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This is now conformed through email by MultiCharts, and therefore must (?) be valid for TradeStation's EasyLanguage as well.
drftr
ADDED (and sorry for leaving it out): This means that most data I would need indeed can only be had with either:
1) PowerLanguage while having charts and/or other screens open (so I would have to be logged on somewhere all the time and generate relevant charts and whatever I need) to be able to use the data;
or
2) Use C# on MultiCharts.NET so that I can query and process all data I need without having to develop and generate charts and stuff first.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
Do you really need a mechanical solution for such a low frequency of trading? Are you opening thousands of new trades per week?
Maybe this interview of Kris Longmore, founder of Robot Wealth would give you some more insights. BTW, this guy is an expert with Zorro and its strong/weak points maybe you should try to contact him to get a realistic perspective.
I often have no access at all and I don't consider that a problem for not being able to get in. But I DO find it a problem for not to be able to get out! What's more is that I'm sharing signals with a dozen others so I wouldn't want them to rely on someone who isn't! ;-)
Now both are front and back end: Excess for the main strategy and Access for hedging. Obviously I want to mix the best of both worlds in the new setup.
Ok. Curious as to why you (assumedly) never delved into VBA.
I coded my initial algos using Excel, VBA, and the Excel evolutionary algo. Amazing what you can (slowly) do in Excel. But as you know, it gets cumbersome and very restrained.
Depending on the details of your strategy, it may be possible to, one at a time, farm out the duties that your Excel and Access performs, a la carte, to a language like Python.
What I'm saying is that with all other solutions, you'll have to fully export your strategies into them before you can benefit; whereas, the Python solution may allow piecemeal, incremental, improvements/benefits.
Again, this possibility all depends on facts I don't have.
It's more difficult to create and modify an excel spreadsheet compared to building/modifying that same data using code.
Again, I can't know anything for certain re: your situation, from where I sit.
(A programming language can manipulate data in an abstract way; Excel/Access are "physically" restrained to two-dimensional "space." [With unnecessary/additional effort in implementation and maintenance, the restraints can be partially overcome by utilizing VBA])
All perfect points and from where I stand AFTER absorbing what has been shared with me on this and my other thread on the EasyLanguage sub forum I think you pretty much nailed it.
I want to move away from Excel because my linked spreadsheets must have millions and millions of formulas that make it a very tedious job to change it into something different. Access comes with its limitations as well and if I add mine it doesn't look good. It works. That's it.
What's left is learning a new language as I wonder what I need an application for if it's doing a lot of things I don't want and not the things I do want. I could still re-use a lot of stuff, but anyway...
Disturbing that the only questions I got answered where from MultiCharts support as neither TradeStation, AmiBroker, QuantConnect nor Backtrader bothered to answer, nor did they allow me to post the quesions on their forum without buying the software first (have posted on the TS forums as they're my broker but to no avail). Without answers and/or support for sure I won't select any of those and prefer to bite in the dust, so that leaves 1) reconsidering Access or 2) starting from scratch with a new language as my options.
I will leave the post open for a few more days in case someone else wants to chime in and will then consider my questions answered.
