RE: Is this forum dead?

[wilhelm.stroods]

No it's not dead, just getting started. First will soon post a web page w instructions on building systems without using Glean. And some sample systems which combine the use of several indicators. Then will post the beginnings of a glean replacement w full open source, then will ask user community to help w coding all features. Then this new tool will be added to Tradelink build.  Hopefully then, Pracplay will get a clue on basic business and reality. Few if anyone would pay their completely insane prices, especially in this Obamanation of an economy.  


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From: sdadesky <sdad...@gmail.com>
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I was wondering if anybody decided to pursue development of a free compiler?

When I saw what happened at TradeLink, my conclusion was that many weeks and possibly months of
confusion would ensue during which time no progress with coding tradelink strategies would be made.

I've taught myself to program in C# as a result of starting Tradelink but do not own a compiler and am unfamiliar
with process of assembling all libraries and compiling from scratch. Then I would have to go through entire code and remove the "hooks" put in there by Pracplay to allow them to disable the compiled code at will.
I'm sure I'd eventually figure it out but I could lose several week doing so.

Instead I preferred to just code for my broker (IB) and go back to a language and platform I'm more familiar with.
This has mean throwing away 6 months of efforts on Tradelink and a strategy that was almost perfect.

I would actually have been willing to pay a reduced amount for Glean ($100 / month to develop a strategy would
seem ok ), but my conclusion was that Glean itself is still very rough. It does not save you hours and hours of programming
because it just does not work out of the box. And it seems expensive to pay $100 for an IDE that produces defective code that then has to be patched.

I will be pursuing development in Java for my real life projects, but would like to keep a backdoor open for the Tradelink libraries in
case I ever decide I need to switch brokers - although I've been using IB for so long after having used others that I do not foresee that happening barring a catatostrophic change in IB's terms or performance.

Though it would take me months of rework but even thought I had to start from scratch I'm already doing beta-testing of the strategy, so I don't regret my decision.  So I was just curious how the rest of you are faring?

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[Serge d'Adesky]

Well, I'll be glad to pitch in, though my c# skills leave a lot to be desired.
Good luck

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[Ted Penner]

I just found something called metatrader which appears to be a fully developed product way beyond tradelink capability and maturity.  It is not open-source with respect to development but the strategies developed using it are point-and-click and the output is c# code which is non-proprietary. It also connects to all the brokers.  It's a viable option to be sure.

-Ted R Penner
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