Auto trading software for stocks

[Dream]

Hi!

Any suggestions for a free or cheap auto trading software I can use to test my stock strategies (mostly day trading and short term trading (a few days)) before I go Live real trading?

 

[Euler]

WealthLab, Ameritrade StrategyDesk, and CoolTrade all seem to offer this. I can't comment as to how good they are as I haven't used them.

A number of lesser-known, third-party products/open source projects exist as well. If you Google <favorite broker name> and "back test", you'll get a lot of hits.

 

[Dream]

Hi Euler,

Thanks for the info.

 

[sternforpres]

Try Cool-Trade...if you have an TDA Izone account, its free and it has a backtester. If you have an IB accounts, its only 50/month.

I have four PCs running with Cool-Trade, and its great.

 

[Tums]

ninjatrader (free use until you go live)

interactive broker excel spreadsheet (it is a basic framework) (free)

 

[Dream]

Thanks. Can the softwares do the basket order (to buy a few stocks at the same time)?