platform most similar to Anvil?

[speedboy]

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Quote from Warrior4g:

Anvil is the most customizable by FAR(color,font size,columns).
Anvil also has more bells and whistles than either of the 2 and those are much more customizable as well.
Another great feature with Anvil is the main bar at the top where your login info is . you can fully customize that as well; dow average,dow futures naz and s&p; price of gold oil ect... you can also adjust the spacing,lines,the font size and also delete items that are on there by default. its a great platform and by far the best.

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As with any platform, there is a balance between features and reliability. Anvil has been completely unstable since Jan '08. Unstable is being defined here as nearly daily momentary outages (DMO), weekly string of DMOs, and of course the good old fashioned bi/tri-weekly full on crash for many minutes followed by string of DMOs.

Frankly I would be more than happy to see it lose many of the "bells and whistles" and pick up a good solid engine and tires.

YOu have two posts both bashing Assent. I'm glad to see nobody takes you seriously.

 

[sell em]

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YOu have two posts both bashing Assent. I'm glad to see nobody takes you seriously.

Sorry, to offend you but not bashing in the least bit. I assume that increased market data / volume is part of the problem. Their systems were excellent most of '07, but something seemingly did change. The lack of rapidly fixing it, or massively allocating greater resources to fix it, shows a lack of leadership.

Would be very happy to hear if you know of solution (other than just leaving)?

Just ask Esignal if the new version (10.2) was made specifically to handle issues that came from Anvil?

Anyone else having/had major problems with Anvil in the last 6 months?

 

[Landis82]

Quote from sell em:

Sorry, to offend you but not bashing in the least bit. I assume that increased market data / volume is part of the problem. Their systems were excellent most of '07, but something seemingly did change. The lack of rapidly fixing it, or massively allocating greater resources to fix it, shows a lack of leadership.

Would be very happy to hear if you know of solution (other than just leaving)?

You speak the truth.

Just doing a simple SEARCH in this forum on the heightened problems with Anvil ( earlier in the year, Feb/March/April ) will tell you as much.

The outages earlier in the year were quite numerous . . . While Assent was "scrambling" to purchas more high-end Intel processors ( that were back-ordered ) in order to keep up with the volume and increased market data, it turns out that the TCIP network itself was no longer being supported by ARCA. ARCA had gone to a "multi-cas" network while Assent was still based on TCIP.

I was told by an Assent employee that Assent was going to finally make building out a "multi-cast" network a priority, but instead they were in the middle of coming out with an options trading platform, and didn't wish to divert employees/resources away from that project. I was also told by this same employee that ARCA wound-up offering "some" support for the older TCIP network. Not sure if this really came to fruition.

In the end, I'm not sure how things wound up . . . or whether or not the issues at hand were properly addressed/handled. I have made position trading a priority and not used Anvil in six months.