If you dont have experience writing software , or software requirements...dont bother with upwork, unless you're willing to use the people who charge $100-$200 and hr and are truly professionals.
Your ability to communicate what you want in a precise fashion is extremely critical to your success. Even more so if you hire an amateur. I've written several end-to-end trading platforms, and have outsourced some of the work thats not worth my time (on upwork)...very much a mixed bag. I spent almost as much time guiding the dev as I would have needed just to do the job myself.
You got the people at right time. In my opinion often if companies start or produce something to enter market the products are higher quality and support is more competent.I had a big project on UpWork/Guru approximately 10 years ago. The company was new and wanted to make a name for themselves, so I received premium service and attention. Extremely satisfied.
You got the people at right time. In my opinion often if companies start or produce something to enter market the products are higher quality and support is more competent.
Later if operation gets bigger, support personnel wont have as good overview anymore and costs get cut more to maximize profits.
I would love to talk with you and send you a video of my system. Can we set up a phone call anytime this week?? Please send me a private message and we can set something up.
I already have a system programmed on Tradestation but TS has too many limitations. I am ready to take on this task.
I can't commercializ it the way I need to.
I'm a seasoned software developer and a quantitative trader. I write my own software and run my own automated trading systems full-time. It is literally what I do day-in, day-out, it's not a part-time project.
It has taken me years to learn the trading side of things, the programming side is relatively straightforward - combining them both is a unique skill set very, very few people posses.
Unfortunately, these kind of skills don't come cheap.
My suggestion is to stay away from platform type solutions like - TradeStation, MetaTrader, etc. They are hugely limiting.
Depending on the complexity of your project. You may be able to get away with a simple connection to IB API, subscribe to data updates and react to it. Anything more and you'll need someone who has knowledge of multi-threaded, event driven systems. You'll need to react to price and order updates, etc.
Python is a relatively simple language and there are many programmers who knock up something for you. I personally use Golang, due to its speed and number crunching abilities which I require for my strategies. I'm not here to compare or contrast programming languages - you've got to use what's best for your requirements.
So, building a trading system is not straightforward, it's like asking someone to build a car. What type of car? how fast should it go? type of terrain? passengers? etc. etc.
Hope this helps.
I’m curious what limitations? Are you sure IB will not have those?I am trying to leave tradestation because they have to many limitations.