Maybe it's better to use two available programming environments than build one's own? I'm using one charting service that is flexible and very capable in what it can do for preliminary work. It won't do tick-by-tick backtesting or optimization so I'll have to port to another service when I get to that point.
Have you built your own strategy or trading platform?? If not, why don't you just build it now. Don't just post some rubbish posts on the internet. I'm sure you never build your own trading system because you don't even know how to build simple strategy in retailing software.
I don't want to rain on your parade people but for 99% of us it is probably better to eyeball the facts and make intuitive decisions. I have been a long way through testing different EA systems on one particular platform and none of them came close to me putting my money at risk on their advice.
Like ? I have been looking at Matlab, Sierra Charts and Amibroker as well, what do you think? The things I have been looking for in a auto trading platform: SECURITY - Max on execution platform, Backtesting on local machine, VPS server is protected. BACKTESTING - Fast so we can quickly fine tune, secure so results are not in the cloud. EXECUTION AND SPEED - Needs to link to decent data like IQ data api and interactive brokers easily and be able to run in the micro seconds and nano seconds for tick level execution.
No matter what software you use to assist with trading decisions, garbage in will always give garbage out. Computers are really stupid things, and can only understand Zeros and Ones! The grey sponge, on the other hand, can only think of one thing at a time, so, why not introduce this fact into your trading setup, instead of listening and following other people, just because they wrote something down! The only thing I know, is that I really know nothing! Much more clever people have gone before us, with some of the best minds which will never be seen again, or replicated by any mixture of sand and silicone! J_S