codec01

This is total bullshit. Pivotal’s stock is $10 now, how the hell does your “back channel source” claim they have more paid customers than Red Hat? At Summit Red Hat had 1000 paid customer references. This guy must be short IBM to put out this kind of crap.

I guess I went that direction because Thinkorswim and most other platforms all developed their own scripting language, but reflecting now I think something simple that everyone knows like Python or JavaScript lib/sdk would be a better approach.

Yes if it included options. Most trading platforms are only stock, futures, or forex. Stocks and the like you have to be 100% directional, options on the other hand give you way more strategies that would be great to be able to automate from a trading platform. Especially if you had the ability to back test strategies and update your models over time, and adjust the option strategies. Or even the ability to combine options with another asset class like stock, futures, or pairs trading.

If someone created a platform like this with its own scripting language and REST api it would be like nothing available today.