I have found several previous threads on this topic and am aware of tradelink, marketcetera et al.I am going to start another which is:- written in c++- open-source with no bureaucratic schlepping to actually get the product- can compile and run on solaris, osx, windows, linux without significant effort- may be run with or without a guiWould any one be interested in collaborating on this?

I would be interested in the collaborating.

It seems interesting, can I get more information? (even in pm)

The purpose of the project is to provide a framework for automated strategy development, functionally similar to TradeLink, but strictly cross-platform and not based on any proprietary technologies (C#, Java, .Net etc).The user of the software will be able to develop trading agents in C++ using a high-level API, and execute through a retail brokerage.A comprehensive review of existing software is available here.Let's start by examining this existing work. We'll define goals and boundaries that give a high-level view of the project.This is the project planning / feasibility phase of the systems development life-cycle. I would like to carry this out publicly so as to solicit peer scrutiny at every stage.

hey guys... you may want to consider joining tradelink, as .net is based on open standards.tradelink should run on mono, which is the open source version of .nethttp://www.mono-project.com/Main_PageDo what you want, but it will be orders of magnitude less work to build off what already exists rather than starting from scratch. here is some work an existing user was doing in this area if you want to build on this :http://code.google.com/p/tradelink/issu ... =1023every other requirement you mention tradelink already does.

I've spent many hours investigating the use of tradelink and mono.My conclusion is that this pairing cannot meet the requirement:Quote- can compile and run on solaris, osx, windows, linux without significant effort.There is a form of dll-hell due to library version dependencies which is likely to persist for some time.

Have you decided to continue?

there are now a number of confirmed users running tradelink using mono on linux.

You can trystocksharp.comand migrate it to Mono framework, if needs to run on UNIX - like OS. Fluent Russian are required to read the site .