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I've found it to be just fine. It's not the most user-friendly platform in the world, but it's rock-solid in terms of execution. Don't even think about using it for charts or analytics--it's terrible in those areas. FWIW, I use it for equities and futures (both globally). Good luck.

Droskill, WLD isn't tied to any broker, so you can hook it up to any execution platform you want. Wealth-Lab Pro is the one given to US/Canadian (active trader) customers of Fidelity. I'm in the US as well, but getting around their requirements is easy. I've been playing around with the...

I totally understand how the process of building a business works and how you sacrifice certain priorities for others. I also understand that a current customer with real trades on the line should receive priority over prospective customers. A simple email (even a canned one) stating exactly...

This is so perfectly stated. I think that the traders with a lot of programming experience really enjoy rolling their own. If I knew programming better, I'd probably do the same. I'll never be as good a programmer as those who built RE, QD, WLD, etc., so why should I even try?

You make some good points here. I guess this is one of those areas that would require some consulting by the makers of RE. It would be nice if RE 1.0 had these portfolio-level features. I guess we have to wait until 2.0. It was nice to see these features very clearly marked/defined in QD...

Valdis, Thanks for the reply. It's a bit clearer to me now. After reading Derman's "My Life as a Quant," I realize that I am no quant. I have no doubt that QD being a "bunch of modules thrown together" wouldn't affect my strategy. As for the porn ads, I can say that I've never seen one...

WLD does in fact support futures. Fidelity does not in its Wealth-Lab Pro (from what I've heard). I've said it before, and I'll say it again: WLD is an amazing product. It's easy to use (this coming from a person who just recently learned to program "Hello, World"), it has loads of...

Valdis, I don't mean to bash your product or your company. In fact, I think QD appears to be a great product. My point in mentioning the porno ads in your message forum (along with unanswered questions) is to show that you guys just don't provide the best support (at least right now). I'm...

Great points...I agree: hate monthly subscription fees...and I can't comprehend why anyone would use TradeBolt, etc. rather than plugging in to IB or REDIPlus directly. An open source initiative would be great...I guess that's how QD started out. I think the market for *robust* ATS platforms...

Even with my very limited programming skills, I can see that you are right about QD being more advanced than RE. What I've read on Willmott and Nuclear Phynance, though, is that QD isn't all that great from a true quant perspective, as it's just a bunch of modules thrown together. Keep in mind...

Richard, How many securities do you have in your watch list for your auto-trading with WL? I happen to think that Wealth-Lab Developer is a marvel of a product...it's easy to use; it's *somewhat* robust; it has *nearly* all the features I could ever want; the online forum is generally...

droskill, Thanks for the reply. Your posts have been helpful and insightful. Can you please elaborate on what RE can't currently do for you? I admit that my needs are quite plain vanilla. That may change at some point, though (particularly as I'm now learning to program in C#), so I'd...

I just wanted to write a short conclusion for anyone interested in this head-to-head comparison. I have found RightEdge to be every bit as useable and robust as QuantDeveloper. And with RE (soon to be released) costing around 10% of QD, RE is the obvious choice here. I was very seriously...

Thanks! You're right in that there are many more parameters, but it sounds like the popular products can handle them. I was afraid they could handle only the most basic (e.g., MACD crosses signal). I'm going to give that a shot. If I run into any problems, I will email or call you guys at...

Thanks for the reply. So you're saying that I can, for instance, have as one of the parameters of my "establish position" trigger "buy only if these particular moving averages are sloped up" with drag and drop functionality? If I'm going to spend time learning a language to backtest various...

I have painstakingly backtested a trading strategy--manually!--going back many years with about 100 charts (various stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities). With its success, I would now like to backtest it thoroughly going back many decades with thousands of securities. My question is...

That's an excellent point! I guess then the question is, Does QD offer enough extra features to justify the extra cost? If not, is RE flexible enough to be programmed to do all that QD can? At the end of the day, I want the best platform--preferably together with the firm that will provide...

This is one time I'd be very happy to be wrong. Perhaps I dealt with a grumpy lacky or something. Anyway, as I said, I just want the best platform that can do everything I need. Other than the true C# programmers, how long has it taken most of you to really learn how to use QuantDeveloper...

I'm just getting started with both right now, so any opinion I offer would be preliminary, to say the least. From what I hear, the final version of RightEdge will run around $600--a little over 10% the cost of QuantDeveloper. I'll pay for QD, though, if it can handle my needs and RE cannot...

Has anyone with serious knowledge of C# compared RightEdge Systems (www.rightedgesystems.com) to QuantDeveloper (www.smartquant.com)? Both appear to be extremely robust and flexible platforms for developing, backtesting, and automating a trading system. I'm currently learning C# so that I...