--- In [email protected], "Rob" <sidharth...@...> wrote: > > But Mike, that would never be realistic for time critical real time usage > such as day trading for example...?
Hi Rob, While my resultant question was regarding backtesting, for real time trading, my thought would be, "Why not use a cloud?" Install whatever software you need (IB, or whatever your brokerage platform is, AB, etc.) onto the cloud and have the cloud be the one connecting to your broker. The connection between the cloud and your broker should be more stable and less latent than the connection between where you are now and your broker (Unless you trade from an AT&T data center?). The question then becomes, a) are you babysitting your AB to see if it's entering trades correctly? Or b) are you the one pulling the trigger, based upon AB recommendations? a) works great, b) probably won't. Best All, Michael PS: Mike, I understand your statements about licensing restrictions, but until TJ makes AB multi-core usable they are mute. Anyone who needs an optimization to happen faster than 62 days (yes that is the actual number AB said it would take for a four variable optimization on a database with ~45 stocks, ~100,000 ticks per stock) is going to ignore that clause. Obviously an Amazon cloud doesn't fulfill "not connected via network," but sorry, no one cares. At least until the software can get done what needs to be done in a timely manner....
