hiring a developer

southall said:
I think he just said he wants to pay $100 for the whole job.
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That might work if he goes with a young Indian or Vietnamese guy just starting out. As for quality...
I saw one guy on there, the older gentleman, who I would hire in a heartbeat if I was taking another crack at automated trading. $100 an hour for any trading developer worth his salt is a steal. Rates are around $200/hr + for guys of that caliber.
 
Some SMA automated system can be done with ninja less then 10 minutes.But the framework itself could be expensive.I`ve bought a lot over the years,and the most cheapest was $800 afair...
 
BlackRiverRider said:
Yeah, as a programmer for 30ish years, it's not so much knowing how to code in some particular language. It's knowing the environment that you need work done in. C (C++, C#) coders are not hard to find. But finding one that can immediately be productive in NinjaTrader is another story. That has it's own learning curve, as would writing a program to work in Windows graphics, an engineering environment like AutoCad, a web site....Try to find somebody who has successfully implemented something with NinjaTrader.
Jim
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agreed I found a few that had similar projects in the forex AND NinjaTrader world. I'd rather pay more upfront to the expensive guys than have a subpar result.
 
Hello,

I am currently learning NT platform, ATS development environment, back testing capabilities/accuracy/repeat ability/debugging, and programming. It is a high learning curve indeed and its like a job confirming the coding and actually back testing is correct.

All in all, its a fun job.

Enjoy it and make sure the developer test your strategies on several instruments as well.

AND put comments in your code, so you understand every line in that code for enhancements or debugging later.
 
Having dealt with so many poor quality developers who take an excessive amount of time to do even simple tasks (and they end up bug ridden anyway), I don't know how I could ever trust a developer who hasn't sufficiently proven himself (preferably recommended word of mouth), to write code for something I'm going to rely on for trading. Imagine what a bug will cost you in terms of losses, missed opportunity, frustration, your time, etc. I'm not saying find a more expensive dev on that site, but I do suggest trying to find someone you trust (to assess a developer's quality) who can recommend you a developer. There are cheap good developers out there. There's also expensive bad developers out there.

Best of luck in your search.
 
Lee- said:
Having dealt with so many poor quality developers who take an excessive amount of time to do even simple tasks (and they end up bug ridden anyway), I don't know how I could ever trust a developer who hasn't sufficiently proven himself (preferably recommended word of mouth), to write code for something I'm going to rely on for trading. Imagine what a bug will cost you in terms of losses, missed opportunity, frustration, your time, etc. I'm not saying find a more expensive dev on that site, but I do suggest trying to find someone you trust (to assess a developer's quality) who can recommend you a developer. There are cheap good developers out there. There's also expensive bad developers out there.

Best of luck in your search.
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Agreed, one of the contractors that have made it to my short list has over 4000 hours according to upwork.com's statistics. Much of it within the forex/trading realm.
 
Cmoss said:
excellent! I posted my request. I'm hoping due to simplicity they come back and say it's $100
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I managed to have not so simple programming for 50 euro. So 100$ so be enough.
Check experience in Ninjatrader because these programmer are faster in it as they probably have already predefined modules.
 
BlackRiverRider said:
Yeah, as a programmer for 30ish years, it's not so much knowing how to code in some particular language. It's knowing the environment that you need work done in. C (C++, C#) coders are not hard to find. But finding one that can immediately be productive in NinjaTrader is another story. That has it's own learning curve, as would writing a program to work in Windows graphics, an engineering environment like AutoCad, a web site....Try to find somebody who has successfully implemented something with NinjaTrader.
Jim
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For me it was easy to find an experienced Ninja programmer. So it should not be a problem. I took one from Europe, not from Asia, Russia or East Europe.
I paid for three different programs 200 euro in total.
 
Cmoss,

Why don't you give the BloodHound add-on for NT a try first? It's visual programming. Easy stuff. Invest in yourself.
 
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