Enter and Exit at the Close in Amibroker and Tradestation (Daily Bars, OPG, and MOC Strategies)

How to enter and exit positions are important in trading – perhaps one of the most important aspects of trading. How do you enter and exit a trade? We all know commissions can eat into the profits, but slippage might be a much bigger cost. If you’re a long-term investor, slippage is a negligible problem…

Amibroker Automated Trading – Enhancing Algo Trade Live (Automate Strategy In Interactive Brokers)

This article looks at how to trade live and automated with Amibroker via Interactive Brokers. We have been using Amibroker for live automated trading for a few years, without any problems worth mentioning. Automatic trading with Amibroker and Interactive Brokers is relatively easy. You need to address a few issues to make a robust code…

Amibroker – 20 Essential Things You Should Know Before You Start

Amibroker is a popular software for algo traders and those who backtest. It’s inexpensive, fast, and offers all needed to improve your trading. We have been using Amibroker for many years, and absolutely all backtesting on this blog is coded in Amibroker. We like the software and to save you time we have compiled a…

Amibroker Trading Strategies: Code For 100+ Profitable Ideas

Are you looking for Amibroker trading strategies? Are you looking for Amibroker code to make profitable trading strategies? If so, we might have exactly what you are looking for! Since we started this website back in 2012, we have published a “ton” of ideas and strategies – FOR FREE! (But we also have a subscription…

Is Interactive Brokers Safe? (Assets in Street Name, Poor Support, and Compliance Concerns)

Is Interactive Brokers safe? I have been a customer at Interactive Brokers (IB) for the last 11 years and on and off for many years before that. I love IB as a broker, but my capital is at risk:  Your assets in IB are not segregated but held in “street name” and thus you are…

Thoughts On Amibroker in 2024 (Review, Summary, Pros And Cons)

Thoughts On Amibroker in 2024 (Review, Summary, Pros And Cons)

This review of Amibroker is based on many years of live trading. Prior to using Amibroker, I was trading semi-automatically by using a simple script in Excel. Having focused solely on stocks since 2001, I decided to start looking into futures in early 2017 and opted for Amibroker as my trading platform. The question is:…