Registered: May 2002
Posts: 6404

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Quote from dashadow212:

If you have a trading platform that you constantly use and have come to love it, discuss it here and explain why.

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Registered: Jul 2011
Posts: 107

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Quote from Bob111:

my own+ TWS.. as a necessity to execute my orders

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Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 40

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Quote from Big Kahuna:

You programmed your own trading platform?

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Registered: Jun 2007
Posts: 520

Blackwood pro is excellent for equities daytrading.

Beats Lightspeed (average), sterling (awful), rediplus (awful), Anvil (average) hands down for the simple reason that it is faster than all of them and rarely down. I've tried nearly every system on the street and the observation over the years is when software gets overloaded with users it just starts to suck.

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Quote from dashadow212:

If you have a trading platform that you constantly use and have come to love it, discuss it here and explain why.

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Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 1587

Trading or Charting Sofware ???

that are two different points, the one have nothing to do with the other.
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Trading Software, dosnt matter, (exept Meta Trader, i dont do business with them anymore). Software must be handy and easy to customize for your needs. Deals must be easy to make and price quotes and postions overview must be good to see.

Charting Softwares,
there are a lot of good of them.
- Esignal
- Qcharts.
- Meta Stock Equis
- tradesignal
- neo ticker
- aspen graphics
- ensign
- multicharts
- tradestation

and a lot more...

also meta trader 4 is good for charting (not for trading), but the independent softwares are the best (independent of brokers).

peace

Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 340

Trading software is a very vague term. I distinguish 4 general types of trading software:

1. Visual (ex. Amibroker,Metastock)
2. Backtesting (ex. tradingblox, multicharts, Amibroker)
3. Signal generation (ex. Tradestation, multicharts, data mining)
4. Order placement (ex. IB TWS)

Although there is software like Tradestation that does everything but in a general sense, it cannot do some things like I would like it, for example data mining. My favorite combination for competing with pro firms is the following:

1. Amibroker
2. Amibroker
3. Amibroker, Price Action Lab
4. IB TWS

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