I see you are an MC "basher".....but actually MC does #1 and #2 pretty well. I mean Power Language is pretty easy to understand, albeit understanding all of the declaratives and options has gotten a bit more complex. Intrabar Order Generation and Bar Magnifier are huge features IMHO. However, if you don't make the correct declarations, you can fill an order within a bar and then that same order will fire at the close of the bar....not good, not good at all. You really need to understand how the settings work in combination.
Actually I wasn't bashing them at all. I use MC primarily for #1 and #2, which it manages well. The charting and back-testing features are just a bonus. It's well worth the money I paid for it.
Being a whiner never made me a better trader. Adapting to resources, regardless of the advantages/disadvantages has. Build your own platform if you don't like it. Good luck with that
Exactly. And notice how he never mentions specifics....re: "lacking other things". What things specifically ? These auto-trading platforms are hugely complex....I can't imagine the number of lines of code that comprise these systems.
I've been wanting to trade directly off Excel for a long time, but focused instead on studying markets and developing models. Life is too short to reinvent the wheels.
Unless it's a long-term trading approach, don't even think about it for intraday trading. Reason: STA (Single Threaded Architecture). All of the popular platforms are multi-threaded....for a good reason.
Oh those delusional MC fanbois defending their overpriced flawed investment Do you want me to write an essay?