I need some help. I have some indicators of my own that I would like to be used on a monitor minute by minute. They are simply mathematical but the problem of interfacing with a screen and a real time server boggles my mind. I know trade station may enable me to create my own program but I rather be more independent. Thank you.
Do You want an off the shelf piece of software that you can tweak yourself or help from a developer to create a simple system that will monitor your indicators... <img src="http://www.enflow.com/p.gif">
you might want to take a look at amibroker (www.amibroker.com), I did played with that a bit, seems to be very flexible for you to program your own indicator (has a very active yahoo group, and the developer is very supportive), it has a real time version, most likely that is what you will want. u can download and play with it during the trial period, you will have to subscribe to some data feed though (again, the data feed can have trial period too, so u can use it together with the package) The reason I didn't use that is that I don't develop system or my own indicator, but if I decide to do that at some point, I most likely will come back to take a look at that again.
You can create indicators in Excel that test stocks or whatever markets and then throw the results into Sierra Charts... but its not easy... but for us was the only way we could build CUSTOM indicators and then chart them at a high level right out of excel... It protects your indicators because you control Excel input which we never see... We have set that up for large traders but its not inexpensive so maybe you could find a way to do that another way that is more cost effective... <img src="http://www.enflow.com/p.gif">
Hi there, you don't have to use the amibroker developer kit, those are for different purposes. to develop indicator, you use their special language call AFL, (you can download their user manual, or just download the trial versioni of the software, and look at the user guide) stands for Amibroker Formula Language, take a look whether it is for u, because Amibroker also let you backtest your strategies, so if you can handle the AFL, then it might meet your requirement. To develop your own indicator with package software, you will most likely have to use their language and do some "programming", so if you do not feel comfortable having others develop the indicator for you (because you prefer to guard your indicator secret), them u will have to learn to program some system one way or another. good luck....