Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring > > and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions > > or experiences are welcome. > Good luck. I don't envy you and I (attempt to) do this for a living at home... Exactly what I (feared) suspected.... > TTBOMK there are no _real_ trading platforms available publicly > specifically for Linux. Probably your best bet is to look at the stuff > developed with R which is quite interesting but has a very high > learning curve. (VERY HIGH) These packages are all part of the > 'TradeAnalytics' project in R. > FinancialInstrument > RTAQ > blotter > quantstrat > I've used quantstrat more than the others, and have played with > blotter a bit. As this is all R-based it works in Linux AFAIK. That > said I do everything in Windows VMs running in Virtualbox myself and > just use Windows software, including the above packages running in a > Windows R-gui. Hello Mark, I think I'll put the R stuff as research interest on a separate machine to evaluate... I'm Looking for some guidance on this (VM) subject, related to online stock trading. Should I set up a machine on a hardened system? SeLinux? Other ideas like a transparent bride with some specific application filtering? Should I setup a specific application firewall between the VM system and the outside net? A generic security (architectural) approach is of keen interest to me (reading references?). Windows security for me is often troublesome; so specific (private?) suggestions are also of keen interest to me. paranoid predilection, James
