This tradebolt thing is the thread that won't die. Tradebolt is dead, gone, well sort of, they got sucked up by a big outfit, get over it....... BTW, I looked at everything, I mean everything available to replace tradebolt. I was looking at that stuff after I started searching the tradestation forums and reading up on autoexec with their charts and their trademanager. I discovered that they have a real Frankensteins monster put together and it gave me nighmares. Ok, here we go, from memory. I rejected tradebullet and maybe one other item because they require the Tradestation trademanager to work and I was tying to avoid that thing. There is this TWSLink thing that looks promising but it would not work with my setup, Multicharts with IB or Tradestation data. The guy has a thread on yahoo so I was asking [rather stupid actually] questions but it turned out that even once I got past my own stupidity, the thing did not work for what I was doing and the guy said it did not work for him either, then deleted the thread. Then there was hyperorder, I could not download the software about a year ago so I dropped it but more recently became desperate enough to revisit that stuff. I worked with some version of the IB API and TWS from antiquity but we all know that you have to maintain your code if it works with IB because they don't do backward compatability and they don't care if they break your stuff, it's up to you to keep up.. and I would say that hyperorder did not keep up. Then I found some thing called traderassistant.. pricey at $200 euros but I trialed it. It also worked with an ancient [that's IB speak for last month's] API and TWS and I could not get it to work anyhow. They emailed me and said they have decided not to support it and are pulling it from the market, which I took as "this is hard, we can't do hard stuff". Next step was NinjaTrader. I trialed that thinking maybe I could use just the dll that connects things from Multicharts or whatever to IB. It doesn't do quite that, it connects via NinjaTrader and when you fire it up you get a screen that says "click here to trade for real" and it takes you to the signup screen and you have to spend $180 or so for 3 months. I did that, the software works fine. At the time it was imperative that I have limit orders in the autoexec arsenal but then I found that strategy was flawed and I dumped it. The current stratgy works fine with market orders manually, which would make it work fine with Tradestation's thing actually probably, and it will work with Multicharts automation [their limit order implementation is under development]. So it comes full circle, I am out $180 [hey, i'm a trader, I'm used to that, right?] but I did get familiar with NinjaTrader and found that I like it somewhat. I'll see ya all on the Multicharts forums when I come up with my next round of [rather stupid, most likely] questions. This reminds me of 1996 when I was first looking at charts. I wanted technology that did not exist seemingly. I was emailing these chart companies and saying "I want the current daily bar to update intraday, not get posted an hour after the day is over" and they were replying with "why would you want that??", and "could you be a little more clear about what you want, nobody else is requesting that".........
Max, thanks for the write-up nice history you put together. i have been using the traderAssisstant method for about 2-3 months now. (on sim account only). and have fair results. fair reliability. there is 2 methods they include, 1) order execution via the trackingcenter from TS2000i, which is the method i'm using. 2)the "dll" method, in which you write the code in your signal, and it executes directly w/ the TWS api via the dll (?).. i'm a bit stupid on this method. your correct about the ancient api tho.. it's a bit old. i was wanting to confirm my impression about Multicharts.. for ATS, Multicharts does not require 3rd party apps. it will manage order execution w/ IB's tws/api from within the Multichart software.. correct? again, thanks.. bb
Yes, Multicharts will automate you with IB. When they have limit orders I will be happier than a clam. GET THE LITTLE HINT ON ET, huh MULTICHARTS PEOPLE?? Just kidding, they have it on their list and will get it done at some point. Meanwhile if market orders work for you they are supposedly good to go. I have a thing to backtest and automate, I'll review MC at this site probably once I get through all that. I always hate any software until I learn it thoroughly, then I only mildly dislike it typically, so I will refrain from official review until I get to know it and love it's features.
Hi everybody, I am very very new to trading buisiness. I opened a Schwab account last month and have started with $500. But nevertheless, I am interested to learn about "trading systems" and automated trading. First of all, is there a trading software that can be run on top of Schwab's StreetSmart Pro software and be able to communicate with it? If not, could anybody please give me a hint about where I can start from. I am good in coding; I know C++, MATLAB, VB, and Fortran and want to develop my own trading system on an existing software. I would appreciate any help. Mohsen
Is tradebolt still in business? Cant access their website or get any version of tradebolt's software?
i was glancing at Ninja's forum, it appears they automate with TS 8 only? so if you wish to automate with 2000i, Ninja is not compatable?
TS2000 is not officially supported. However, in the NinjaTrader installation folder <program files>/NinjaTrader6.5/bin/AutoTrade you will find a NinjaTrader.ELS which could be a starting point. The scripts might be a bit outdated (please cross check with the NT docs) and you might need to tweak them...