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I've played with NT and CT(cooltrade). CT seems to be the only one of the bunch that is truly fully automated out of the box. With NT (and OQ from what I hear) you'll have to write your own stuff somehow to get them to manage strategies between shutdowns. CT (however it does it...

I've been playing with NT recently evaluating it against OQ which I'll play with more later. So far NTs good points are that: - it's relatively easy to set up and get started, seems well designed in general - it's relatively quick - good charts, lots of built in indicators - free to use...

I'm my experience TD-A gives good fills in general. You can't assume that you will fill just because the price crossed your line for 2 seconds with any broker.

She basically says, "Don't worry because the FED can print as much as it wants to make sure that banks remain solvent." And that is supposed to make us feel better and remove any concerns about the banking system? They take all of the profit when their bets go good and dump the liability...

Netgear: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7061751&st=netgear&lp=8&type=product&cp=1&id=1108125361676 It's a "router/4-port switch/wireless" so you can hook up 4 computers wired and however many wireless. The equivalent Linksys is probably fine too but I've found this...

The password only protects the router from having its settings changed. Once you set a good password you never need to enter it again unless you want to change some router settings. Usually you can just http to: http://192.168.1.1 When you want to configure your router and skip all...

So far it seems that tickdata is the best I've been able to find for tick data but it is very pricey. For minute data the link that someone gave above seems fine and inexpensive. Still looking...

Hi everyone, I'm working on my own backtesting/ATS app (decided not to go with openquant afterall even though it seems very nice for what it does) and I don't want to download gigabytes (terrabytes?) of data if I can just buy it on DVDs. So far I have found...

seriously...first he complains that everyone is 'depressed' and therefore causing a recession and now he says we need to stop being depressed and just accept the recession. A true nut case. The only bright side to all of this is that he says he works in real-estate....

You cannot split ethernet but I assume that you mean that you're splitting the cable so that it goes to your cable box and cable modem. That's fine (assuming that your signal strength is good enough). Basically you want: cable to cable modem -> ethernet cable from modem to router ->...

I've actually decided to give openquant a try before writing it all myself from scratch. I'm sure to run into problems/limitations but if it can get me up and running in a month it's probably worth the time. I can still write one from scratch if openquant doesn't do what I want/need but...

You don't need anything but a router. - make sure the router admin password is set to something secure - make sure the windows firewall is on - make sure your windows install is fairly current with latest patches using windows update - don't run apps from questionable websites That's...

It seems like the answer to this question like most every question is "it depends." :) (So ignoring the fact that the house you live in is generally not an investment...) I don't think we're at the bottom yet. I think bottom is around 2010-2012 depending on Fed intervention. If the...

crisis, What about switching to a different broker like IB? If commissions are killing your profits you can make round trip trades for dollars instead of $20 round trip on TDAmer. Btw did you use their API to communicate with TDAmer and was it a hassle to get it from them or did you just...

Yes I think it's possible on low volume stocks with public stop orders for people to come in and buy/sell on both sides of an equity to temporarily push the price down to hit the stops. At least it seems feasible. Some brokers let you place hidden stops which seems like a good idea (or...

tradesystem: Yes, I'd like to test against everything in NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX (but after being filtered down somewhat probably) Wayne: I'll definitely look into IB and its API. Bespoke: Do you mind saying what broker/api your using and where you're getting your historical/real-time data...

Hi bespoke, I am a professional programmer so I can write this sort of thing from the ground up, but like you say, is it worth the time? From what I've been able to learn so far Wealth-Lab, Amibroker, OpenQuant, etc. all kind of do the same thing - act as a framework where you can use the...

Has anyone tried the Ameritrade API? Supposedly they give access to trading, streaming data (level 1, 2, news...), historical data, etc. Seems like a really nice api to build on. Thanks, -S

Hi everyone, Love this site. I've been lurking on/off for a while now and now am reading to jump into the automated trading arena. The main problem I'm facing at the moment is not having a great picture on the pros/cons of all the various trading programs/brokers/etc. There seem to be so...