We have updated why TradersStudio. This discuss some of TradersStudio features and why it can do things to help traders make money other platforms can't. It's features are designed for the needs of real traders. Free software is not, in fact programmers who are not successful in trading can not understand what real traders need. TradersStudio is the only trading software designed by someone who designs strategies for institutional traders.
Since the time that computer programmers decided to masquerade as traders the markets got filled by geeks, people with no trading history designing software for traders. You are correct Murray but who listens and who cares anyway. These morons develop software and give it away for free and the other morons think free is great and use it to lose their money. At the same time algos have a ball and hope more morons from CS will write more trading software. Actually, if you want to make money out of these morons who use the free stuff, all you have to do is promote the software. I hope you understand what I'm talking about. If you have a brokerage and you take the other side, would you give your clients anything that can affect your edge? You would be crazy if you did....You give them the usual free stuff that "call home" every time a new trade is submitted, possibly before it is submitted. You know what I mean...
Your are correct and if my only business plan was to sell software I would make a lot more marketing effort. TradersStudio exists because I use it as part of institutional money management programs for clients, like Tuttle. I just sell some software and system to try offset a research and programming budget which is 5 figures monthly. I am starting to do some marketing of my new versions because I want to fund a new push in Artificial intelligence and trading. Many large institutions have started this process also, my goal is to develop this technology and use the best for my own money management business and make a lot of work product and tools available to individual traders and small time money managers who can't afford to develop this technology as a starting point for their work.
You may want to try to contact R. Dalio. He is building an artificial intelligence unit: http://www.businessinsider.com/artificial-intelligence-team-at-bridgewater-2015-2 S. Cohen is also going quant and with artificial intelligence: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-cohens-fund-going-quant-142600693.html Today in his blog, M. Harris talks about a return to quantitative discretionary trading and away from stale mechanical systems: http://www.priceactionlab.com/Blog/2015/03/quantitative-discretionary-trading-back-to-the-future/ There is a need for more intelligent and advanced tools. No one in the right state of mind is looking for just another backtesting platform. This is now history. You have the right ideas.
I have many new features coming in TradersStudio, that don't exist elsewhere and are important to money managers.
I want to get a better handle on the my release date for these before I discuss these features in detail.
No, See I don't believe most traders should be trading down that low. I really don't see use for below 1 minute bars and actual trading should not be done below 5 minute bars. Most of my systems trade 45 minute bars. That the timeframe I like the most. I will give you a hint, a revolutionary advance in the usefulness of Walk forward testing and multiple asset money management.