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brainycat
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I appreciate all the responses and the good info. I have been looking at existing platforms like multicharts and ninja trader and will likely use those as a fall back. I think I will try and modify the sample code (either activeX or the excelDDE) from IB to see if I can make that work. I figure even if I can't the journey will have its own rewards.
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Thanks, I'll look into it.
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I currently trade manullay via interactive brokers and am interested in automating some of my trading strategies. They are nothing fancy, just using stchastics on multiple time frames, so i figure they could be easily programmed. What I am looking for is a barebones system (no charting needed) that can connect to TWS. I have a little programming experience with vb.net so would be looking to use that language. In a nutshell this is what I want to do: 1) bring in historical and realtime data 2) manipulate it into bars of various time frames 3) apply my strategy and screen for buy/sell signals 4) check portfolio to see if a position is open or not 5) check account to see if available funds exist 6) submit the order market or limit Can anyone point me in the right direction? If some decent commercially available APIs exist I would be interesting in learning about those as well. Thanks in advance.
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brainycat replied to trading4life's topic in Beginners Forum
Hi Everyone, I am obviously new to the site and wanted to introduce myself. I have been trading equities for the last 5 years on a part time basis with mixed results. The primary problem I have is sticking to my methodology. This has led me to look into automated trading (how I found this site!). I have many questions which I will post to appropriate forums in the near future. I hope to learn from you folk's here. Have a great day!