hi, love this site. finally after 3 years of loosing and breaking even i have finally become profitable . i am treating this now as a business and look for the following software : RISK software: incl Var, sharpe, correlation, max draw down, stress and szenario and back testing. OPTION softare for stocks and futures ( not optionvue, too expensive ) SPAN margin software ACCOUNTING software ( winning/ loosing trades, open trades etc etc... equity balance charting...) i use IB and look for software thats compatible and i dont need to manually import trades. obviously i dont want to spend 10000 of $. if anybody has any good suggestions or has good experience with a software, your ideas and advice would be greatly appriciated. thanks a lot, jack
You can do everything you mentioned with Excel, besides SPAN margin. This one, you must buy from CME ($500 if I remember correctly). IB has a DDE API to excel. I don't know if you can integrate SPAN with Excel.