Quote from ktmexc20:
Consumer awareness Anton, that's all. Why isn't all your pricing available on your web-site.
BTW, you never did tell us how much the "Data Center" is on top of the $3750.00 people have been paying for the platform. You also didn't answer my question of what other costs might be incurred by potential clients.
I think you just might idolize $Bill G.
Cheers,
your friendly consumer advocate
Well, the pricing as it currently stands is available on the web side. It says contact us at sales@smartquant.com for a quote on DC and the source. What I told you privately was about our intentions to introduce several editions of QuantDeveloper, starting with "research" or "backtesting" edition that will be more affordable for novice system developers (the ones who don't really trade but want to play with their own systems, read books and test ideas). Once you develop and backtest your system and you feel like it's profitable, you can upgrade to QD Pro and start autotrading it. Once you reach top level and want to develop your canned systems or trading applications in MSVS.NET, you can upgrade to QD Enterprise and do this. Different customer groups, different pricing approaches. Indeed $3750 is too much for a student who wants to test his first system, no doubts about it. On the other hand QD is more institutional than retail product, thus we either skip students and ET customers and go for professionals with 1K/mo/seat like pricing or try to find a way to introduce institutional quality product to retail customers. Which way do you prefer?
As for the source code pricing, try to compare average financial programmer salary in the industry with QD source code pricing and you will immediately see that QD source code is extremely cost cutting and time saving solution for a trading group or even individuals who want to develop their own trading software infrastructure.
Regards,
Anton