need a trading engine

[ScoobyStoo]

Quote from johnnyqpublic:

Ideally, though common sense tells me that it is folly to blindly follow this aphorism. I should explain. I have steady work now, but I make about 1/7 of your daily rate every day. If someone decided to hire you, for every day that you work, it will take me seven to catch up. Does this mean the people who are paying me are not receiving as much? I doubt it, but I have no way to know, as this depends on character and skill, and I have way past interactions here to ascertain either about you.

As it stands, I have less money to spend on beer than you do, but I assure you that I enjoy mine greatly.

My comments weren't meant to be inflammatory. I'm simply stating facts. If you had the skills and experience I have then you'd be able to charge yourself out at the same rate as me. Since you charge yourself out at ~$300 per day then you either do not have the skills or you don't realise what your skills are worth.

Marketcetera is a decent enough platform to build on, but the real work in this project appears to be the provision of high performance asynchronous market data analysis. And that's my area of expertise.

Anyway, no offence intended.

All the best.

 

[ET99]

people who trade 100s of stocks real time do not use Ninja, nor TradeStation, nor any of the retail programs on the market right now.

 

[Zephas]

Quote from ET99:

people who trade 100s of stocks real time do not use Ninja, nor TradeStation, nor any of the retail programs on the market right now.

What options are available for something that sophisticated? Is there anything you could use to do this yourself? (Assuming a background in programming.)

 

[RockMachine]

Quote from ScoobyStoo:

My comments weren't meant to be inflammatory. I'm simply stating facts. If you had the skills and experience I have then you'd be able to charge yourself out at the same rate as me. Since you charge yourself out at ~$300 per day then you either do not have the skills or you don't realise what your skills are worth.

Marketcetera is a decent enough platform to build on, but the real work in this project appears to be the provision of high performance asynchronous market data analysis. And that's my area of expertise.

Anyway, no offence intended.

All the best.

Would you be willing to work on a P&L split + 100% bonus of your
quoted daily rate.

 

[johnnyqpublic]

Quote from ScoobyStoo:

My comments weren't meant to be inflammatory. I'm simply stating facts. If you had the skills and experience I have then you'd be able to charge yourself out at the same rate as me. Since you charge yourself out at ~$300 per day then you either do not have the skills or you don't realise what your skills are worth.

Marketcetera is a decent enough platform to build on, but the real work in this project appears to be the provision of high performance asynchronous market data analysis. And that's my area of expertise.

Anyway, no offence intended.

All the best.

No worries, I'm neither inflamed nor offended. I was a bit surprised at $2000/day, but as you say, perhaps I just don't have a good handle on what the market will bear. My ~$300/day is not for trading-related work.

 

[ScoobyStoo]

Quote from RockMachine:

Would you be willing to work on a P&L split + 100% bonus of your
quoted daily rate.

No. Sorry. I'm not looking for a trading partner and I do not want to take an investment in anyone else's strategy.

Tell you what though, it's fairly obvious you don't have a sufficient budget to outsource this work but if you decide to undertake it yourself using .NET then I'll try to give you some pointers with the problems I'm fairly sure you will run into. Just PM me.

 

[RockMachine]

Thanks but no thanks. Would it be possible for you to post or PM me ytd.
results of current strategies you trade. TY

 

[propseeker]

Quote from RockMachine:

Thanks but no thanks. Would it be possible for you to post or PM me ytd.
results of current strategies you trade. TY

yea, i'm sure he'll get right on that.

 

[brownegg]

Quote from propseeker:

yea, i'm sure he'll get right on that.

Right. Can't say I saw that coming.

 

[ScoobyStoo]

Quote from johnnyqpublic:

My ~$300/day is not for trading-related work.

Good software developers are two a penny. Good software developers with in-depth knowledge of the markets are not.

If you have the skills then you should be charging more. A lot more.

I don't know where you are based but here in London the hedge funds expect to pay at least £1000 per day for someone decent. If you quote a lower rate you will actually shoot yourself in the foot because they'll assume you are no good. Beware though, before you are allowed anywhere near their operations they will wrap you up within a legal straightjacket so tight it makes you squeak when you fart.