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What do you think ?
My Regards.
Ben
Sounds like your developers are [might be] core Windows OS stack devs...there may be a conflict of interest there to be considered.Hello bensat,
Our developers say MC hardly will work on anything other than Windows OS.
That hasn't been my experience at all. Most of the shops I've worked at or consulted with have used Windows.In the pro trading business Linux is all about
+1That hasn't been my experience at all. Most of the shops I've worked at or consulted with have used Windows.In the pro trading business Linux is all about
+1That hasn't been my experience at all. Most of the shops I've worked at or consulted with have used Windows.In the pro trading business Linux is all about
As far as using linux for trading is concerned, it is mostly used by high frequency firms. MC is not designed for high frequency trading. People use Windows to trade strategies firing orders every second, and with hold time of few seconds. Even people using TT's autospreader run it on Windows, which is always quoting in the market.
For people who need linux to run MC, I think we need more detailed reasons as to why Multicharts should be supported on linux? What benefits etc.?
Arnie & Andrew Multicharts,Interesting, we have people complaining about useless features requested by MC users but then they talk about MC should go multi platform because their trading are running on Linux and because of MC they are still using Windows.
So basically they would like MC to run on Linux because it fits their view... but they don't appreciate other users request features that fit their views.
Interesting...
I have not seen problems with threaded software (of the order of two dozen threads) in Windows. Linux would be a distraction for MC. If you need more backtest performance, there are ways to get it on Windows. Optimized C++ versions of typical indicators can deliver 20-100X performance of their PL counterparts.
There is one very good reason. If you want to backtest anything you will need more RAM and CPUs than Windows allows. The Computers therefore get cheaper and cheaper. In a few years nearly everyone with a $20k to $50k budget can afford such a machine. But Windows may not support so many CPUs. Thats the bottleneck.
Let me add, even if you buy a high sophisticated trading machine with most expensive CPUs on Windows machine, you will get for the same money a much higher value in speed on a Linux machine today, because you can add a lot more cheap CPUs.