Quote from WinstonTJ:
i don't think you guys understand what Matlab and R are...
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/class/aos340/spr00/whatismatlab.htm
http://www.r-project.org/about.html
you use these programs to develop and optimize your trades - not to trade. Your trade would be written in a language such as C#, C++, .NET, etc. You would write a small application on your own that would talk to the API of your given broker.
MatLab and R will not trade for you, nor will they talk to your broker's API.
Also, for anyone who has ever used these programs - its like sitting down to a command prompt. You need to know the language and understand how the product works.
Quote from BigSalad:
R has a package for Interactive Brokers, I believe it is called IBROKER (not sure).
Quote from Trader922:
Your quote is incorrect
Quote from WinstonTJ:
Probably saying the same thing different ways. As both of those websites suggest, they offer solutions that allow you to write an application with MatLab, not submit orders to TWS via MatLab.
Regardless - what kind of hardware do you run that on? I use some pretty serious hardware for backtesting/simulation/optimizing. I wouldn't want to be optimizing or updating algos realtime - sounds risky.