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It would be a wonderful world if we would switch to Linux but that is not
the case. There is little to
no existing professional software for the trader on that system. Despite
having been one of the
Linux developers in my college days from 1991 through 1996 I am forced onto
a windows platform.
In all fairness neither BRIDGE (http://www.bridge.net), Reuters or Primark
(Which I consider the best) with their
Datastream package offer Linux versions.
For the non-trader it is a wonderful system. But if you are like me who
spends the majority of the day searching for correlations
and market patterns to grab an edge, you would rather wait another 2 to 3
years. Or get Sun Solaris (Free, you only pay for shipping)
and have the professional BRIDGE UNIX Version installed. (Does cost a lot
more, but will have a longer uptime). Used by Moore Capital,
Quinn Holdings, Midas Fondsmaengal, and many other Hedge Funds.
On the Subject of Free Realtime data. It has slowly found its way into the
Media. (my.money.net) offers free live streaming quotes.
My.esignal.com Offers free streaming quotes too. This however is just the
beginning.
Niederhoffer once said "All you need to enter the game is a steak to play, a
phone, and if can afford a PC." The word "value" is a misnomer.
Regards
Shawn
"it is not how right or how wrong you are that matters but how much money
you make when right and how much you do not lose when wrong." ... George
Soros
Ricercar Fund /SA "Quarendo Invenietis"
Website: http://www.ricercarfund.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Gurke [mailto:Ray_Gurke@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 1:35 PM
To: [ tradergirl ]; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Tradegirls philosophy must be stopped
YES!! You go, Girl! ...once you go Linux, you'll never go back to MS
Bloatware, blue screens of death, unrecoverable application errors,
slooowww - piggy performance and endless, expensive "upgrades". I can only
hope that more and more developers ( private and commercial) in our small,
vertical market will embrace the Linux platform and free us from the
necessity of being shackled to Microshaft.
----- Original Message -----
From: [ tradergirl ] <tradergirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 11:03 AM
Subject: Tradegirls philosophy must be stopped
> Okay, let's break this down, to finally find enlightement, shall we?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 5:40 AM
> Subject: Re: DBC Microsoft Mentality
>
>
> >
> > -- Tradergirl (the prolific) wrote:
> >
> > > ... See, that's what's great about Open Source,
> > > Linux, and Free Software -- the ability to exchange
> > > unhindered. The true spirit of trading incarnate.
> >
> >
> > Eh? The true spirit of trading is casting lots? You throw in what you
> want to throw in and *maybe* someone will throw in something useful to
>you?
> That is not trading, that is altruism. Trading is exchanging *value for
> value* - I give you this thing of value, directly in exchange for that
> >thing of value. You have nothing of value to exchange? Then you can't
> *trade*.
>
> No it is not altruism, it is 'market making' in its most fundamental form.
> I am no altruist, if anything, I am a rebel spirit, a tigeress who likes
to
> claw at the bad guys out there, as I climb to the top. Market Making?
Yes,
> if I can use my skills to help release an open source approach to
technical
> analysis with like minds, it introduces technical analysis to the market
> place in a more efficient manner. It can thus educate people cheaply (ie.
> free downloads as opposed to $2495 + $300 a month, and $430 startup; to
see
> if they are any good), more people involved, more using technical
analysis,
> then it re-inforces the marketplaces movements even more. But that's not
> why we do these things, we do them to see if they can be done, to create
> value for the marketplace, and the religion of technical analysis in
> general. I do not want to make money off traders before they hit the
> market, I want to give them a good tennis raquet, some nice Nike's, and
some
> instructions before we got at it.
>
> Now maybe I would have a different mentality, but I don't see *value for
> value*, I see usurping for crap out there. Everything from ASCTrend, to
how
> Omega handled the transition to TS2, to how DBC gives customers these nice
> little phone calls. Personally, I would like to all see them eliminated,
> producing the greatest value for the trading community when it wouldn't be
> illegal to trade .ELA's between us, or the likes. I am talking hyper
growth
> here. This is the information age, information is mean to be free. it is
> the natural evolution that information seeks the path of least resistence.
>
> > What is it that "hinders" your exchange of code today? How does
> Microsoft, the greatest producer of value that has ever existed, hinder
your
> >ability to exchange anything?
>
> Microsoft was the greatest producer of value. The greatest on the
horizons
> are Linux. If you have an extra machine, I'll get you a CD of Linux sent
to
> you. You'll stick it in your CD, and boot. 30 minutes later you will
have
> a graphical networking system, with Star Office (Microsoft Office clone
from
> Sun), Netscape 4.72 128bit, a webserver (http:// anytime we want guys,
right
> to our machines, our DSL lines, no need for private hosting), a built in
FTP
> site right into the machine (upon booting, no need to configure), the
> ability to have 300 users sign into your system's FTP since it is
multiuser
> and multitasking (can be done if you use Cable or DSL), all software is
> free, and there is nothing to buy, yet you get all this and more. This is
> value. Microsoft is value for a higher price tag. Is Windows the future?
> No it isn't. The National Science Foundation just made the biggest Super
> Computer in the world, guess what it is running? Linux. Guess what my
> Pentium3 is running? Linux. Ask yourself this... could WindowsNT power
> that super computer at the National Science Foundation? Nope.
>
> Why? Because Microsoft offers value in a specific set of guidelines.
Linux
> being open, can spread rapidly unhindered by capitalism at its lowest
> levels. It doesn't see itself as necessary to make money, it sees itself
as
> a means to open up society to a new level of information and sharing.
This
> thus creates a stronger economy, and brings tools for people to
participate
> that once could not enter, thus the market gets larger. If you still
think
> I am a nut case, just realize 83% of the HTTP sites you go to are some
> varient of Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, etc. FREE.
>
> > What's that? You think that Microsoft's programmers should give away
> their work? And do you believe in slavery? Do you believe in private
> >property? Do you believe in justice (getting what you earn)?
>
> I believe copyrights are mostly a sham. I think once humanity gets over
its
> 'control issues', we'll improve. Look at the internet... it is scalable
> information going everywhere, and has transformed the world in a few
years.
> However, if everyone had (C)'s on their pages, and you had to PAY to see
> pages with (C)'s, it would be a nightmare. The freedom that is upon us is
> great. Do I believe in slavery? Does Microsoft? Does DBC? You know, I
> sometimes feel like a slave to them. I pay a fee, to be able to interact
in
> their world. What I am talking about is the end of slavery, it is justice
> itself.
>
> I sometimes ask myself, if the IRS believes in slavery. I mean, here I am
> here, and doing my thing, and they want to clip off 40% of everything I
> produce. So am I 40% enslaved, and 60% free? Yes, and if I had a chance
to
> hack into the IRS, and format their database I would.
>
> There you have it, I'm a bad bad bad girl.
>
> But still sort of cool, don't you think?
>
> :)
>
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> > The Omega Man
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