub-pennying in CL

    you sure your software isnt just showing an average fill price for several entries? 4 @ 73.07 & 1 @73.08 gives you an avg fill price of 73.072
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    Anybody is interested in collaboration of Matlab trading system?

    You can submit orders and do a lot of other things with TWS via Matlab. http://www.exchangeapi.com/Documentation.htm I'm sure there are a lot of other ways to do the same thing as these guys are doing. I'm just running an HP workstation for matlab. Most of thew time when I do any kind of...
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    Anybody is interested in collaboration of Matlab trading system?

    Your quote is incorrect: http://www.exchangeapi.com/products.htm http://www.maxdama.com/2009/02/more-matlabib-code.html There are some open source alternatives too. I use matlab to trade and am open to collaboration with others. PM me to discuss. Regards, Eric
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    does TOS support parallel processing

    try installing & using the Java Server VM: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/198577/real-differences-between-java-server-and-java-client Maybe that will help. Eric
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    SQL for trading...?

    Any further findings on Infobright? I am just beginning to use it for a tick database myself. Regards, Eric
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