Anyways, VK (I'm grateful for you contribution in Omega-list, though I'm a lurker) and Gltich thanks... I have learned so much as a market coder from your work.
I agree that WL is an easy language but programming an interactive user interface with WL is impossible: there is no events associated with objects as far as I know so coding an entire integrated trading system with a traditional programming environment is still a good choice. This is rather easy with a tool like VB or Delphi. Now my opinion is based on version 1 (just a detail if you want to move the software to another machine it's not easy because of the protection system, I don't know if it is still the case). Also I think an online version with data feeding as asp service would be more advantageous than this hungry piece of software that can compete with Excel as for eating memory
There's a question of balance. Do you want to write your own code to support and load many different data formats? Do you want to write code to create indicators based on historical price data? Do you want to write low level routines to compress historical data from daily to weekly, 5 minute to 60 minute, and synchronize different data series by date? Do you want to write the code to render the price data and indicators on a chart in bar, candle, point & figure (etc.) formats? You get the idea If the answer is yes and you're a good programmer then of course the sky's the limit with a standard Windows development environment like Delphi or MS Visual Studio.
As an editor software you have to cope with generic programming. Generic programming is much longer. It is not the case when you program specifically for your own need. I am a software architect in fact so I know the problem of generic programming (I only do that for clients if they have money to pay the time needed for generic programming ) I don't program myself I had to pay an engineer to do so. That's why we bought Wealthlab because we wanted to do things rapidly at minimal cost. But finally after one month we gave up. It is not a critic of Wealthlab it is a general problem: when you buy a commercial package you are sure constrained by what it offers and have to wait months or years for the evolution of the product.
As for compression routines it is not the hardest part in my opinion. Complexities rather lie in user interface and interactivity that's why I mentionned this lack but it is not specific to Wealthlab I even agree that WL is one of the best product in his category but the whole category has still to evolve : I really thing that ergonomy in trading system and generally in so called "professional softwares" are late compared to other softwares for the mass public: it seems like when it is too easy to use it is not considered professional
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There's a question of balance. Do you want to write your own code to support and load many different data formats? Do you want to write code to create indicators based on historical price data? Do you want to write low level routines to compress historical data from daily to weekly, 5 minute to 60 minute, and synchronize different data series by date? Do you want to write the code to render the price data and indicators on a chart in bar, candle, point & figure (etc.) formats? You get the idea If the answer is yes and you're a good programmer then of course the sky's the limit with a standard Windows development environment like Delphi or MS Visual Studio.
If the answer is yes and you're a good programmer then of course the sky's the limit with a standard Windows development environment like Delphi or MS Visual Studio.
) I don't program myself I had to pay an engineer to do so. That's why we bought Wealthlab because we wanted to do things rapidly at minimal cost. But finally after one month we gave up. It is not a critic of Wealthlab it is a general problem: when you buy a commercial package you are sure constrained by what it offers and have to wait months or years for the evolution of the product.