Faster seperation of the wheat from the chaff

Well I didn’t get any further on my plan from my last post then implementing the plug-in to PSS to dump daily stock data to CSV flat and a console application to crunch the data. Rather, then start analyzing intra-day data right away, I decided to see if I could find any metric that [...]

Cleanup code and then on to Sierra Charts

At this point what I’ve developed is a prototype for a strategy curve fitting detector and thus far the technical indicators I’ve tried all just fit the curve of the price history. Basically I’m finding that while a backtest for a strategy utilizing an indicator with a given set of parameters for the indicator [...]

255 times faster then NinjaTrader strategy optimization

After investigating a number of alternatives (one, two, three) to NinjaTrader, I ended up implementing my strategy as a COM plug-in to DTLink’s Personal Stock Screener, and found that I can run through the equivalent strategy optimization, as in NinjaTrader, 255 times faster.  A significant part of the speed improvement likely comes from three orders [...]

CoolTrade, QuoteTracker, Personal Stock Streamer, and Sierra Chart

Since opentick isn’t currently accepting new users I’ve been looking into other free and easy ways of getting historical and real-time data to feed a strategy written in C++ against TA-Lib.
CoolTrade

CoolTrade is another trading platform. This one carries a subscription fee, but it is free to TD Ameritrade client’s. It does allow strategy [...]