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    Which platform is better? Takion or DAS Pro?

    I've used all, and 3/4 the most and 5 more recently. Everybody seems to have very high opinions of takion. It's created by the same guys who created andover/anvil (before it was bought by sungard and then by LS before they shut it down). I think lightspeed is better than many of these...
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    Do you use R for backtesting?

    there are people who do and packages for this (search r seek for quant/finance/etc), although for the most part they trade using daily data. for larger volume stuff for the most part you're better off doing analysis of backtesting results or signals in R.
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    Less Expensive Historical Data

    you could look at using qcollector, which i believe automates esignal data exporting. might also check out iqfeed they have faster more flexible feed than esignal at comparable prices.
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    current Lightspeed API users

    Sorry you took this the wrong way. I just find it humorous when one little piggy wants to reinvent the wheel. I'm used to little piggys going to market, but maybe the piggy bank is empty so the piggy stays home. Not sure I'm a little rusty on my piggy bank stories, but I thought the...
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    Getting back in the game

    my bad there are two somewhat similiar threads going on, i replied to the wrong one.
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    Getting back in the game

    or if you want to be firm neutral any software provider that supports lightspeed... trade ideas, pracplay, hammerstone, etc
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    current Lightspeed API users

    lol you're probably better off using somebody else's extension.
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    Is there a Python equivalent to "TradeLink"?

    you should be able to use iron python with tradelink
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    Takion Baskets Traders

    thanks. ofthomas is a saint!
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    Technical Analysis software

    tradelink
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    IB API getting fills before order confirmations

    the built for a GUI makes somewhat sense, although there are other obscure "features" like this in the api that are not consistent with how TWS behaves (specifically order acks running on multiple machines) that suggests TWS is not built on it's own api (or not entirely).
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    IB API getting fills before order confirmations

    as far as i have ever gathered it's simply that it's easier for them to do this way.
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    IB API getting fills before order confirmations

    actually IB has a known "feature" where you can get a fill ack either before or instead of an order acknowledgement. if the fill happens quickly enough they don't bother sending an order ack, although you can also see fill acks preceed order acks. fyi....tradelink's ib connnector is...
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    Why do you build your own trading system but not using retail trading software?

    from looking at gloriabrown's other posts i see people pointing out that gloria brown is the old ET user j2ee, aka developeralgo on TL aka the communist troll everywhere. adding gloriabrown back to my ignore list...
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    Why do you build your own trading system but not using retail trading software?

    w/tl guessing you're not a contributor and don't give back to the project cause there's a separate area for project contributors to comment and help each other.
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    Why do you build your own trading system but not using retail trading software?

    i see. well if you couldn't figure out an open source system on your own chances are you need to be using a commercial system anyways. so whether it's a proprietary/retail platform or just signing up for the commercial version of open source, that is your choice. in both cases you pay...
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    Why do you build your own trading system but not using retail trading software?

    tradelink has a lot of comments and thousands of unit tests, but yeah with any open source project or coding project in general you will have a learning curve of some sort. unavoidable. though for the most part the point of using an existing platform is that you don't really need to modify...
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    Why do you build your own trading system but not using retail trading software?

    or just use the most popular open source platform out there and reap the benefits of both worlds...
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