Way To Going

Recently I got some messages that worried about the way to go for AIOTrade project, as eneratom posted in sf.net forum. Good question, as I am also thinking about it.

Although the initial motivation for this project is building a platform for myself research on AI on trading, I finally find I've gone a bit far from it, it's now a platform with potential to be All In On trading platform.

I were busy on my own affairs in the passed months, such as moving, looking for job (maintaining an open-source project is a bit hard) etc. When I come back to this project these days, I find I'm still with passion on it. So the svn trunk is being filled with a lot of new committed works which will bring the architecture to a much more beauty and clean: such as a more powerful custom scrollbar to control scrolling/zooming all in one with auto-hide ability, a XOR mouse cursor with better performance etc.

The answer for me now is clear: it will be an All In One Trading platform with AI features.

Let me try to give a road map for the near future:

  • The next release will be with a lot of fine tuning on performance and a neural network module.
  • The next next release will support mins data loading and more data feeds
  • The next, will implement back-testing features.
  • Then, an interface for placing orders to brokers
  • ...

For the contributions, I'm very appreciate for the suggestions, but as I mentioned before, there will not be more developers until the APIs are stable enough, and all the license issues have been considered carefully.

The patches and bug reports are always welcome though.

Comments

1. Ulrich -- 2006-10-22 09:00

Hi dcaoyuan,

it would be great to have better drawing features (and especially "export chart to jpg") in blogtrader.

Best, Ulrich

2. Jagg -- 2006-10-23 09:00

....so will IB API support be in the next release (as eneratom has already done)? This would be really nice!

3. caoyuan -- 2006-10-23 09:00

Hi Ulrich,

Do you mean save the charts to file? it had been implemented for a long time, there is a toolbar button: 'save to image'.

Jagg, I hope to a IB support soon.

4. eneratom -- 2006-10-24 09:00

I am so happy that you are planning to do the backtesting and IB integration. Based on your work, I have finished backtesting, IB integration and ATS . If I want to open my source code, what should I do? Create a new project or create a new AIO ATS Edition? Is there any license issue? My code is based on your early release and only core and indicator are used. I am using mysql database as my quote server and IB market data as my ticker server. I will submit some of defects in your code in the next couple of days after I double check your latest code. I think most of them should have been fixed already.

Best regards,

Eneratom

5. caoyuan -- 2006-10-26 09:00

Hi eneratom,

To implement IB integration, I need to re-think about the database design to separate the high-frequency data (such as 1min) from the daily table. I'll start this work soon, and will apply IB as the use-case.

For the contribution, there may be license issues still need consideration, but I may add a branch as: 'contributions', so anyone can submit their works as a module. If need to patch the core to implement the module, you could send me these patches, I'll review it and integrate to trunk.

Regards, Caoyuan

6. Caoyuan -- 2006-10-26 09:00

And I should mention, the trunk is not compatible with JDK 5.0 now due to a bug in JDK 6.0 beta2, after the bug has been fixed, I'll get the trunk compatible with JDK 5.0 back. That is, to compile the trunk, you'll need JDK 6.0 and NetBeans IDE 6.0