Recent content by bigfurrymonster

I highly recommend demo trading to all my friends who want to start trading. Why the rush to start trading? The market won't disappear next year. I tell them if you can't make money on demo, how do you expect to make money on a live account! If I gave you a plane and told you to that you can...

Big Investment banks and major Hedge Funds develop their own trading platforms from scratch. They have a bunch of super smart quants who specialize in developping strategies. They use tools like R / Matlab to do stat modelling. They usually have custom libraries in C++/C#/Python to allow...

Building a High Frequency ATS: use Software package or code everything myself Hi, I am planning on creating an automated scalping system for Forex. I have programming experience (C++/Python) and extensive experience in manual Forex scalping. My goal is to be able to very accurately backtest...