I vote for Amibroker. Unbelievably fast at an unbelievable low price ($199 for EOD). It takes some time to learn it but I have found only one backtesting glitch with it, which I am not going to share here. Minor problem I would say. Other platforms may have more serious problems.
tradelink is free and open source, also : * supports 17 different brokers and data feeds * tick-based, either level1 or level2 * very fast backtest at 300,000-1million ticks/second * live trade with 50us (.05ms) latency * tutorials with videos provided * 300+ member user community google tradelink project or checkout tradelink.org
The learning curve is probably different for everyone, but we've had non programmers follow the tutorials and report success. ask on the community.tradelink.org list to find out more.
Ok so I've narrowed it down to these 3: Investor RT PROS: easy to learn and use, powerful, supposedly fast, great support CONS: $100+ per month AmiBroker PROS: one time fee of $199 (plus other misc crap) CONS: harder to learn Ninjatrader PROS: free, easy to use for simple strategies CONS: harder to learn if you want to program more complicated and specific strategies (you have to go into the code) UGH i feel like i'm bouncing back and forth between systems trying to learn their languages...
sierracharts backtesting fastest in the business but it's in C++, you can do forward testing at 10.000x speed complete trading platform for $18 a month
It's not hard to learn at all, really. The pros of InvestorRt should be additional pros of Amibroker. Normally Amibroker should cost $2000 to $3000 to justify the capabilities of that product. It's a gift that its price is so incredibly low. It still amazes me.
I agree but its developer is in a country where people have learned to live with less and produce more. He must be a very intelligent person.
Amnibroker's site sucks. Is it really the best? Why can't they build a good website if it's so great? (you probably won't answer that)