Registered: Apr 2010
Posts: 97

I'm building and open source trading platform that currently uses IB TWS (back testing and live trading) or Yahoo Finance (only for back testing) to get its data.

see
http://code.google.com/p/trade-manager/

I've added the following indicators Volume, Moving Average, Avg True Range, RSI, Pivots what other indicators do people commonly use for intra-day time frames?

As I want to add the most common ones.

I've been trading for 5yrs full time but I only use SMA, Volume, Support/Resistance, Pivots as for me its all about price.

Please vote

Thanks
James

Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 68

Candles volume and price... Nothing else you need.

Registered: Jan 2006
Posts: 2289

The indicators I use are special and not standard. Also, I use NT which works as front end already on IB and most other platforms for free. The cost you pay is when you go live and/or for data feed.

Registered: Feb 2011
Posts: 275

I know you're a noob by the thread title, but at least learn to spell.

Registered: Feb 2008
Posts: 2962

I use KONGA(14), BUDU(22) and SODE(18). They are fantastic. Better than price.

Registered: Apr 2010
Posts: 97

I did this as an open source project as I have a lots of spare time.

As I focus on gapping stocks (mainly earning) I wanted to build over time a database with gappers and their data (2yrs which will be 3-4K gappers).

As I thought those that know how to trade tend to only use simple MA's, Vol, Price, Support/Resistance and Pivots.

And yes there are a lot of platforms out there that allows you to code simple strategies and yes back testing does give you the best results possible. But as they say if a strategy cant make money when back tested it sure is unlikely to when running live!

Next step is AI algos couple with PGM (Probabilistic Graphical Models) idea here is to identify patterns on charts, trade analyse and learn. This is something you wont be coding in NT or TS.

Thanks
James

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