Trading on Linux

I found general optimization in Linux is often under performing compared to Windows or Mac. Even many Mac based trading platforms (especially Java based platforms such as TOS, TWS, MotiveWave, ...etc) under perform compared to Windows versions.
 
ned davis has a platform called the technalyzer - big money very high performance program. shame they only lease it, at the time i used it they only had about 5 clients. never have i seen a faster program run huge data sets.

i used it on a hp-ux10 god it was fast did i mention how fast it waz?
 
MarkBrown said:
ned davis has a platform called the technalyzer - big money very high performance program. shame they only lease it, at the time i used it they only had about 5 clients. never have i seen a faster program run huge data sets.

i used it on a hp-ux10 god it was fast did i mention how fast it waz?
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What exactly does it analyze?
Is it TA? Ie. where one can create/apply multiple indicators/oscillators/MAs etc?
 
earth_imperator said:
What exactly does it analyze?
Is it TA? Ie. where one can create/apply multiple indicators/oscillators/MAs etc?
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ndr invented the term Techno-Fundamental so basically anything you wanted in world was at your fingertips.

I developed the Oddball Trading System on it which I published in 2000. Also the Bond model that I managed accounts with for CTA.
 
heispark said:
I found general optimization in Linux is often under performing compared to Windows or Mac. Even many Mac based trading platforms (especially Java based platforms such as TOS, TWS, MotiveWave, ...etc) under perform compared to Windows versions.
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What do you mean by "general optimization"?
Optimizations in backtestings, or do you rather mean program optimizations as done when compiling/building a program?
Ie. are you saying the same application is slower on Linux than on Mac or Windows?
Hard to believe, IMO.
Can you quantify it? How much % slower?
Do you maybe mean Windows applications running in an emulator (WINE) on Linux? These are of course slower :)
 
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Linux works great, IB worked almost perfect, if you should experience whatever limitation and have enough memory RAM, you can also ran virtually windows operative system in a virtual machine as the software virtual box, or use wine that natively allows to use windows library.

(For macos users use the great parallels that is a paid virtualization software that shines on arm new proccesors)

Trading software are not heavy as videogames at all and can run fairly easy on virtual machines.

Please bear in mind you have different version of linux every of them with some peculiarity, for instance pacman should IMO run on arch derived distro as archlinux or manjaro, and not on Ubuntu where you are going to use another tool to manage dependencies and so on.

Linux is powerful but you get the risk that you can mess things up especially with archlinux installing dependencies in roll over distro
 
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