is ECC memory necessary for quantitative trading?

[ZBZB]

I'm unsure if the OP is talking about backtesting or live trading. Very different requirements.
A proper high memory VPS is something like $400-$1000 per month. For $1000 you can already build a very nice box for backtesting.
For live trading, VPS is an obvious choice always.

Www.speedytradingservers.com will give you your own dedicated server for much less than that.

 

[d08]

Www.speedytradingservers.com will give you your own dedicated server for much less than that.

Best thing they have is a 32GB RAM machine for $220 it seems. You most likely want something more than that for proper backtesting. For live trading, sure, I mean I'm paying $10 a month and I have no complaints.

 

[trend2009]

Nope, you're doing it wrong. Don't build a computer for quantitative trading, that's inefficient and slow.
Rent a VPS that is located close to the exchange you trade on, upload your algo to it and control it from some crappy old laptop with an internet connection.

Uptime is better, tech support is better, latency and jitter is better and more constant. If you don't require a feedhandler on an FPGA chip or other HFT stuff, this is your setup of choice. And you can have this for a handful of dollars each month

is there risk my algorithm is stolen?

 

[trend2009]

I'm unsure if the OP is talking about backtesting or live trading. Very different requirements.
A proper high memory VPS is something like $400-$1000 per month. For $1000 you can already build a very nice box for backtesting.
For live trading, VPS is an obvious choice always.

i am building pc for live trading using verizon fios. the pc costs around 2500 dollars with 3950x cpu and 128G memory. renting such a server with more than 1000 dollars, is too expensive, do not you think?

 

[Scataphagos]

i am building pc for live trading using verizon fios. the pc costs around 2500 dollars with 3950x cpu and 128G memory.

Geez. Makes my Dell $225 Xeon workstation w/8GB RAM look like a child's toy.

(To be honest, that's not exactly right. Most of my workstations are that, but my primary rig which runs 4x, UHD monitors actually cost $250... as in installed an upgraded NVS 510 video card I bought on eBay for $25.)

 

[ZBZB]

i am building pc for live trading using verizon fios. the pc costs around 2500 dollars with 3950x cpu and 128G memory. renting such a server with more than 1000 dollars, is too expensive, do not you think?

what software are you running?

 

[MrMuppet]

i am building pc for live trading using verizon fios. the pc costs around 2500 dollars with 3950x cpu and 128G memory. renting such a server with more than 1000 dollars, is too expensive, do not you think?

60-120$ a month. Don't you think it makes more sense to host your algo (almost) colocated than building a high end PC and connecting it via crappy ISP lines?

It's like buying a Porsche GT3 to do your grocery runs.

 

[tiddlywinks]

Rent a VPS that is located close to the exchange you trade on, upload your algo to it and control it from some crappy old laptop with an internet connection.

Uptime is better, tech support is better, latency and jitter is better and more constant.

 

[d08]

i am building pc for live trading using verizon fios. the pc costs around 2500 dollars with 3950x cpu and 128G memory. renting such a server with more than 1000 dollars, is too expensive, do not you think?

There are other concerns beside processing power/cost. VPS have backup generators for power outages, far better connectivity etc. Any home connection is always less stable. Personally, I'd never trade from non-VPS connection again.

 

[Turveyd]

10 year old Windows 7 32bit 4GB Intel Core 2 Duo 240GB SSD runs MT4 just fine and everything else, don't worry about it too much.

A new Mid Priced CPU would only give me a 30% speed boost, hasn't really changed much over the last 10years unless your playing games it's irrelevant.

More Cores which most stuff doesn't use other than high end games so no biggy, 2 is fine