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Sideshow,

Yeah I use the SMTP interface (email) to send orders from Tradestation to Ninjatrader. So OEC, would be very similar and probably not free me from Tradestation.
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Free you in what way? OEC has their own platform as well but you can't write strategies, just trade manually. Although they do also have an API.
 
I'm completely automated/mechanical trader so I need a platform where I can code my strategies other than Tradestation, so free me in that way.
 
Quote from geoMEAN:

I'm completely automated/mechanical trader so I need a platform where I can code my strategies other than Tradestation, so free me in that way.
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Aha. Yeah that's still a problem. Wealthlab was going that way then Fidelity bought them and you have to trade with Fidelity (and no futures at Fidelity). Ninjatrader is supposed to have it all but I found it a pain in the @ss to use, although I will freely admit I didn't try too hard (I didn't think I should have to).
 
If I was just going to trade manually I would use Ninjatrader by itself with zenfire live feed with Mirus in a heartbeat.
 
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If they added this one feature so I could close and reopen workspaces with charts like you can in Tradestation, I would switch to them in a heartbeat and recode everything in C#.
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Will be support in our next major release, NT7.
 
Ray,

Thanks for replying. This is very good news for some of us locked into using Tradestation + Ninjatrader combination.

I will go hunt around on the Ninja support forums for more info on this, but I would hope that the workspace functionality would have this main feature:

!!!!!
*****Be able to apply a strategy to a chart and have that strategy assigned a particular account, and have all these settings (strategy and account and parameters etc.) STICK / SAVED across sessions. *****
!!!!!

I could leave Tradestation forever if this was implemented well! Exciting news, even if I do have to wait a few months for NT7.

I already own NT outright, so it's good news that I won't have to go learn another product/platform, and instead I can focus my efforts on writing in C# and working in NT.
 
Quote from SideShowBob:

Free you in what way? OEC has their own platform as well but you can't write strategies, just trade manually. Although they do also have an API.
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Maybe I'm mistaken (which very well may be the case) but can't you write strategies in OEC (in C# or upload/convert Easy Language) and auto trade them from right within OEC? I thought they had a plugin which let you do this?

Maybe brownsfan can help me out...
 
From what I HEARD (no first hand experience), with OEC is basically like a Ninjatrader in that you can receive SMTP (email) signals from Tradestation and execute them via OEC's "AutoX" module.

I could be wrong but from what I've heard from two different traders who use it is that you can't write native strategies in OEC.
 
My understanding is that OEC has a module which will pull signals out of TS for execution, they also allow users to upload Easy language or code in Easy Language/C# and run that inside the Charts in “Auto Trade Mode” through the custom indicators.

For more information, I would contact OEC directly as I am learning this kind of stuff as well.
 
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