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Building a custom platform for automated trading with Louise!
I'm starting this thread to discuss ideas and challenges around building a custom platform for automated trading on CME. Ask me any questions and feel free to critique!
About me: I started an account with $25,000 today. My goal is to trade a max position of 50 contracts of ES within 3 months using my own platform. I'm a junior mathematics and CS major in college on an exchange program in Europe right now.
I established a 10G connection to CME and started storing data. The data comes via UDP streams and looks like this when parsed.
If built correctly, my data feed should work on historical data and expose the same API as live trading, this way I can do both backtesting and live trading with the same data feed.
This sounds like an interesting undertaking. I have a few questions.
1. What API, Platform, and programming language are you working with?
2. What data provider are you working with to get your data?
3. What made you want to pursue a custom route like this vs. just using an existing retail system?
4. How do you plan to handle back testing? Accessing a data stream is one thing, but building a simulation engine is no small undertaking. Is this something that you are actively planning on?
5. If and when you complete this, what are your goals. Do you plan to trade with this, sell or license it others, etc?
Thanks for taking the time to share this with us!
Ian
In the analytical world there is no such thing as art, there is only the science you know and the science you don't know. Characterizing the science you don't know as "art" is a fools game.
Hello,
I am a prop trader using Lightspeed. Lightspeed does not allow automated trading so my prop firm says I need to switch to sterling pro. Does anyone know where I can obtain coding for Sterling Pro? Sterling uses a Visual Basic Development Environment and also allows use of C#, C++ or JAVA
Thank you