I hope - and i dont want to filter the stored data
Just to be sure 
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Has it occurred to anybody yet that perhaps not everyone needs to be glued to a screen 24x7 to be a profitable trader?
Shock horror, I also read books, and spend time with my family! Crazy, isn't it? But then I sometimes have a thing called spare time.
I know, I know, I should be sectioned under the mental health act.
To the rest of the guys, many thanks for your inputs. I have enough material to get started, so your efforts are much appreciated.
Omigosh...unless you are sadistic or have really super-specialized trading requirements, why on earth would you create a trading PLATFORM from scratch when there are so many API's and programmable platforms out there already ?Quote from Gamer:
DCraig
I'll also have a look around C#, purely because it looks and feels like Java and I'll be able to use the .Net framework. I didn't seriously consider Java, I will now.