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by tradelink
February 17th, 2015, 12:09 am
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: How to gain financial markets & securities knowledge ?
Replies: 6
Views: 5925

How to gain financial markets & securities knowledge ?

<r>might want 2 checkoutgleaning 4 grocercies - trading in everyday lifehttp://gleanusers.vanillaforums.com/discussion/164/gleaning-for-groceries-trading-in-everyday-lifetrader lifecycle <GOOGLEDRIVE id="0B9DVxYA-85_4RlRQenh2aGF4aWs" url="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9DVxYA-85_4RlRQenh2aGF4aWs/...
by tradelink
November 12th, 2014, 5:06 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform + VS Pro now free for individuals
Replies: 35
Views: 7719

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform + VS Pro now free for individuals

MIT license is a nice touch.This is one of those things that even if they had wanted to do it before, steve ballmer and bill g couldn't have pulled it off after all the stuff they said about linux.
by tradelink
March 5th, 2014, 4:41 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: What does ONE line of code cost to create?
Replies: 38
Views: 9179

What does ONE line of code cost to create?

<t>On an individual project you control figuring out the cost of a given line of code should be easy, just add up all the costs labor and otherwise and divide by the lines of code. Your accountant can help you determine your total costs.This isn't going to tell you much about a future project nor ot...
by tradelink
March 4th, 2014, 5:19 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: What does ONE line of code cost to create?
Replies: 38
Views: 9179

What does ONE line of code cost to create?

oh, sorry we don't have anything to do with ohloh... they just provide COCOMO estimates and other stats for many OSS projects.incidentally background appears white for me, maybe it's your browser settings or an extension or something.
by tradelink
March 4th, 2014, 4:28 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: What does ONE line of code cost to create?
Replies: 38
Views: 9179

What does ONE line of code cost to create?

"The site's grey background makes the text a bit difficult to read. No offence."@Cuchulainn No offense taken, although not sure which site you are referring to.
by tradelink
March 3rd, 2014, 5:04 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: What does ONE line of code cost to create?
Replies: 38
Views: 9179

What does ONE line of code cost to create?

<r>There are LOTS of studies out there on this, somebody else mentioned COCOMO. the OHLOH site provides estimates for the reproduction costs of various open source projects, using cocomo 81 methodology :<URL url="http://www.ohloh.net/p/tradelink/estimated_costthe">http://www.ohloh.net/p/tradelink/es...
by tradelink
February 11th, 2014, 8:35 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: why are vix futures in contango?
Replies: 21
Views: 12132

why are vix futures in contango?

<t>I think dave's explanation and alan's first explanation are best.As alan alludes there are a lot of guaranteed return and other similiar institutional products that require insurance to construct the product.If you know somebody requires something, this is free money. so you pay spot or more to a...
by tradelink
August 28th, 2013, 5:50 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Open Source Products versus Commercial Software Products
Replies: 32
Views: 10287

Open Source Products versus Commercial Software Products

<t>it just depends on whether you have an actual competitive advantage and where your competitive advantage actually is. (this for many people/firms is a problem even before considering open source)it's a similiar proposition for a biz to outsourcing, whether and where to use open source and whether...
by tradelink
August 27th, 2013, 7:28 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Open Source Products versus Commercial Software Products
Replies: 32
Views: 10287

Open Source Products versus Commercial Software Products

<r>my hypothesis is that the poster hasn't read cathedral and the bazar.chances are you posted this question using chrome or firefox. if you believe your hypothesis you should switch browsers.RHT is an open source company and has 10billion market cap. android is an open source project but generates ...
by tradelink
August 23rd, 2013, 10:37 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: OpenGamma - avoid it
Replies: 33
Views: 17364

OpenGamma - avoid it

my mother still says that. the OP's original point about apache and GNU oss projects being great is because lots of people *did* look the proverbial gift horse in the mouth (and fixed the horse). to your defense not everyone gets this.
by tradelink
August 22nd, 2013, 6:49 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: OpenGamma - avoid it
Replies: 33
Views: 17364

OpenGamma - avoid it

never bet big if you're conflicted.
by tradelink
August 21st, 2013, 9:12 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: OpenGamma - avoid it
Replies: 33
Views: 17364

OpenGamma - avoid it

<t>two points... this is odd given they raised $12m to build open gamma.however it somewhat explains why tradelink.org has more downloads than opengamma and marketcetera put together... cause it was built by actual traders and coders not VCs.tradelink core has no UI and thousands of matched unit tes...
by tradelink
August 14th, 2013, 9:08 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: How do Quants develop Software?
Replies: 7
Views: 8258

How do Quants develop Software?

groups i work with most closely use glean and tradelink since it you can explore ideas visually w/out coding, dump code to run on tradelink (open source) or customize... and dump data to r/excel/etc.
by tradelink
August 14th, 2013, 9:01 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: How do Quants develop Software?
Replies: 7
Views: 8258

How do Quants develop Software?

groups i work with most closely use glean and tradelink since it you can explore ideas visually w/out coding, dump code to run on tradelink (open source) or customize... and dump data to r/excel/etc.
by tradelink
April 30th, 2013, 4:55 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Dynamic stop loss question
Replies: 3
Views: 8887

Dynamic stop loss question

yeah, trailing stops are so named because they trail the current market price. for the details of your specific trailing stop, talk to your broker. if you need something different what they offer you can always use something open source like tradelink.org to custom a trailing stop