I am a C# programmer also...I use NT... I look at SQ but it support sucks. With NT you can do all of your dev. and get good support at no cost I've written tick by tick programs that comm. with NT without any problem.
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I have a very active NinjaTrader based Blackbox. I am currently with IB. I am going to lease a seat at the CBOT.
I am considering Advantage for Server hosting or T1 direct link. I assume I can get from them timely data to drive my systems without having to go directly to the...
NT has excellent response time, usally within minutes of submission. I look at both products ....in my OP considering it layout and poor support it would be foolish to purchase your product over NT or any other
I use NT with IB and it works OK...however you can not get historical tick data updates..I had to write a system using IB's API to collect historical tick data.
In the search for a new trading platform I've studied and tested certain aspects of NT. Overall Iâm impressed. However, there are a couple of areaâs that I have concerns. One, being the inability of the system to run 24/5.5 without attendance. (In my case, its has to be manually restarted...
Strigman's book is great, The Encyclopenia of Trading Strategies by Katz and McCorwick is even better. However, think GA and walk forward Optimization.:cool:
I'm trying NT on my IB paper account also. I've read all of their documentation and it seems very interesting. It has the capibility of walk forward optimization and from what I understand there is a GA optimizer available from the user group.
BackTesting?? Try walking forward testing at a company with and excellant paper trading system like IB. BackTesting in most cases is not as effective as Walking Forward Optimization and testing.
The quality is usally good, however, I am selective base on my experience as a programmer. I use Visio to modulize the coding and spread it accross multiple coder. Rentaacoder has a non disclosure agreement, however I don't trust such aggreements.
I am a old programmer that don't wqnt to program any more so I break my system up into multple part and use http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/default.asp