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Well for a comparsion, the best automated strategy backtested over 5 years for the ES, 1 contract at a time, I have come up with would have profited $105,000 over the 5 year period so that is, around 21K a year.... Forward testing the numbers hold up, has a few wild draw downs that makes the...

Toe, Thanks for your input. This may very well be the best Idea to go with. Should be pretty safe from being sued if the product only works on simulation accounts, and if the demand is great enough in the future and I feel safe from excessive liabilities I could always open it up for real...

I have developed strategies before that have proven to be successful, these strategies were developed using 1 minute bars, which I could then change into 5 minute bars, 10 minute.. whatever was needed for the strategy... that sort of data was easy to come by. My newest strategies are based...

no have not discussed this with legal counsel yet, although brief google searches and advice from friends and family lead me to believe it could be a very painfull road if someone were to lose a substantial amount of money whether it be their own fault, or even due to a software glitch i...

I may be a failed discretionary trader, but programming is and always has been my main passion/career. There is nothing I cannot program. Posters here make it out to look like I have never written a successful backtesting/ATS before, but I have. This is not my first trading platform I have...

jimmy, Why would I need to prove if I have been successful at either discretionary or automated trading to create a trading platform? My success in trading should have NO baring on whether or not I can produce a good trading platform. I am not giving away my bots or my automated strategies...

jimmy, Basically as you noted, I have a bot that wins over the long run, but I cant handle the draw downs. So, I gave discretionary trading a shot, and I proved to myself I do not have the diciplin to trade that style. So here I am, returning to what I KNOW I am good at. While discretionary...

Alan, Well.. here is the thing I simply wanted to provide my platform to others because I thought it would help..... As for as if people dont trust my software and dont use it that is COMPLETLY fine by me. I am not trying to make money off of it, simply trying to provide what I feel is a good...

This new platform I have not used for a long period reliabilty, my previous system was VERY reliable, but the 2 are nothing alike.... My intention was never for somoene to guiniea pig this with their money, instead I woudl highly recommend using interactive brokers simulation account... still...

Trader_Henry, yes in fact it will support many different bar types. At the moment it currently supports, Tick, and range bars, and time based bars, volume is next on the list.

Assuming I do continue with this project, does anyone know the cheapest place to get historical TICK data on futures? I already have 1 minute historical data, but looking to get a good bit of tick by tick data.... Any sugestions?

Wayne, Is the code in say medved quote tracker open source? No, its hidden.... what about the free charting program I was using the other day IB charts... that source code is not open either... and countless others... Bracket trader..... nope not open either. Yes you can REALLY trust code...

Ursa, I see there is a LOT of interest in an open source project. However, their are coding methods, and some unique ways I have handled things that I do not want released that are present in the core of the platform. There are also "some" new ways doing things in respect to trading that I...

JCraig, Jython is deffinetly a possibility as well...... may support multipe scripting languages, so end user can determine what sort of syntax they are more comfortable with. OddTrader, One of the reasons of making the scripting language so powerful, is so that the whole project can...

I believe I have decided how I will do the scripting language to provide MAX power and make the code somewhat "open". I will use beanShell, which is basically a scripting language for java. So that means trading scripts will be written in java, however it will be VERY dumbed down and very easy...

oddtrader, I had a similar question in a PM this morning about making the source code open source, this is what I wrote in response "No the source code will not be open source, primarily because there are a lot of my "proprietary" pieces in their as this is my trading platform for...

john99, If I decide to take this route with my trading platform, then we are looking at a couple of weeks before the first beta release. The first release would consist of, rudimentary charting capabilities, some basic back testing, ability to automate strategies, and a very scalled down...

John99, Yes, it will be possible to have trades automated based on indicators such as moving average crossovers and such. In the first couple of beta releases, the number of indicators will be pretty small.....However, if there is any indicator not present yet, indicators can be created...

zzzap, If I understand you correctly, you want to automate a strategy to buy/cover when current bar's high is greater than the high over x min bars, and sell/short when current bar's low is less than the low over x min bars? Simple activities such as this will deffinetly be possible and...

I have recently began working on a new backtesting/automated trading system for use with interactive brokers. My previous platform, I did not design flexible enough to backtest/trade some of my new ideas. So, I started programming a new platform. While adding some new features the other day I...