just reading this article http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyb...rading-trickles-down-to-individual-investors/ especially this platform seems to be quite promising to me: http://equametrics.com/index.html Quantopian also mentioned. Quantconnect is another one, not mentioned here.
Nothing these systems do you cannot do with tradestation, ninjatarder or amibroker, to name a few platforms. Actually they seem to be for starters and sound like they just discovered backtesting at a time when it is losing value amongst traders....
So now your taxi driver won't just tell you which stocks are hot, he'll recommend a good algorithm to trade them. Nice progress from 1999.
This is just another way for wannabe retail traders to feel like they're trading within institution plain and simple.