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I'm trying to get more organized with my trading. I trade equities and ETFs and tend to have holding periods measured in weeks or even months. I've been using free online charting software (e.g., Bigcharts) and creating my indicators and backtesting in Matlab. I'd like to consolidate all this to one platform. Are there any products out there I can use for free or low cost while I get familiar with the platform and do some backtesting? For this purpose, I'd need EOD historical data on a handful of tickers - I can import this if the platform won't provide it without a fee/subscription. Also, from what I gather, some platforms use EL while others use C#. I'm not familiar with either, but as I mentioned, I use Matlab (not proficient, but I learned what I needed to learn) - for someone with this as a programming background, am I better off going to an EL platform or a C# platform? Suggestions?