On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring > and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions > or experiences are welcome. > > > James
Good luck. I don't envy you and I (attempt to) do this for a living at home... TTBOMK there are no _real_ trading platforms available publicly specifically for Linux. Probably your best bet is to look at the stuff developed with R which is quite interesting but has a very high learning curve. (VERY HIGH) These packages are all part of the 'TradeAnalytics' project in R. Specific R packages: FinancialInstrument RTAQ blotter quantstrat I've used quantstrat more than the others, and have played with blotter a bit. As this is all R-based it works in Linux AFAIK. That said I do everything in Windows VMs running in Virtualbox myself and just use Windows software, including the above packages running in a Windows R-gui. HTH, Mark
