It also added the ability for me to run SSE on my netbook when I’m on the road. I’m still not seeing blazing performance, but it’s comfortably fast-I can stay focused on the task at hand, rather than impatiently waiting for an update. With all the heavy computation moved to the Schwab server and no need to download large amounts of data to my machine I experienced a dramatic performance improvement in SSE. Option chain updates in particular were excruciatingly slow. The downloaded version of SSE runs fine on my Vista based machine (see here for an updated review on the functionality), but was very slow on my reasonably powerful (Dual core 3.2 Ghz, 6 Gb RAM) system running Windows 7.
Streetsmart edge in the cloud for mac windows 7#
SSE in the cloud addressed a big performance problem that I’ve been having on my Windows 7 based machine. Instead you run a general purpose Citrix client that connects you to the Schwab server running StreetSmart Edge.
Streetsmart edge in the cloud for mac software#
Schwab’s approach uses Citrix’s session virtualization client to completely avoid putting their stock / trader specific software on your machine. The net result is that browsers are not ideal platforms for implementing advance trading platforms-however this is the approach that Fidelity is betting on with their offering. In addition to the proliferation issue, browsers are not good at adjusting to major differences in the display capabilities of your system-which might range from a small smartphone to a monster multiple monitor setup. The chart below shows my statistics on browsers (click to enlarge). Last month’s visitors to my blog used 21 different browsers to access the site, and on average there were 6 different version of each browser used. However every browser and virtually every version of every browser implements these standards differently.
However, the proliferation of devices and operating systems with all their version permutations makes porting/supporting even a small custom client a daunting task.īrowser based solutions theoretically remove the need for a custom client, being based on internet standards like HTML. In the past client / server software architectures implemented the same basic idea, putting a small custom application on the local computer and moving most of the heavy lifting to a centralized server. The only thing left for your computer to do is to refresh your display information and pass keystrokes / mouse inputs back to the Schwab server. It uses session virtualization to shift the heavy memory and CPU requirements of SSE from your machine to theirs. Faced with the explosion of different computing devices, Schwab has provided a relatively platform insensitive way for Schwab customers to use its flagship StreetSmart Edge ® (SSE) package ( review).
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