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Date/Time: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:42:10 +0000
Post From: BTCUSD-BITFINEX stuck fixed price
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| oyvinds - Posts: 28 |
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I know this is a rant and probably slightly in violation of forum rules, but.. I like free software as much as the next guy, in fact SierraChart is the ONLY piece of commercial software on my computer (I run it on GNU/Linux with WINE). If we want a free software alternative to SierraChart then we need to take a long pause from trading and start writing code ourselves. Commercial software companies do have a place in this world and that's just fine. We can't just go to the store and demand free milk just because. What we are paying for here is mostly the software package and it's features. Right now I am using a totally free web-based chart (since the BFX feed is stuck), if you just want the datafeeds then just use those "User23559". You could even just connect to the Bitfinex socket yourself and get the data - but what is the point WITHOUT A GOOD CHARTING SOFTWARE PACKAGE to display it in? We are PAYING THEM to develop the charting program so that *we* don't have to do it - which we could, right, we could sit down and write code and have a great GNU licensed software package in a few years. But seriously: They demand what. $10 per month or something like that. Would spending hours and hours writing an alternative really be worth it just to save some pocket change? A year of this thing is perhaps what I pay in commission on a single trade. How can you not agree that paying them ten bucks is totally worth it?? c'mon if you can't scrape that together then what on earth do you need their software for anyway? Date Time Of Last Edit: 2014-09-01 18:03:43
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