Ashish SHUKLA said on Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:09:18AM +0530,: > vikram ranade writes: > > Does anyone hove experience running an online trading terminal for the > > BSE/NSE and other Indian exchanges > > on Linux? > > I forward this query to a friend (not subscribed to ilugd list) who has > experience in this domain, and following is his reply:
(snip) Several years back, my broker was using *nix and *BSD as a firewall. The sites were robust (as in lot in and you get presented with the login screen). And then, our stock exchanges switched over to a proprietary OS, primarily meant for desktops. And slowly, my brokers' sites started moving to that same OS. I consider myself lucky that I can actully login and trade - using the HTML interface. They also provide a flash based interface, but I find that too tedious. (I am not a trader - I buy / sell, may be once in 2 years per scrip - but record couple of transactions per month). Some more digging threw up an interesting fact - trade data in India is a closely guarded secret - pay up ₹ � to get access. No free of cost; no unrestricted access. In contrast, trading data from most other SEs outside India is available FoC and without restrictions. And there are several F/OSS tools to use this data to generate your own technical charting. The root for this, lies in the SEs themselves. They need to change their approach to IT infracture, which, currenty is a wonder why people do not care to break into. -- Mahesh T. Pai || REVOLUTION, n. An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
