Spreadtrading software?

[TraderZones]

Quote from Synonym:

Sounds very interesting. You can have standalone strategies, it's great to build a group of strategies that complement each other. It enables your trading to have true direction and focus, plus there's the shared learning and synergy to be gained too.



Great. I can't wait.



As i said i'm new to spreading, and clearly you're very experienced, but i know exactly where you are coming from. A little backtesting to confirm what TA is effective for providing extry/exit signals, momentum readings, assessing retracements, etc is all i'm really after. I know as i move towards spreadtrading the bulk of my work is going to be on the sort of stuff you've mentioned above.

I'm currently considering the best way to start my spreadtrading, by assessing the size of the barriers to entry (e.g. market's characteristics, level of risk and margin requirements, and what this means for seed capital, total fees - fundamental and seasonal data needs, quotes, charting and TA, choice of broker, etc).

I've yet to decide whether seasonals or other "relative strength" based spreadtrading is the best place to start. I have even considered beginning with some "relative strength" based pairstrading of etfs as a starting point. Although this then causes some problems on the charting and TA side.

there are a few seasonal sites for spreads; this site has a lot of spread charting capabilities, including seasonals.

http://scarrtrading.com

I have never used it, and don't know if it adds in TA or indicators. It DOES have a huge amount of spreading functionality, historical behavior, historical price range and many other things. It is under $200 a year, and you can try out corn and crude free

I used to subscribe to BarChart.com 3+ years ago, its paid version MAY have spread charts, I do not remember.

 

[Synonym]

Quote from TraderZones:

there are a few seasonal sites for spreads; this site has a lot of spread charting capabilities, including seasonals.

http://scarrtrading.com

I have never used it, and don't know if it adds in TA or indicators. It DOES have a huge amount of spreading functionality, historical behavior, historical price range and many other things. It is under $200 a year, and you can try out corn and crude free

I used to subscribe to BarChart.com 3+ years ago, its paid version MAY have spread charts, I do not remember.

Looks good, i'll check it out. For that money it may well be worth it for just some small functionality. Thanks TraderZones.

Syn

 

[TraderZones]

Quote from Synonym:

Looks good, i'll check it out. For that money it may well be worth it for just some small functionality. Thanks TraderZones.

Syn

well, you cannot lose poking around the free ones to see if it what you want. Although I think it highly questionable trying to apply TA to spreads. I am not a TA person, but assuming it is "self-fulfilling" or whatever, there is no reason to think it applies to pairs of instruments. I would seriously test that theory with a lot of simulated trades, and see if you get an "edge" even for your sample. I suspect you will find it almost entirely random.

Seasonal spreads may have a basis. But TA applied to spreads sounds like a blind stretch.

 

[Synonym]

Quote from TraderZones:

well, you cannot lose poking around the free ones to see if it what you want. Although I think it highly questionable trying to apply TA to spreads. I am not a TA person, but assuming it is "self-fulfilling" or whatever, there is no reason to think it applies to pairs of instruments. I would seriously test that theory with a lot of simulated trades, and see if you get an "edge" even for your sample. I suspect you will find it almost entirely random.

Seasonal spreads may have a basis. But TA applied to spreads sounds like a blind stretch.

Very true. I've a few questions abotu the site an so have contacted the owner. Thanks again for flagging it to me.

I am new to spreadtrading, but from my understanding of price action and having looked at varous spread charts, you can see how it applies. Of course you would only want to keep your TA relatively simple, but having spent a fair bit learning about spreadtrading, apparently trend analysis works very well for many spreads.