Recent Content by dsplaisted

  1. Open Source Strategy Development Software

    Unless I am misunderstanding you, what you are calling strategy self-optimization is basically the same thing as walk-forward optimization. So...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Jul 23, 2008 in forum: Automated Trading

  2. Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    RightEdge actually does support accounting for interest rate differentials between currencies. The current release does not support looking into...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Apr 18, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  3. Interactive Brokers vs. Open Tick - volume data

    OpenTick separates its data by exchange. What is apparently happening when you request historical data is that you are just getting the data for...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Apr 10, 2008 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  4. Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

    The correct URLs for TSSupport and RightEdge are actually: http://www.tssupport.com/ http://www.rightedgesystems.com/
    Post by: dsplaisted, Apr 2, 2008 in forum: Trading Software

  5. Is there any backtesting program that has "pivot points"

    Here is a set of indicators written by a user which include pivot points: http://www.tradeengineer.com/DoQ_Indicators
    Post by: dsplaisted, Feb 22, 2008 in forum: Strategy Building

  6. Comparison of auto trading platforms

    There is also a free express version: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/
    Post by: dsplaisted, Jan 7, 2008 in forum: Automated Trading

  7. Auto-trading software for Interactive Brokers

    I would usually think of auto-trading and manual signals as opposites. It sounds like you want to have people subscribe to your signals and then...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Nov 1, 2007 in forum: Trading Software

  8. OpenQuant -- RightEdge -- and IB

    Yes, you can compare bar values that are not consecutive. You have access to all of the previous bars. If you want to close a position 60 bars...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Oct 10, 2007 in forum: Automated Trading

  9. OpenQuant -- RightEdge -- and IB

    In RightEdge, a bar includes values for the Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, and potentially the Bid/Ask. Live data from Interactive Brokers comes...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Oct 10, 2007 in forum: Automated Trading

  10. What was the name of

    Multiplicity (http://www.stardock.com/products/multiplicity/) is a commercial product that will do this. It might be easier to get working.
    Post by: dsplaisted, Sep 23, 2007 in forum: Trading Software

  11. Backtesting Software & Autotrade

    RightEdge has not been "released" yet, but you can download the current beta version for free. We expect to release version 1.0 late this month...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Jan 7, 2007 in forum: Trading Software

  12. convert raw ticks to intervals

    Reading from different parts of the file at once will actually slow you down. The bottleneck in the conversion process is the hard disk speed--...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Dec 21, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. Zen and the art of ATS design...

    As far as optimization goes, using reflection doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Why not set the values for the optimization parameters in the...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Dec 15, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  14. Programs to interact w/ IB TWS API & place trades

    RightEdge (http://www.rightedgesystems.com) will let you do this. We are planning on releasing Beta 3 this weekend which will have support for...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Nov 10, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading

  15. Backtesting

    It sounds like perhaps the problem you're running into is that you can not have more than one indicator with the same name. So you need to rename...
    Post by: dsplaisted, Nov 7, 2006 in forum: Automated Trading