All of this was done summer/fall of ‘06

Strategy Runner. Looks interesting. Years of tick data for testing.
Full platform capable.
Price Paper trader: 2 week trial, $35-$65/month
Real: “call for price”
Strategy Tuner Dev: $3k, $900/yr
Strategy Tuner Standard: $300 one time
Data: 3 contracts included. $50/yr per contract updates

Lite: auto exits only, not entry
Pro: what we want/need. Server hosted strategy.
Automation Station & Guru: for dissemination of strategies to subscribers
Manager: for brokers

Educator basic and Pro??? $34-65/month???

Forums have very low traffic.

System hosting/marketing service?

No scripting? C++ only?

Called and spoke to a guy who barely spoke english. He gave very
short answers and I had to really try to keep him on the phone.
Couldn’t get much out of him.

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How I got here;

• Sometime in early ‘06 some friend’s talk about trading futures finally got to me ;^)
• Sometime in mid ‘06 I realized what I wanted to do was automated backtesting of algorithmic trading strategies.

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