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IB inactivity fee is pretty minimal - $10 if I remember correctly for accounts of your size - it's $20 for accounts less than $2k.

Nothing for Scottrade. You could switch to Interactive Brokers and then there are a number of free or close to free solutions.

Do you need to test single securities or a portfolio of securities?

There is just about nothing for the Mac - it's sad but that's the way it is.

Took a look at Seer - definitely interesting for those looking for backtesting software. Very similar, in approach, to QuantDeveloper by Smartquant, with a little bit of TradersStudio thrown in. Definitely could get expensive at $50-$100 a month, but if you're looking to get into backtesting...

I tend to agree about TradeStation - although I found a nice add-on that allows portfolio-level testing. http://www.tsresearch.com/software/...view/portfolio/ It does require some work to integrate with an existing strategies but it is an option for those of you who want to use TS - and it...

Interesting - can you be more specific about the issues you were having?

Well, you've got an odd collection of stuff there. Tradestation - strategy building, backtesting (not at a portfolio level), Trade-Ideas - pattern recognition, alerts, Tradebolt/Strategyrunner - automation services for order routing. What are you looking for?

I think they don't want to have to support people downloading demos - which I can somewhat understand. Most offer a 30 day money-back guarantee but Tradecision, reading their policy, definitely made me feel a bit queezy about handing over the money - I wasn't sure I'd see it again. Again, they...

I think this might be what you're looking for: http://www.tsresearch.com/software/portfolio/portfolio_analyzer/overview/portfolio/ Rina is really expensive from all I've heard. Hope this helps!

IQ seems to offer: - Simple optimization techniques - not clear whether it uses genetic algorithms. - Backtesting: seems to offer it for an individual strategy/instrument. I didn't see any portfolio level materials. They do say in "key benefits" that they have "Money management tools to...

I own TradersStudio as well - it's a good tool for backtesting. It is particularly powerful if you want to test multiple strategies at the same time. It has the most sophisticated money management, although it also takes more work to get it there. It is, first and foremost, a programming...

Most NN companies will tell you that NN solutions are within 10% of each other - meaning that they are close. Of bigger impact is the inputs you choose to put into the NN - that will have a much bigger effect than the NN itself. That said, some NNs do have advantages over other IMO - those...

Well Neural Networks discover solutions to problems more quickly than brute force methods. Genetic Algorithms are a better approach for optimization as they will scale better as you add more indicators/parameters. NN are more useful for modeling something like a stock chart to put together an...

Well, just about any software that uses a genetic algorithm for optimization. Using GA improves speed radically, and it does so as the number of parameter (indicators) rises.

Hmmmm....what software are you looking at currently?

Can you be more specific? What features are you looking for? It will be easier to provide help if you give us a little more detail of what you're looking for.

If I remember correctly MBTrading.com offers something very similar. I know they offer something called 1.5 level quotes for free.

Hmmmm...I'm having an issue with my computer at the moment so I can't tell you off the top of my head. Ok - picked up the manual, and for every session you can define the properties of the timeframe. So you can define how many bars to look back in the data, and the frequency of the data. So...

I don't use TradersStudio for intraday trading, but there is little reason to think it would be any better or worse than using it for daily trading. It's really a question, imho, of finding good data. Provided you have a good source for data that can give you enough data points for system...