Quote from syswizard:
It's a valid question. With IB, you've got to build your own trading platform....there is no programmability with TWS...you've got to use C#, Java, VB, or (shudder) C++ and their dreaded, warty API. It will take you 10x as long to build a trading system with backtesting compared to building one in Tradestation with Easy Language.
I've done both, so I can speak from experience.
Bottomline: do you want to be trading or programming ?