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Americans need to open an account with Fidelity and do 120 trades a year,
however that also gives them free historical and real time data for major
stock exchanges.
Of course you can use it with various data vendors...
vk
-----Original Message-----
From: unicorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:unicorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Alex Matulich
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:00 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: best testing software for intraday trading?
Volker Knapp wrote:
>I am not sure if it has been mentioned that WL5 is out. It is .Net
>based, has fast back testing which is important for intraday data
>and has all the bells and whistles.
That's nice. Does it still require you to be tied to Fidelity, or is
it available as a stand-alone package?
.NET doesn't do anything for me. I wish I could be rid of Microsoft
Windows. I'd love to see an open-source trading platform that runs
under Linux.
Why open source? Because I believe I am smarter than most software
developers, especially those hired to produce trading software.
There isn't a closed-source package yet where I haven't wanted to
grab the programmer by the throat and give him a good shaking,
yelling "Look at how this works!! What were you thinking?!" This
is particularly true of Microsoft products. It was true for
TradeStation, WealthLab, AmiBroker, and now NijaTrader.
I believe an open source effort, with properly designed tasks, could
result in swifter development and more robust performance than any
closed-source project.
-Alex
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