If you give me 10mio $, I will be able to start a fund with 3 other partners. We have a strategy which will return 15% annually ...
Spare a dime here : )
I guess the OP better find a very good programmer with good IT skills and propose a partnership, in the long run it is probably the only way to have a serious business ...
If you just browse the page until
http://championship.mql5.com/2011/en/users/index/page8
You will see that more than half are in negative equity (this probably does not even count commissions, maybe I am wrong on this one as I did not read the rules).
I think I will try to enter this...
Like in any trading competition, you probably to take insane risks to have a chance to win and you probably have to overfit. If you were to run 1000 strategies, you are bound to find a few ones which will show high returns over a sample period.
Just to make sure the strategies have a real...
I tried Amibroker and I am not a huge fan of their language and I had issues when trying to important minute data from eSignal into Amibroker. The support is quasi non existent as well.
OpenQuant looks more like my cup of tea ... First of all, it uses a real language C# (which is not too bad...
I am currently working on an interest rates swaps desk mostly developing/implementing models and tools using C#/C++.
I am looking to move forward and I think algorithmic trading would be a nice area for me as I have some quite strong IT skills, some decent mathematical knowledge about...