Hi All,
Just joined this forum today.
I'm looking for advise on a good setup for automating my trades.
Bit of background.
I'm new to trading, but had an interest in it for years, with a bit of spread betting in the past. I'm actually an IT architect by profession so not worried about the actual technical setup side of it.
I've been swing trading equities for the last few month and getting a good handle on the various indicators, (I only trade UK FTSE and companies that are SDRT exempt).
However I would like to back test and also automate trades against my strategies. I would like to remove some of the emotion when making my decision and also make the actual bid quicker as I sometime miss the signals in time.
Any advise on platforms with a level 1 data LSE feed with a comprehensive automatic trading ability against scripted strategies? and brokerage that work well (i.e good integrated gateway APIs) ? Preferably a UK company to make it easier for funding and withdrawals?
At the moment I use eSignals for charts and indicators and I've got an alert push message via my mobile on buy and sell signals, I then manually make my trades with hargreaves lansdown.
Many thanks for any advise.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Ross
Just joined this forum today.
I'm looking for advise on a good setup for automating my trades.
Bit of background.
I'm new to trading, but had an interest in it for years, with a bit of spread betting in the past. I'm actually an IT architect by profession so not worried about the actual technical setup side of it.
I've been swing trading equities for the last few month and getting a good handle on the various indicators, (I only trade UK FTSE and companies that are SDRT exempt).
However I would like to back test and also automate trades against my strategies. I would like to remove some of the emotion when making my decision and also make the actual bid quicker as I sometime miss the signals in time.
Any advise on platforms with a level 1 data LSE feed with a comprehensive automatic trading ability against scripted strategies? and brokerage that work well (i.e good integrated gateway APIs) ? Preferably a UK company to make it easier for funding and withdrawals?
At the moment I use eSignals for charts and indicators and I've got an alert push message via my mobile on buy and sell signals, I then manually make my trades with hargreaves lansdown.
Many thanks for any advise.
Ross