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I'll check it out. Thank you! Has anyone else in here used Alpaca?

terr: Thank you for the insight and offer to help. I might just take you up on it. To answer: 1 - I hope so 2 - I have TD which does have an API, but poking around on the web it seems it cannot be fully automated, but I could have read wrong or outdated info. Tradestation that I am considering...

I understand your thoughts, but buying 1-2 shares of 3000 different stocks adds up to a substantial amount of money, as they could be any dollar amount really and not just $1 stocks. I think I read that buying one share of each available stock in the market now would cost $100K or something like...

I would love to properly backtest this as a 'live' real time system, but there is no way that I can think. I am hoping that there is a way to do forward paper testing with live data, that I can use for the next 6 months or year. But I do not know if any platform will allow paper trading in the...

Thank you all for all your inputs. It is all very helpful. By the way, I am hoping that my brother will just help me for the fun of it. He retired and doesnt do much anymore, so he has the time :-). And just in case its works, then he can share the riches along with me lol.... He programs in C...

Thank you for responding. Dont laugh, but back testing using EOD data for all stocks since 1970ish timeframe. Lots and lots of spreadsheets and number crunching for patterns etc. But that's the other thing. I also want to be able to test forward my strategy while saving the funds to be able to...

Ok, so this is my first post here. You guys seem very knowledgeable and I figure you might be able to help me with my idea and the best and most efficient way to implement it. Let me preface this with, yes, I understand the inherent risk and the fact that the past does not predict the future...