Hello, I recent friend of mine took a #C programming course at a college for 4 months to build and back test automated trading systems. Now he is done, and have NO trading ideas to programs. I recommend NOT spending time to program if you have no trading ideas that can't be traded manually that shows profitability for some period of time. Eventually I would like to program a trading system, but I don't know what trading idea to program.
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that sounds odd. how does he have nothing to test.. Doesn't he have some sort of strategy he trades.. I can understand if he has no time or is completely out of the market. But, there's a seemingly never-ending supply of stuff to test and program..
Well, I'm not. As I said originally, what I need is a replacement for what I am using now which is an Excel-based API that can both place and cancel and/or modify orders. I have that now with IB and if another futures broker offered it I would go there. Given that there apparently are none, Plan B is to just utilize another programming language such as C#.
Over 95% of my trading is in ES, and although I appreciate the ability to trade the occasional stock in the same account, I'll give that up due to the ongoing and increasing issues with IB. It wasn't always that way with IB; however, they've changed, and therefore so must I. If I start to enumerate those concerns here this thread will deteriorate due to IB defenders who have no clue about how to systematically trade futures both profitably and optimally. But IB's issues are well documented elsewhere on this site.
I see your point, but by his own admission he has no previous experience. Starting from "This is an int" to building a C# interface to Excel could take him considerable time and a lot of frustration.