TJ,
Thread hijack!
Could you give a brief view to my original questions...?
Many Thanks
Rob
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Tomasz Janeczko <gro...@...> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> I can confirm that your understanding is correct.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
>
> On 2010-07-23 01:35, Mike wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > First, the number suggested by AB to finish the optimization is near
> > useless. It typically is a gross over estimate of the actual required time.
> > If you want to know the real time, you pretty much just have to let it run.
> >
> > Second, the licencing restricts the number of machines, not the number of
> > cores. There is a trick to leverage multiple cores by a single user, albeit
> > via multiple user accounts on the same machine. I'm assuming that this is
> > in accordance with licencing since the result is effectively the same as
> > running multiple instances under a single user account (except that each
> > instance is now uniquely accessible via COM). Refer to MCO in the file
> > section of this group for an example.
> >
> > So, it is already possible to leverage the full power of a multi core
> > machine without any disregard of licencing.
> >
> > I'm not a lawyer, but to my understanding: Using your licence on a more
> > powerful single machine, that happens to be owned by Amazon and accessed
> > (by one person at a time) over the web, is probably still within the
> > limitations of the licence.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "michaels_musings"<michaels_musings@>
> > wrote:
> >> --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Rob"<sidhartha70@> wrote:
> >>> But Mike, that would never be realistic for time critical real time usage
> >>> such as day trading for example...?
> >> Hi Rob,
> >>
> >> While my resultant question was regarding backtesting, for real time
> >> trading, my thought would be, "Why not use a cloud?"
> >>
> >> Install whatever software you need (IB, or whatever your brokerage
> >> platform is, AB, etc.) onto the cloud and have the cloud be the one
> >> connecting to your broker.
> >>
> >> The connection between the cloud and your broker should be more stable and
> >> less latent than the connection between where you are now and your broker
> >> (Unless you trade from an AT&T data center?).
> >>
> >> The question then becomes, a) are you babysitting your AB to see if it's
> >> entering trades correctly? Or b) are you the one pulling the trigger,
> >> based upon AB recommendations?
> >>
> >> a) works great, b) probably won't.
> >>
> >> Best All,
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> PS: Mike, I understand your statements about licensing restrictions, but
> >> until TJ makes AB multi-core usable they are mute. Anyone who needs an
> >> optimization to happen faster than 62 days (yes that is the actual number
> >> AB said it would take for a four variable optimization on a database with
> >> ~45 stocks, ~100,000 ticks per stock) is going to ignore that clause.
> >> Obviously an Amazon cloud doesn't fulfill "not connected via network," but
> >> sorry, no one cares. At least until the software can get done what needs
> >> to be done in a timely manner....
> >>
> >
> >
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