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They can be used to back test option strategies?

How does this thing work? Do they have access to intraday historical data of various asset classes?

Is there a review comparing all these software? I read from TradeStation it has 26 years of intraday historical data. What a regret that IB doesn't have intraday historical data. Do the software you mentioned above have these historical data? I think it's not a big problem if it can...

Folks, Just want to make sure: If the current price is $1.4, and I am long on it. And it looks it's going up. And I want to sell at the highest point after $1.5. Let's say it it goes to $1.5, $1.55, $1.6, I don't sell it, until it goes to $1.90. And then it peaks, turns back and...

Thanks guys. I feel one important feature the trading platform should have is: it can point-and-click and zoom in to any part of past historical data. For example, in the IB TWS I am currently using, I can see the price graph yesterday, but I cannot play analytics on yesterday's data...

Sounds interesting. Any success stories?

Thanks guys. I feel one important feature the trading platform should have is: it can point-and-click and zoom in to any part of past historical data. For example, in the IB TWS I am currently using, I can see the price graph yesterday, but I cannot play analytics on yesterday's data.

Immediately when I sold all my MS Feb. 20 $25 call at $1.50, it jumped to $1.90. How regretful I am!

Well said Mark! Thank you so much for pin-pointing out many of my current problems. I am not very familiar with the practical side of trading and I am staring at the market every day and hopefully to learn from experience. I am quite patient and unemotional and not worrying about loss at...

Any more concrete thoughts?

Thanks. But how about extensibility of language and the number of existing signals and the speed of running trades?

What do you mean? Anything that facilitates investigation of trading strategies. Exploration of trading strategies does not limit itself to single instrument, right?

I can do C++ programming by modifying and extending existing works. I can also do Java, C#, etc. However, I don't think it is worth the time to write everything by my own and reinvent the wheels. If TradeStation is good and if it is extensible, and fast, then I should use it, so that I can...

I do know programming. But it's always good to have a testbench so that I can at least know if my ideas are good or not at early stage. It's the testbench that I am looking for... If I start from scratch, after 1 year working on programming, only to find out that my ideas don't work, what to...

Hi all, I have some trade ideas and these trade ideas all need some sort of market scanning, historical data back-testing, plotting, decision making, and execution based on my own models and signals. They need some sort of programming and data analysis. I am looking for the best trading...

Hi all, I have some trade ideas and these trade ideas all need some sort of market scanning, historical data back-testing, plotting, decision making, and execution based on my own models and signals. They need some sort of programming and data analysis. I am looking for the best...

Hi all, Good morning! I am looking for a good mentor for option trading. I need guidance and coaching in the wonder-land of the option trading world. I have been trading options on my own for a few months however I just managed to break even with a small gain. I had small gains, then came...

How did you calculate that out? I'd like to learn. Thanks!

Well, look, we don't have to see it going to $20 before Feb 20. As long as it goes up a fair amount, then I will be above water, right? Of course, I know I am losing both time value and volatility when it is going up slowly, due to the characteristics of a option call.