Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 18:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Steve Howe <un_x@juno.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stock Market Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980709175549.1639B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <19980709.224559.5591.1.un_x@juno.com>
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Steve Howe wrote: > are there any ways to use freebsd to monitor > stock market data? I'm getting ready to write something like this for a client. In our case it's commodities data but pretty much the same thing. It's going to end up as real time charting software for an office of commodities brokers with the front end written in Java. We're getting a satellite feed of the data. Goes into a "set top" style box with a serial port spitting out ASCII tick data. Most of the work is probably going to go into summarizing the data into something less than real time which most consumer grade charting software can't handle. We'll supply the daily and hourly summarys to the client's clients. There is what seems to be a psuedo standard file format used by the various charting packages like MetaStock so your client can use pretty much whatever they want on the w95 boxes. The equipment and data come from a company named DTN. They have a "Unix friendly" development kit which I haven't seen yet but from descriptions it's probably no more than docs of the data stream. I'll probably start working on it in a couple of weeks if you want to follow up. Sounds pretty easy at this point, we'll see what real life turns up. :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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