While the OP may possibly have an underlying vested interest for his/ her remarks and the raison d etre for such a thread ..........
However any discussion with respect to a trading platform, especially pertaining to merits and comparisons generally has a tendency to degenerate into a childish competition of 'mine is bigger than yours' .......
Keeping it all into perspective ........
If one knows how to trade, then one can successfully trade even with reference to free charts fed with 'close to realtime' data on the net OR from an excel sheet, even without recourse to charts, which has the ability to pull in web data and has the logic encoded!!!
A sterling example of the same is of grandmothers of yore, who could make money merely from hand drawn point and figure charts by referring to EOD data of previous day from the daily newspaper!!!
So, merely owning any trading platform does NOT make one a successful trader..... or even a trader!!!
What a trading platform does is to provide features (charting, indicators, database, watchlist/ portfolio) and tools (backtester, optimizer, plugins, modules) for one to test, analyze and validate ideas and hypotheses wrt trading in relation to choice of market(s)!!!
The efficacy of any trading tool is directly and proportionally dependent upon the proficiency of the person using it!!!
Proficiency is the key ability here!!!
That being said, the process and purpose of trading can also be met by general purpose languages and modules like Python, MATLAB, R and good 'ol Excel - to name a few!!!
However, the end result in all cases would be the same if proficiency is absent!!!
It takes serious work, perseverance and persistence to build up proficiency, as well as to upgrade it!!!
So if a person like the OP who apparently does not have an iota of capacity for building proficiency for even acquiring a basic minimal understanding of a TA platform like amibroker (AND, in addition, thinks nothing of exposing his/ her lack of IQ by tom-tomming inane childish assumptions to the world, that too in a public forum !!!) feels that he'd be able to do better by utilizing a general purpose language and rebuilding the wheel from scratch ....... ........ then, the only possible sane rejoinder can be Hallejuiah and Hail Mary!!!
However any discussion with respect to a trading platform, especially pertaining to merits and comparisons generally has a tendency to degenerate into a childish competition of 'mine is bigger than yours' .......
Keeping it all into perspective ........
If one knows how to trade, then one can successfully trade even with reference to free charts fed with 'close to realtime' data on the net OR from an excel sheet, even without recourse to charts, which has the ability to pull in web data and has the logic encoded!!!
A sterling example of the same is of grandmothers of yore, who could make money merely from hand drawn point and figure charts by referring to EOD data of previous day from the daily newspaper!!!
So, merely owning any trading platform does NOT make one a successful trader..... or even a trader!!!
What a trading platform does is to provide features (charting, indicators, database, watchlist/ portfolio) and tools (backtester, optimizer, plugins, modules) for one to test, analyze and validate ideas and hypotheses wrt trading in relation to choice of market(s)!!!
The efficacy of any trading tool is directly and proportionally dependent upon the proficiency of the person using it!!!
Proficiency is the key ability here!!!
That being said, the process and purpose of trading can also be met by general purpose languages and modules like Python, MATLAB, R and good 'ol Excel - to name a few!!!
However, the end result in all cases would be the same if proficiency is absent!!!
It takes serious work, perseverance and persistence to build up proficiency, as well as to upgrade it!!!
So if a person like the OP who apparently does not have an iota of capacity for building proficiency for even acquiring a basic minimal understanding of a TA platform like amibroker (AND, in addition, thinks nothing of exposing his/ her lack of IQ by tom-tomming inane childish assumptions to the world, that too in a public forum !!!) feels that he'd be able to do better by utilizing a general purpose language and rebuilding the wheel from scratch ....... ........ then, the only possible sane rejoinder can be Hallejuiah and Hail Mary!!!
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