Recent Content by trademeisters

  1. Which platform is better? Takion or DAS Pro?

    I've used all, and 3/4 the most and 5 more recently. Everybody seems to have very high opinions of takion. It's created by the same guys...
    Post by: trademeisters, Jan 30, 2014 in forum: Trading Software

  2. Do you use R for backtesting?

    there are people who do and packages for this (search r seek for quant/finance/etc), although for the most part they trade using daily data....
    Post by: trademeisters, Jan 30, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  3. Less Expensive Historical Data

    you could look at using qcollector, which i believe automates esignal data exporting. might also check out iqfeed they have faster more...
    Post by: trademeisters, Jan 30, 2014 in forum: Automated Trading

  4. current Lightspeed API users

    Sorry you took this the wrong way. I just find it humorous when one little piggy wants to reinvent the wheel. I'm used to little piggys...
    Post by: trademeisters, Jan 30, 2014 in forum: App Development

  5. Getting back in the game

    my bad there are two somewhat similiar threads going on, i replied to the wrong one.
    Post by: trademeisters, Dec 12, 2013 in forum: Automated Trading

  6. Getting back in the game

    or if you want to be firm neutral any software provider that supports lightspeed... trade ideas, pracplay, hammerstone, etc
    Post by: trademeisters, Dec 12, 2013 in forum: Automated Trading

  7. current Lightspeed API users

    lol you're probably better off using somebody else's extension.
    Post by: trademeisters, Dec 12, 2013 in forum: App Development

  8. Is there a Python equivalent to "TradeLink"?

    you should be able to use iron python with tradelink
    Post by: trademeisters, Dec 10, 2013 in forum: App Development

  9. Takion Baskets Traders

    thanks. ofthomas is a saint!
    Post by: trademeisters, Nov 13, 2013 in forum: Trading Software

  10. Need source for OHLCV on 4000 stocks on a daily basis that I can download to Excel

    eoddata.com is pretty good for this
    Post by: trademeisters, Oct 30, 2013 in forum: Trading Software

  11. Technical Analysis software

    tradelink
    Post by: trademeisters, Oct 25, 2013 in forum: Automated Trading

  12. IB API getting fills before order confirmations

    the built for a GUI makes somewhat sense, although there are other obscure "features" like this in the api that are not consistent with how TWS...
    Post by: trademeisters, Oct 15, 2013 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. IB API getting fills before order confirmations

    as far as i have ever gathered it's simply that it's easier for them to do this way.
    Post by: trademeisters, Oct 15, 2013 in forum: Automated Trading

  14. IB API getting fills before order confirmations

    actually IB has a known "feature" where you can get a fill ack either before or instead of an order acknowledgement. if the fill happens quickly...
    Post by: trademeisters, Oct 14, 2013 in forum: Automated Trading

  15. Why do you build your own trading system but not using retail trading software?

    i use 7zip
    Post by: trademeisters, Sep 8, 2013 in forum: Trading Software