You should always be careful if the best result is a big green number surrounded by much smaller green values or even red results. This is a clear sign of curve fitting or over optimization. In our example we only optimized the profit amount and the stop loss amount. The results turned out to be quite strong, as you can see in the graphic above. The figures in the report are based on trading shares of AAPL over a two year period. If you apply the same system to a different instrument the results can be very different however, so be sure to at least rerun the optimization for the profit and stop loss amounts.
While it works well on daily charts its application to intraday charts is hampered by the fact that we cannot set a start and stop time for day trading, so trades are taken around the clock. The approach does however give us an excellent starting point for testing different strategies that we can later enhance through additional programming. If you use TradeStation try building your own system with these tools. There are a wide variety of entry and exit strategies, experiment with them and try your own creative combinations.
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An unexpected error has occured in scheduling your call-back request. Please browse our FAQ or contact us directly for further assistance. Want answers fast? Get answers now! With a well-coded strategy we will get the same backtest results with Tradestation and Multicharts as well as Ninja Trader — this shows us that whatever we are doing makes sense.
A tough choice for each platform has its merits. The way Quant Savvy designs systems and how we apply chart settings we find Multicharts works better for us, I am sure every trader will have a different experience which is very normal.
Faster updates and release cycles. More responsive to user requests for new features. Very helpful support. NinjaTrader — has vastly more 3 rd party add-ons. NinjaTrader is coded in C so the active algorithmic trading community is enormous.
Very low commissions, access to numerous markets, free software, free historical one-minute data. We use every major broker for live trading for our users. The same strategy is traded on different Servers located in the same area. I feel this puts us in a unique position to compare the actual live performance nearly all other forums and debates on this topic do not see daily live fill comparisons for automated systems. Tradestation, proven better fills and lower latency.
If any reader wants to debate this point with us , we can show you the live trade by trade comparisons between the different trading strategy execution combinations. However, results speak for themselves — our algorithmic trading systems loaded to TradeStation constantly get better fills compared to other trading software.
You need to spend time on each platform and see which one suits your trading style and personality. Ninja Trader although much improved still has a steep learning curve for the average day trader who wants to start automating. All platforms have their positives and negatives, for the Quant Savvy team , Tradestation is the winner.
Tradestation has a highly rated mobile app, across the board commission price cuts combined with the free software and free live trading data and free historical data which can go back 20 years is a game changer. Tradestation has more than 30 years experience under its belt; it has always been a leader and innovator in the automated trading realm. Making money is the primary purpose for most traders except the self-described elite programmers who like to write lovely complex unnecessary code , the TradeStation live performance has better day trading fills, this means improved long-term results.
TradeStation is an overall winner not just for the algorithmic trading software but also for the best day trading platform. Our review has shown that TradeStation is the best day trading platform for beginners and intermediate traders using technical analysis or algorithmic trading. Tradestation TS is also a clear winner when it comes to the Mobile app, easy live Automated Trading, extensive free historical data, free day tick data and a strong charting package.
Metatrader Amibroker Quantopian. Thanks for a great article! Had all the information I needed to help me choose the right platform for me. What do you think about Sierra Chart? Hi Matt, we do not have a lot of experience with Sierra Chart, in the near future we will most likely review them and see if they compare with Tradestation especially in terms of live fills. I have found that back testing in NinjaTrader is not possible for manual day trading.
One second worth of ticks are combined together. This means the candles lurch around once per second, wrecking my ability to sense which direction the candle might be moving, It is in no way similar to live trading.
I spoke with NT support who confirmed this limitation. This is really a bummer for me. I am still at the point where I am entering trades manually while attempting to code intelligent stops.
My plan was to iron out my stops, then move on to coding my entries if possible. I will try to report back here with what I learn. Not sure yet. If all ticks are combined into 1 second for Ninja Trader then that certainly makes it useless for any shorter-term intervals as a lot can happen in 1 second.
If you do not want to pay for the excessive data fees with Kinetick then it might be easier just to use Tradestation where you can get free software and free data which for Eminis goes all the way back to 1min data and 90 days tick data. At Quant Savvy we have tried nearly all principal brokers compatible with both Multicharts , Ninjatrader and Tradestation , we are positioned perfectly to give you the best data and insight into real live trading comparisons.
Unlike other reviewers, we have traded live simultaneously multiple different broker and software combinations with identical strategies; we have comprehensive data on fill differences between platforms and brokers.
For automated trading backtesting, the right trading software must be selected based on your programming skill and expected probable hours learning a new language entirely to execute your algorithmic trading strategies correctly. Tradestation Review This company has been around forever and earned many awards in the past. Stability and bugs:. Tradestation Can be left open for weeks at a time without any issues. Automated Trading systems have no problem working day after day.
They have worked on platform stability considerably with recent updates and this shows with the performance. Live data and historical data is accurate. We have heard from other traders that the workstation for Tradestation 9.
In our experience , the primary grievance is when an automated strategy encounters an error mid trade and turns off — there is no alert for when this happens which can be an issue especially if you have a day job.
Multicharts This trading platform rarely crashes. Software rarely crashes during live markets, however, with every new release we do see some teething issues they should try increasing the level of beta testing.
There have been times where we get memory leaks, but the MC team is good at providing fixes very quickly. Ninjatrader Although stability has improved with the latest versions we still find in our experience, Ninja Trader is very buggy, and we have had many crashes or freezes.
Latest improvements mean the platform is now multi-threaded makes for a better experience with NinjaTrader 8. Stability of the latest version is much better than the initial release. Some users have reported NinjaTrader 8 freezing while in a trade which then requires a restart.
We have also experienced this issue a few times. Winner: Tradestation Difficult decision as all retail software has numerous issues with stability, however, with our live trading we find that Tradestation has the most consistent performance and trading with real money is when stability really counts — learn more. Programming Language: Tradestation Uses Easylanguage which as implied is very easy to use and implement trading strategies, even though it does have a page guide.
Easylanguage is constrained in what it can achieve for more advanced algorithms and customisations. Learning EasyLanguage does give you the ability to use it on Multicharts which can easily be connected to many different brokers including Interactive Brokers. Read more about Easy Languageperformance and limitations — click here.
There is a decent guide on how to learn coding and the learning curve is not very steep. Reliable trading systems. TradeStation Platforms and Tools TradeStation offers a broad range trading tools to help you research and analyze the markets, place trades, and manage your account, at home or on the go. Desktop Experience the full power of TradeStation on our award-winning desktop platform.
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Web Trading. Mobile Apps. Designed for Futures Options Traders. Execution quality. TradeStation connects directly to dozens of stock, futures, and options market centers to support high-quality fills. We use an independent third party to benchmark our performance in dozens of different ways, including execution speed and fill quality.
Dive into our market data. Daily stock data goes back over 50 years. Intraday stock data goes back over 28 years. Daily futures data goes back as far as 69 years. Intraday futures data goes back as far as 36 years.
Daily index data goes back as far as 59 years, with the Dow 30 going back to Intraday index data goes back over 35 years.
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