Please recommend a best broker for stocks autotrading

Hello everyone,

We`ve decided to create own autotrading system for day-trading. But we have zero experience in it. Could you please advise a best broker for this purpose and platform.
We`ve chosen Interactive Brockers + Ninja Trader. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts about this pair. Thank you a lot.

 

That's a perfectly adequate combination of broker and platform to get started quickly.

 

Ninja Trader works with many different brokers. For stocks IB is fine. If you ever decide to switch to futures or forex, there are a few more options to consider. (Futures is becoming increasingly popular for daytrading for a variety of reasons, it is definitely something to look at.)

http://www.ninjatrader.com/webnew/partners_onlinetrading_brokers.htm

 

Thank you, guys.

 

Anybody have experience with hooking up an excelworkbook to your broker. Is this even possible....??

 

I know that Interactive Brokers has $1 trades if you use Cool-Trade, an automated trader. They also have special pricing through other brokers, but $1 is a steal.

 

There are many ways to do this. Here is just one:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=191918