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Sounds Good I'll certainly like to attend on the 25th - I'm an experienced programmer just getting into trading.

Can you enter manual trades with live/historic data in TradeStation and then replay them with different stops and targets to optimize your exit strategy?

- this looks interesting, yes. I also noticed the post by OpenQuant - their system looks very good and reasonably priced (500 dollars) - have you tried it at all? Sorry for my ignorance but what's YM? I'll have a look at the figures for IB from what I can see, each futures contract will cost...

Thanks for your reply. Yes - I've had a look at them but their pricing structure seems alot like IB's because their products are tied directly to the futures market. With twowayfutures and IB wouldn't I be forced to make a 'minimum trade' on the index?

I am an experienced software engineer looking to commit some time and money (£500-700) into Trading Technology so I can do the following 1. Run back-testing scripts against historical data. 2. Run automated trading rules to execute trades. 3. Run very small trades at first once I start trading...