Comments on: Drumroll… Marketcetera 1.0 is now available http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/ Open-source trading software Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: PB http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1904 Wed, 27 May 2009 05:43:29 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1904 Say yes to change and technology..hedge fund is not a exception to this.Dec 2008 is more or less the bottom and from Jan 2009 onwards it should all be up and up. If the hedge funds always stick to the basic common sense approach of not becoming too greedy and leveraged , I think they would prove to be the catalyst for the much awaited recovery.

]]> By: Andy http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1778 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:46:03 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1778 Wow, looks very good!

]]> By: Toli Kuznets http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1765 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:20:27 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1765 Ian, that’s a very good point – a trading system is useless without market data. We have a few market data adapters (Activ, for example), but they are not part of the open source offering, they are only available to supported versions of Marketcetera.

]]> By: Ian Kaplan http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1764 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:08:35 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1764 The one piece that is missing from the infrastructure is market data. Finding market data that will interface with a Java based trading system that is hosted on Linux can be difficult as I’ve noted here. The vendors that I found were expensive and cumbersome to use (e.g., you had to set up VPN to connect to their data feed). Historical data, for back testing, is another problem.

I don’t expect either tick data or historical data to be free. However, it would be great if the time needed to get these services was reduced.

]]> By: Toli Kuznets http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1763 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:36:57 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1763 Husain, it’s probably better to move this discussion to the Marketcetera mailing list – but since Tradebase and thus RoR is not on a critical trading path, and is just a secondary trade/positions mgmt application, we haven’t had any issues with performance.

]]> By: Hussain http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1762 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:50:57 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1762 And performance? How about stress? I have worked with RoR and I strongly believe it consumes a lot of resources -I may be wrong though..

]]> By: Toli Kuznets http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1761 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:19:36 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1761 Hussain, we chose to use RoR to implement Tradebase, ou web-based positions and trade management application for all the usual reasons that everyone picks RoR: it was easy to get started, it seems like an interesting technology (at the time) to learn, and it was very flexible but still very simple to use.

]]> By: Hussain Fakhruddin http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1760 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:56:07 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1760 Hi, Could you possibly tell us why RoR platform was chosen?

]]> By: Josh Nursing http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1759 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:56:49 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1759 Congratulations on reaching that milestone. I think Marketcetera is the best platform to build on and the choice of JRuby poises it as a major environment to build new tools for strategies.

]]> By: Open Source Trading: Marketcetera Platform 1.0 now Available http://blog.marketcetera.com/2009/01/14/drumroll-marketcetera-10-is-now-available/#comment-1757 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:45:11 +0000 http://blog.marketcetera.com/?p=158#comment-1757 [...] company providing open source software for automated trading systems – on the 14th of January released its new Automated Trading Platform [...]

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