Hello all,

I'm having an issue with Zenfire's live feed on the 6E (6/13). The issue is that the live feed appears to be showing a price which is about 8 ticks higher than the actual market price.

I know the live price is incorrect because I can briefly see the actual market price when I reload the chart. Upon reloading the chart, the historical prices are shown accurately so this is just an issue with the last price shown by the live feed.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on resolving this issue.

Noticed a lot votes for Zen-Fire... Unfortunately, I think it's official that Zen-Fire will cease to exist soon, direct from Jonathan Walden. ( Forums - Rithmic Announces Nonrenewal of Zen-Fire Use)

I called this prediction correctly before, 5 months ago:
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Rithmic vs Zenfire I think the possibilities are limited: 1. They got sick of paying Rithmic, or 2. They are sick of paying Rithmic and are trying to phase them out and so moved their developers on to a new project, or 3. They had a couple of lead developers who were …

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Rithmic vs Zenfire Azrael Caveat: Zen-Fire's development team vanished and they are incredibly opaque, so I'm just making an educated guess here. The data quality should be the same. Same software, same incoming feed from exchange. You should also see differences …

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Zenfire RT & Historical Discrepancies? Not exactly on-topic, but the last I've touched Zen-Fire, I found out that their problems will never be fixed, because they've stopped all development on Zen-Fire. I don't actually know why - maybe their lead developer (Matt Griswold?) moved …

I think the possibilities are limited:

1. They got sick of paying Rithmic, or

2. They are sick of paying Rithmic and are trying to phase them out and so moved their developers on to a new project, or

3. They had a couple of lead developers who were the only ones who understood how everything worked, and these guys left without leaving something maintainable - deceased, fell out, spun off etc.

(1) is unlikely to be true, since it still works. (2) is still rather unlikely, since they should have at least still have the expertise to support the API users. (3) is probably most likely. I'm not associated with the firm so I don't think it's ethical for me to speculate about their private matters, but I do feel the customers should clarify with the firm directly if it affects their trading.

@Azrael

Caveat: Zen-Fire's development team vanished and they are incredibly opaque, so I'm just making an educated guess here.

The data quality should be the same. Same software, same incoming feed from exchange. You should also see differences in data if you made comparisons whether on the same machine with the two feeds or on separate machines not necessarily owned by you - this difference in data will be due to randomness of dropped packets.

P.S.: I used to live in Singapore, too. PM me if there's anything I can do to help - I'm not necessarily qualified but I run a trading firm, if that makes me an authority on the matter.

Not exactly on-topic, but the last I've touched Zen-Fire, I found out that their problems will never be fixed, because they've stopped all development on Zen-Fire. I don't actually know why - maybe their lead developer (Matt Griswold?) moved to a different company and they didn't have things set up for business continuity.

A side effect of this is that Zen-Fire is riddled with bullet holes and bugs: there's a huge security vulnerability that I'm not going to describe in public, the C++ examples don't compile, there's no proper API call to query for particular instrument(s), the documentation is incomplete. So MC/NT/Sierra etc. all contain the same security vulnerabilities thanks to Zen-Fire.

@artemiso,

I don't know what the motives are to make such allegations. please provide some evidence.

in the meantime I'm pretty confident zen-fire is far from going out of business. for me the rithmic news is more positive than negative.

I spoke with Eliot at Mirus Futures about this. More information will be forthcoming shortly from Mirus, but the bottom line is Silvester17 is right - it's really positive news not negative. It seems Rithmic is just upset about losing their customer and posted about it in such a fashion to cause drama, in my opinion.

Mike

I don't want to go too much in detail. zen-fire disconnected the rithmic risk platform and developed their own platform. so much for "they've stopped all development on Zen-Fire"

It seems Rithmic is just upset about losing their customer and posted about it in such a fashion to cause drama, in my opinion. Mike