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Broker: AMP, ADMIS, Gain, Charles Schwab. Data: CQG, Open-eCry
Trading: Emini ES
Posts: 41 since Jun 2013
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I would like to use a Linux-based platform; I do not want to be associated with Microsoft in any way shape or form, as I am of the opinion that Bill Gates is an extremely dangerous psychopath & a megalomaniac.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
Leave it to an OS discussion to start a flame war.
Personally, I am platform agnostic, but some people tend to get really emotional on the subject. If you cannot trust a Microsoft OS, then you may want to get off the grid altogether.
For OS, it is Windows for me, and I've used all platforms listed. Windows 2000 was the best, lightest, and fastest of any operating system for a long time, but I can't have that any more.
Windows 10 Pro runs all of my platforms just fine and is not bloated, although I do my own builds. If you are buying retail, then you have to deal with that. Live trading, I have a 2 vCPU on Windows 10 VM and CPU utilization runs at about 10-15% (about 11 live algo trading systems).
For those concerned, you can control the updates to Windows 10. As a part of my normal trading week, I will run updates after close of market Friday or open of markets Sunday. Or just delay. If you need details, it is really dead simple...send me a DM.
Having a Mac for Mac's sake and running Parallels....basically running a virtual machine....I could do that on any machine for a lot less than a Mac.
Moving to Python systems at some time in the future will allow me to be platform agnostic for trading. Then I will just run a Windows or Linux server with a pretty front end to watch the robots trade on my behalf, wherever I am.
It's a hodge podge world. For example, say I want to run Windows / NT on a VM in Chicago. I'm choosing Windows because that's what you need to run NT, but for all I know the VM is running on a Linux box.
If only Sierra Chart would exist for linux... Sadly, Linux has too few users for it to be worth compilling and providing support for, so sadly we are all stuck with windows.
Yes, i know VM exists, but it just not worth the hassle if you already have windows.
Use Tastyworks. They have a Linux trading platform. I use Ninjatrader in a VM on Linux.
It is the only thing I use windows for as I feel quite similar.
I’m using Sierra Chart on Mac with Parallels and of course Windows 10. I will be removing Win10 and Parallels for CodeWeavers Crossover to run Sierra Chart. Advantage is not having to install the complete Win10 OS.
