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Hi
I hope i will not beyond topic.
I don't know if this will usefull for you but there is an open source
trading software in:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemarket/
Perhaps i will be usefull to contact the developers
regards.
William
Michael Berger wrote:
>
> Proposal:
> *******
> Rather than a pure open source code system, there may be
> 10 - 20 other people such as myself , willing to kick-in
> $10,000 or more to complete a project such as Traderware.
>
> Background:
> **********
> I am not a programmer, but a trader for more than 30 years,
> including a number of years using my own real-time trading
> system to manage money in futures. I stared my system
> testing with System Writer, did some beta for TS, but never
> liked the product, and for most of the 1990's my platform
> was a proprietary DOS version of Futures Truth's EXCALIBUR.
> (I made a deal with them to receive full MAC source code in
> exchange for my having it ported to DOS.)
>
> About 6 months ago a friend & I purchased a testing
> platform, written by a programmer I had worked with for
> several years, who had used his program for more than a year
> to manage futures money, including Forex.
>
> We paid around $ 20,000 for the Visual C++ program, with
> all source code, and have had 2 programmers working to
> modifying the program, with maybe another $ 50,000 expenses
> thus far. We suspect in a couple of months we will have a
> backtesting platform able to test portfolios on thousands of
> intra-day stock data.
>
> Our platform may or may not be easily adapted for live
> real-time trading. My experience over the years is that
> backtesting & real-time trading / monitoring are two
> entirely separate functions, and different programs are
> advantageous.
>
> I'm not stating the above to create an interest in our
> testing platform: we have no intention, nor desire to
> market it. (As Patrick Gamble pointed out, that would turn
> us into salesmen; we are system developers/traders.) We
> intend to use it for our own trading, and possibly establish
> a hedge fund.
>
> More on proposal:
> ***************
> However, I might be interested in a product that could
> handle real-time monitoring of up to a couple of thousand
> intra-day stocks, at least a few dozen different portfolios,
> and a number of separate accounts, work with several
> different data feeds, possibly integrate with an online
> broker, etc.
>
> Important factors would be a sensible game plan,
> responsible, full-time management, programming response to
> input from the "investors", and perhaps some profit-sharing
> if the product is ever developed into a full commercial
> product.
>
> If anyone ever desires to go this route, please keep me
> posted.
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