Alternative to Tradestation

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Quote from Beebers:

I have a real hard time programming .... and this influenced my decision on which alternative to seek after all the aggrevation with TS.
For a quick side by side comparison of coding examples look at an S & C magazine and their coding. Esignal will go three pages long while others are just a few lines long for a particular code.
I now use Neoticker - which is almost too much for me, but the possibilities in it are endless. (and you have a choice of several programming languages - so I start with the easy ones and then work myself up to a more difficult one).

I wish I had spent some effort learning C# a few years back... It should be a lot more capable than EasyLanguage.
But hell I am not complaining... I am getting things done, and that is important.

 

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Quote from fundjunkie:

I'm a C# coder but am not familiar with Tradelink. How long has it been around? What are the differentiating objectives of the project that might make it appeal to someone like me?

The most important aspect of a trading platform is it's multithreading model. Does access to each symbol's data get a separate thread ? Does each strategy use a separate thread ? Threading in realtime apps is mucho important.
If you don't understand how the thread model works, you are hosed. If it isn't documented....I'd say you're dead.