looking to work with other traders/coders

I'm building/testing my system in MS Excel, then testing custom indicators in Thinkscript. I've used NinjaTrader in the past, but although I loved the interface, I couldn't mesh with the language. Eventually, I'll need to expand to another "professional" language to complete what I am doing.
 
Jeffro72 said:
I'm building/testing my system in MS Excel, then testing custom indicators in Thinkscript. I've used NinjaTrader in the past, but although I loved the interface, I couldn't mesh with the language. Eventually, I'll need to expand to another "professional" language to complete what I am doing.
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Have you considered also coding your custom indicators in Excel/VBA?
 
Jeffro72 said:
I'm looking to work with and bounce ideas between other like-minded traders/coders. In person, via email, skype, etc.

Specifically looking for those who have been diligently coding, testing, backtesting, etc. for a while, with an end goal of an mechanical/automated trading system (not specifically HFT, though it's not out of the picture).

Doesn't matter at this time if you are profitable or not, just dedicated, hard working, understand coding, and have a genuine interest in developing a solid system, and willing to work with others with the same specs.

Personally, I've been trading/coding/testing full-time the past 3 years (sometimes 16 hours per day), and part time for many years before that, with my own solid system, and looking to connect with others with a similar background.

-Jeff
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Jeff... do you have a systematic trading process that you are trying to automate and what is it that you are currently trading.... stocks, futures, etc



thanks in advance

toucan
 
toucan said:
Jeff... do you have a systematic trading process that you are trying to automate and what is it that you are currently trading.... stocks, futures, etc



thanks in advance

toucan
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Trading futures for now due to leverage. I do have a system I am trying to automate. Currently researching different methods and platforms for doing this.
 
userque said:
Have you considered also coding your custom indicators in Excel/VBA?
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I use Excel/VBA to do my analytical work including some backtesting but not for trading. I find VBA limiting as I still don't know how to find functions that I needed, often had to go back and forth between VBA and Excel to get the functions and then VBA the do loops, logic....

Do you have any suggestion where I can get some help?

Thanks.
 
ironchef said:
I use Excel/VBA to do my analytical work including some backtesting but not for trading. I find VBA limiting as I still don't know how to find functions that I needed, often had to go back and forth between VBA and Excel to get the functions and then VBA the do loops, logic....

Do you have any suggestion where I can get some help?

Thanks.
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Not sure I totally understand what you mean by "going back and forth," but ...

All functions available to the worksheet are also available to VBA. VBA also may have it's own, more efficient versions of worksheet functions. If you are looking for a website listing these functions, let me know.

The sheet and code should work as one. For simple example, the sheet--giving the latest data--should be able to simply spit out one thing--the next forecast. The code should "simply" loop the sheet through history, logging what the past forecasts would have been.

I've been doing this sort of thing (prototyping trading algos--not full trading automation, just automated signal generation) for a while now with Excel VBA. I started coding in general (we used to call it programming :) ) at age 11. (I don't care about building mobile apps or websites, but I'm pretty good at what I do care about--trading signal algos.) Maybe start some sort of Excel VBA thread and reply with the link? I'll help whenever I have the knowledge and time.
 
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