Recent content by borland

StrategyDesk can send email trade alerts. Maybe you could program the MS Outlook email program (or some other email program) to relay StrategyDesk trade alerts to IB for the trade. Your trade size must be low. TDA actually can be a lower cost broker, as there are no data charges for the...

To clearify I actually meant to say "I have coded my trade logic to 'buy the open' by looking back at the prior bar". So, there are no trade alert settings for 'buy the open' in StrategyDesk. StrategyDesk only has this option in the backtester.

With backtesting, what you want to see is results that are 'representive' of forward testing or actual trading. There are many factors that can change actual results. But a representative sample is all you need, as future results are never predictable. All you can hope for is trade...

With backtesting, what you want to see is results that are 'representive' of forward testing or actual trading. There are many factors that can change actual results. But a representative sample is all you need, as future results are never predictable. All you can hope for is trade...

I've been automated trading with StrategyDesk for almost three years. It's probably the easiest automated trading platform for someone to get started trading equities or ETFs. Like every platform, you can't develop a good trading system with StrategyDesk in a few hour, it take months of...

Yes, good point, some quote functions, like the Bid do not work in backtesting. Also, some System functions do not work in backtesting. Hour, Minute, Second do not work; so instead use Bar[Hour, 5], Bar[Minute,5], and Bar[Second,5]. Here’s my code for converting the daily stochastic...

I use StrategyDesk. My backtesting results are consistant with my forward testing and actual trading. However for me, it takes some work. My trade strategy is in multiple timeframes (5m, 60m, and Daily). This presents a cause for gross errors, since StrategyDesk uses closing bar prices in...