Delayed Robot Signals for Today

[Harry]

FYI - I see Pascal updated the IWM robot, please note the strength of todays signal is missing.

[Pascal]

FYI - I see Pascal updated the IWM robot, please note the strength of todays signal is missing.

It is corrected. Thanks!

Pascal

[TraderD]

It is corrected. Thanks!

Pascal

Out of curiosity, how long does it take, in compute time, to generate the daily signal(s)?

Trader D

[Pascal]

Out of curiosity, how long does it take, in compute time, to generate the daily signal(s)?

Trader D

The robots signals are the final step of a night long process over three computers.


Pascal

[TraderD]

The robots signals are the final step of a night long process over three computers.


Pascal

Thanks, Pascal. That sounds like a lot of calculations. Is shortening the calculation time the main challenge in generating real-time signals?

[Pascal]

Thanks, Pascal. That sounds like a lot of calculations. Is shortening the calculation time the main challenge in generating real-time signals?

We need to change the technology.
I am now using Visual Basic on Excel.
The real-time system will use a distributed Java processing technology that executes incremental calculations from different computers located on the net. Basically what we call "cloud computing" technology.
The algo themselves stay the same.

Pascal

[TraderD]

We need to change the technology.
I am now using Visual Basic on Excel.
The real-time system will use a distributed Java processing technology that executes incremental calculations from different computers located on the net. Basically what we call "cloud computing" technology.
The algo themselves stay the same.

Pascal

Thanks, that explains it. Cloud processing is one approach to speed up calculations of a distributable algorithm. Another approach is to use a GPU card (NVidia or ATI) that contains hundreds of processors. Programming is done under a somewhat "different" development paradigm but becoming popular nevertheless (e.g. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home_new.html). GPUs are also now available on the cloud tho they're rather cheap to own.

Trader D

[Pascal]

However nice it will be to have near real-time signals, I would like to remind everyone that the whole EV web site and the Robots are today based on old 2001 Excel processing.

To me, this means that "thinking straight" is still more important than "running fast".
Having both would not hurt though.



Pascal

[admin]

>To me, this means that "thinking straight" is still more important than "running fast".

Absolutely, and this aspect makes all the difference in the world.