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Hi guys, I am having trouble finding a broker which has an free API and which allows me to trade mini lots or has a min. trade size of not more than 10.000 USD. So far I have only found MB Trading. However, the rollover rates are worse than bad. I f I do not find any other broker, I will...

Hi guys, thank you for your links. Both look interesting. With trading specific, I mean some package, which can compute relevant numbers, to asses the quality of a trading system, like volatility, sharp ratio, etc.... I guess you can do it all yourself, I just wanted to check if there is...

Hi guys, I am looking for a statistics package tailored to the needs of a trader. Is there something out there you know of, preferably in JAVA and open source. I now, that there should be many general statistics libraries, but what about a special one for trading? Best regards, Pete

Thank you for the link! I bookmarked it :-)

Hi, I have looked around to find historical forex data and it seems that you can get them from a lot of places (the quality will be a different issue). However, for serious backtesting I will need of course also the historical interest rates. There are some posts in this forum about...

Hi guys, is anyone of you using Activequant? It looks very good, but it seems poorly documented. Right now I am looking for an open-source Java Trading software. Activequant seems quite capable, however I am not sure if I can make it run, since my programing skills have become a little bit...

Thanks for all the participation. Ok, as far as I understand it now, there is not much support for Python out there (Broker- and software wise) and Python is as a high level language slower than all others (although right now I can't estimate how much speed I will need). I will try Java...

Thank you for all your answers. This probably means that I will have to use Java (C++ is just too much pain for me) I am too unexperienced to deal with wrappers or other exotic stuff. To bad, I liked the idea of using python.

Hi there, I am just starting an automated trading project, struggling right at the beginning:-) I am trying to choose a trading-platform and a language. My first choice as a language would be Python, because it is easiest to learn. Now if I read somewhere that a software has an API...