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The
best thing about AmiBroker is that if you want a special feature and it is
reasonable Tomasz probably adds it to the program. On this list you will find
countless people who CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO only because Tomasz
listened and added the required features. He has done this hundreds of times,
for many people. I myself still grumble a bit now and then (just like you i want
it yesterday!) but over the years I have seen so many requests implemented that
I don't even dare to quess how many there may have been. I am sure this is
the case for many others as well.
So,
Tomasz, I take this opportunity to say "Thank You" just once
more.
...be
it a love-fest or not :-))))
Herman.
I'll add one more
thought.
I've just been going through the process myself; having both
sent in
an application for Tradestation to cover my bases about 2 weeks
ago
(not activiated it yet) - and, being a current IB trader; having
purchased Amibroker. During this process I tried to
answer the
same question you are grappling w/.
One reason I decided
to start w/ AB and see how far it can take me
is that one of my strategies
deals w/ shorting stocks and I read on
another board that TS brokerage
offers about 3000+ shortable stocks,
while IB offers over 5000+ shortable
stocks. I don't know if that
is 100% accurate or not (pulled
it from another board) but it
influanced my decision to start
here.
Also, I don't know how the programming languages compare but
despite
a bit of a learning curve I'm extremely impressed in about 1 week
w/
the product. It is clearly extremely powerful. Also,
having sent
about 10 questions to support to help get over humps I've been
impressed that for the most part they have all been responded to
very
quickly.
Mike
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "sinhavishal"
<sinhavishal@xxxx>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I don't
understand why shouldn't I be using Tradestation in place
of
> all
these various products which are not integrated properly?
>
>
IB
> ====================
> Cheap brokerage and free data but no
storage and backfill of data
>
> Esignal
>
=========
> Good data but expensive and charting package free
>
> Sierra
> ===========
> Only Charting Package no free
data
>
> Mytrack
> ===========
> Cheaper data but no
good charting package and not a cheap broker
>
>
>
Amibroker
> ==============
> Only Good Chartin Package, No
data and no Brokerage service.
> Free data available via IB but
can't store it easily and even then
no
> backfill.
> With QT
it may be able to backfill and get relatime data via IB
but
> does
not work at the moment.
>
> Hence I would suggest compare all the
prices and add them up as a
> monthly charge. You would come to the
conclusion Tradestation is
the
> best and cheapest.
>
> $99 dollars a month, state of art platform/charting/testing etc,
> Cheap brokerage with free data as well. Chnace of this $99 being
> waived too if you do lots of trade in a month.
>
> Now
why should I use Esignal and pay them $99 just for data and
>
charting?
>
> Why use any amibroker/sierra or mytrack when total
cost comes moe
> than $99 whatever way you trade unless you do only 2-3
symbols
which
> is impractical anyway.
>
> Let me know
your thoughts guy??
>
> Thanks
>
Choco
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