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At 10:05 PM 5/2/99 -0400, Tom Cathey wrote:
>Hi Everyone -
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>I was wondering if anyone has developed a bare bones, real time Delphi (or
>Pascal type language) platform?
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>I've have hit my head against the limitations of TS and need to do some
>things that requires more complex writing.
<snip>
I'm using my own trading platform, but it's completely proprietary and not
at all general purpose. It's specifically geared to my own system.
As I see it at this point, there are two paths. One is to simply wait for a
new platform to fill the void. There are currently two such platforms in
development that are commonly known. TradeLab is in beta (and no
information is being publicly disseminated about it at this point).
TraderWare is in alpha per Mark Brown's last statement on this. Despite
what anyone may represent about either of these, they are, and will
continue to be, vaporware until delivered. Given the difficulty of hitting
delivery targets with complex software projects (see Microsoft, for
example), no projections are meaningful.
The other option is to program your own limited system as a temporizing
measure. This is not as insurmountable as it may seem. It can be done in
VB, although Delphi and C++ make some things easier. Interfacing to a
package such as the System Developer's Kit (SDK) for the Universal Market
Data Server is not very hard. Also, I'm using a third party graphics
package called ProEssentials 3 from Gigasoft. Again, this takes some
programming, but it can be done by someone with reasonable programming skills.
Allan
"Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to
Cape Canaveral." - Anonymous
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