Recent content by Bogus Exception

punter, Cooltrade (http://cool-trade.com) was designed to do exactly this. There is no programming interface. I can trade long and short at the same time using strategies that use common terms/metrics from pull-downs. You tell it your profit goal, stop-loss, trailing stop loss, profit...

For a rookie, you're pretty sharp! You win! :) pat :) P.S. I guess Ed just doesn't get my sense of humor... :(

From that perspective, VBA is best. It is the language of Office (Excel being the one he'd need it in most), and the leap from VBA to VB.NET is short. pat :) (Original poster comments?)

Learning to program... I have taught many people who never programmed in their lives to program in OO languages. As I sit here I have VS 2008 Pro and Eclipse (for J2EE/EJB3) open on some of the monitors in front of me. I have a large library of books that even after my wife purged is over 500...

@razortade, I think @atticus has it (IBCharts, that is). I use IB as a broker for CoolTrade, so I downloaded it and was impressed. The GUI has a ways to go to be intuitive, but it has all the things I'd need to develop a strategy for an autotrader. Given that people don't go to IB for the...

"Guess I'll have to dust off my C++ textbook from university and refresh my memory. Now, on to finding a broker with a useful API ..." I never said that was necessary. You can use products like cooltrade (cool-trade.com) and just enter in normal rules. Writing complex programs for finicky...

Wait a second. I think the phone must have rang, or I dozed off for a few minutes. When I said above: I really meant to say: I base this on a few quotes I've read, as well as: Which is from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading Now to be fair, there are lots of...

Amen. Way more then 1/2 of all trades in the markets are not done automatically. Those that aren't are done by rooms full of kids at bingo tables watching for limit orders and hitting F8 and F9 all day to make a living. Oh yes, they have their Bloomberg feeds on TVs on the wall, but that...

I'm a little late to this thread, so forgive the reply. I didn't see anyone posting after this post on the topic. I've only been using CT (with Interactive Brokers) for 6 months, so I am not as knowledgeable as those here using it for years. I can tell you that there are a few characteristics...

travis, I use cool-trade and interactive brokers. I do no manual trades. IB uses a /per trade' pricing strategy, so I trade in higher priced stocks. I set a floor of $30, and a ceiling of $70. As CT trades in 100 share multiples, a 100 share trade always ends up costing me $1. You asked...

Has anyone experience with other services? Will one service work for one kind of trading, and another not? I don't have a dedicated line (using Internet), and am a non-professional, but I do anticipate letting the program(s) make the decisions for me. Has anyone succeeded here without real...

maxdama, Thanks for writing. In trying to compare the services, I see that IB has a $10k minimum deposit, $10/month activity fee, but the requirements for the proprietary API say that the TWS client needs to be running in the background on the target machine. It still isn't clear from...

I am writing a program to take data in from stock indicators to make trades. Pretty common, right? But I am also going to add data that I receive from other sources and apply a backprop neural net to the data, self-training. You know, phases of the moon, cost of tea in China, etc. I have all...