I suppose Tradelink Free is dead?

[Julian Brown]

No activity after the resurrection of the code before Glean destroyed it.

Julian

[Carlos Huergo]

I hope not. 

Still waiting some news from Dmitry Shevkoplyas 

2014-04-29 13:40 GMT-03:00 Julian Brown <jlb...@gmail.com>:

No activity after the resurrection of the code before Glean destroyed it.

Julian

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[Jonathan Sadighian]

Hi all,

I forked the repo from Dmitry.

You can access the project on my GitHub

Link to the project is below:

https://github.com/RedBanies3ofThem/tradelink/tree/master/src-pure.rev3754.07-Aug-2013.before-pracplay-crippled-tradelink/trunk

Hope that helps!

[Dmitry Shevkoplyas]

Hi all,

I'm still passively subscribed to this list, but I gave up on TradeLink as a "dead end" direction limiting us :)

Let me recap most recent events as I see it:

1) october 2013 I managed to recollect all the latest files (manually via some "history digging" engines around internet) all I could find on tradelink before it was crippled:

 - wiki pages (very raw, not interlinked, but plenty!-)

 - latest code

 - some binaries

 - some developers stats (in hope to contact some of them some day)

 - oxygen-generated documentation

 - some related binaries

 - even some youtube videos :)

and put it all (still available) here:

https://github.com/shevkoplyas/tradelink

2) after failing to find any developers on that group offering some time/skills/ideas (the only person who actually compiled something was  Letian <leti...@gmail.com> ) I decided I'll need to pull this thing myself and started learning it deeper and 

added message queue and rebuild the IB-connector (c++) to reflect all the latest changes done by IP API - it was 

the moment when I realized that IB API is much richer and TradeLink is just like a heavy-lifting filter standing on

the way : )

my latest take on TL was "afterlife" thing published here:

https://github.com/shevkoplyas/tradelink.afterlife

please read it's readme available by the "afterlife" link above.

3) I must mention an effort done by James (who sent updates to this group from email: "Wilhelm Stroods" <wilhelm...@gmail.com>). Latest imho was 14-Dec-2013:

(quote)

Hello guys,

I have most of it done, but am at the same time, working on getting a web version up and running, so trading system developers can post their systems for lease, and non-technical users can use trading systems without having to code themselves.  

Soon will send details on the new tradelink site.    stay tuned.

James

(end of quote)

-------------------- and no major changes in TradeLink since then -------------------

again, I'm not doing and not going to do anything TradeLink- related.

I would encourage everyone here to join yahoo group TWS API:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TWSAPI/info

and start learning IB's API (what it can do and how to do it properly).

Now I'll give non-tradelink-related update on latest development :)

I started reading history of TWS API and collected own FAQ to keep lots of useful things handy:

Dmitry's TWS API FAQ

also I faced nasty time drift on my windows machine (about 0.2 seconds each 4 hours, so about 1.5 sec by the end of the day), so I had to build own NTP Stratum-1 (based on GPS signls:) server based on Raspberry Pi, which has 3.5 microseconds error (light can travel only 1km per 3.5 microsec, and now windows-7-pro machine (and other machines on my LAN) sync time each 8 seconds against this toy and have time error up to 2 miliseconds (a bit worse than I expected, but orders of magnitudes better that it was!

Again I logged all the steps here:

Dmitry's notes: How to build own Stratum-1 NTP server on Raspberry-Pi + GPS (PPS)

thanks,

Dmitry

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[Letian Wang]

Hi Dmitry and all,

Sorry to see you leaving tradelink. A loss to the community but I believe it is the way to go.

For me I started with tws group and used to build applications on top of its api. So I never thought of sticking to Tradelink. I'm still updating my version from time to time but since ultra low latency is not my objective the framework is stable enough to me, My main focus at this time is to develop new strategies. To add to your list,  https://code.google.com/p/quant-trading/source/checkout.

Best luck and keep in touch.

Letian

[Wilhelm Stroods]

Hi All,

After months of work, decided to move to Amibroker platform.

I don't want to build anything for free, especially when there is a group of A-holes (PracPlay) out there that will steal your code and try to sell it under their brand name.

Building something very special, more details to come.

James

[Dmitry Shevkoplyas]

James,

Thank you for update!

James + his team was the only hope for TL-free group.

So, to close the topic - YES, TradeLink Free is actually dead.

(not single line of code updated within last 6 months, no official repo (only few personal branches), no stable maintainer(s), no place to bug-report, no roadmap for future development, no site (with at least 'download installer' button), no installer, no QA etc.) - d e a d

Dmitry's TWS API posix C++ code examples

[Rick May]

Sorry to hear this, I was hopeful this would go somewhere.  I fully place blame on Pracplay for this mess.  Pathetic.  Anyway, we will continue to use Tradelink for the time being until it becomes impractical.  Haven't run across anything else worth the effort.

[Jonathan Sadighian]

Although progress on the project may be dead, TradeLink still works well out-of-the box.

[Wilhelm Stroods]

After a review of the features/functionality of Tradelink, I decided to buy Amibroker.  It is very cheap, and has ongoing product improvements, and a wealth

of code already written for it.   It has a mature platform, has the ability to add c++,c# dll extensibility, and has full broker connectivity.

I have spent the last few months refining my trading system which runs on it, and will post a link in about a week for you to access it.

I just dont have the resources to fix all of the inadequacies of tradelink.  This was what I feel is the best option all around.   

[TechTradingCorp]

Welcome Tradelink Users,

TRADELINK has been resurrected.

Last known good source available from   TradeLinkSoftware.com

I have a development team who will build a sorely needed UI, and easier way to run the software.

We will eliminate crap add-ons like Glean and other rubbish, and this open-source will resume being open-source.

Please notify all current Tradelink users.   I will be setting-up a user bulletin board and Wiki on the TradeLinkSoftware.com site.   

In the meantime, users can communicate on this group.

[rna...@gmail.com]

Hi Tradelink Users,

Are there some of you who still trades on Tradelink?

I am thinking to give it a try. Are the links to the code on this group still functional? Is executable included and functional? Is it possible to receive data from and send orders into Lightspeed broker server using Tradelink? 

I probably could find a developer if some fixes are needed. Since some time passed from the best times of Tradelink, maybe you know some better open source alternatives?

Thank you.

[Carlos Huergo]

good luck,rnavic

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