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thanks, for valuable advise tjnoon, cuttshot and AmCan1 ! you are right, I may be to optimistic about autotrading. Past few month I spent playing with CFDs and recently with scalping futures, but with mixed results at best. It looks like profits are possible only when terrible abount of time is spent on daily basis. Auto- or half-auto trading would be hopefully less strained. Also, the possibility to backtest is a huge advantage. Manual backtesting would be certaily very useful, but I am not sure if proper adjustments would be easy anough to spot. As for auto-trading, it's obvious that I can't count on developing a system, that will run profitable in long term. I hope, running a set few systems per product one can add to stability and afford scraping system early, as soon as they lose more than in the past (maybe every month or so). If this can work out, I will be more comfortable spending whole time on developing new systems, than trading live on my own. can this possibly work out or am I just going to bump my head against the wall?

Hello everyone, quite an interesting thread, specially for a newbie like me. I'm just trying to figure out if these auto-trading strategies can possibly work out for a individual. My first and current futures trading platform is the NanoTrader (aka IQ-Trader) polling tick data from Patsystems. Although I have not much knowledge on other platforms, I'd say IMHO the software is helpful for working on new ideas, but its GUI is sometimes unreasonably slow and is not safe from crashes. Obvious drawback is it uses just one CPU. Testing (specially in walk forward) feels slow, but I lack experience with other platforms to say that for sure. Even though apparently it's not the best, I'd very much like to learn how this platform compares to others to understand if at some point I may dare to auto-trade live with it or should I consider to change in any case? So, if anyone did came across this platform I'd appreciate your evaluation of it, ideally, against any other known platform(s). Thanks!