IB inactivity fee is pretty minimal - $10 if I remember correctly for accounts of your size - it's $20 for accounts less than $2k.
Nothing for Scottrade. You could switch to Interactive Brokers and then there are a number of free or close to free solutions.
Do you need to test single securities or a portfolio of securities?
There is just about nothing for the Mac - it's sad but that's the way it is.
Took a look at Seer - definitely interesting for those looking for backtesting software. Very similar, in approach, to QuantDeveloper by...
I tend to agree about TradeStation - although I found a nice add-on that allows portfolio-level testing....
Interesting - can you be more specific about the issues you were having?
Well, you've got an odd collection of stuff there. Tradestation - strategy building, backtesting (not at a portfolio level), Trade-Ideas -...
I think they don't want to have to support people downloading demos - which I can somewhat understand. Most offer a 30 day money-back guarantee...
I think this might be what you're looking for: http://www.tsresearch.com/software/portfolio/portfolio_analyzer/overview/portfolio/ Rina is...
IQ seems to offer: - Simple optimization techniques - not clear whether it uses genetic algorithms. - Backtesting: seems to offer it for an...
I own TradersStudio as well - it's a good tool for backtesting. It is particularly powerful if you want to test multiple strategies at the same...
Most NN companies will tell you that NN solutions are within 10% of each other - meaning that they are close. Of bigger impact is the inputs you...
Well Neural Networks discover solutions to problems more quickly than brute force methods. Genetic Algorithms are a better approach for...
Well, just about any software that uses a genetic algorithm for optimization. Using GA improves speed radically, and it does so as the number of...
Hmmmm....what software are you looking at currently?
Can you be more specific? What features are you looking for? It will be easier to provide help if you give us a little more detail of what...
If I remember correctly MBTrading.com offers something very similar. I know they offer something called 1.5 level quotes for free.
Hmmmm...I'm having an issue with my computer at the moment so I can't tell you off the top of my head. Ok - picked up the manual, and for every...
I don't use TradersStudio for intraday trading, but there is little reason to think it would be any better or worse than using it for daily...
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