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Thanks for your suggestions. will keep this in mind. any specific you talking about?

yes, we are able to handle these costs. now comes down to my original question of any experiences with various softwares. I am planning to get details of some of the famous softwares and meet them in person to find out which one suits most of my needs. any suggestions are appreciated

hi Bob, my understanding is that your oms needs to be certified with each prime broker that you use and once the certification is done for each product its good to go. there is some time involved in certification and hence i was looking for one which already hash relationships with some main...

we always have a choice to either develop our own OMS (order management system) or buy off the shelf. Both has it's pros and cons. Due to limited resources and limits time to go live, lot of people decide to buy off the shelf products in the beginning. At an early stages, I am looking to buy...

I am not sure if Quantopian has api for DB management. I think NinjaTrader has something with Database. You should post quantopian specific questions on their forum and i believe you will get more responses. In my opinion (i am from tech backgroun), hooking up an RDBMS is pretty simple and...

I am sure you will find this data in tutorials provided by the framework. Generally if you build something from scratch ("body") will be a big task, but there are lot of frameworks who do all these things for you. You still need to understand the api these frameworks provide. (Which functions...

you will not learn coding from forums.. get the books.. and implement those examples. i think the quantopian examples and very explanatory and good place to start.

Hi Andrianov I am coding with my experience so I know what i want to do. In your case you need to learn these skills on your own. I would recommend you to read some good books first such as Active Equity Management bu Zhou and jain. for coding .. i can say that fortunately you dont need super...

I am more inclined towards building my own platform mainly because i would prefer to have full control over how I manage my positions, risk etc. This is something i can manage. Just didn't want to reinvent the wheel for simulation/backtesting. Would be nice to use existing platform for...

Thanks for great response. I have started looking at Quandl data already. Looks like for good quality data , you need to pay. It's a great place to start. I have started looking at the documentation and it looks promising. I am in Asia time. Will look more in detail when I get back home later...

i recently joined this forum and i am totally overwhelmed with the information available here. I came to know about this site when i was searching for information on automated trading. Here is the catch, i know a lot about automated trading (my experience at work) but never traded from home. (I...