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Hey James
If you're just trying to get comfortable with a new system and are doing EOD
trading then after you get the signal in the evening you can just put in a
simulated Market On Open order and in your trading use the next mornings
open as your entry price. you can keep this in a spreadsheet.
As far as brokerages are concerned I have been with TD and Ameritrade and
several others and I finally found what I consider the best. Interactive
Brokers. There you open a universal account where you can trade both stocks
and futures and the options on each in one single account. The commissions
are dirt cheap (ie I bought 10,000 shares of a penny stock a few weeks ago
and it only cost me $1.00, yes one dollar!!!)and the execution for me has
been flawless. PLus AB has an Interactive Brokers plug in so that you get
live realtime quotes streaming into your computer all day for free. It is a
really sweet setup. Interactive uses what they call Traders Work Station
(TWS) and I believe they have a demo version of it that you might be able to
papertrade with delayed data. check them out...
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/main.php
Hope that helped.
mikey t
>From: james brady <jimbrady51@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [amibroker] WHERE & HOW CAN I "PAPER TRADE"?
>Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:24:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
> OK, so I have done my backtests, optimizations,
>and walk forward to reassure myself. But let's say I
>want
>to papertrade for a while to increase my comfort and
>safety level. I'm an EOD trader, so, every night,
>I'll get on the computer and, and ... do what? I can
>run a scan to generate my Buys and Sells for tomorrow,
>right. But since I won't actually be buying or
>selling on some sort of brokerage account, how do I
>keep track of the buys, sells, commissions, money
>market interest on my idle money, etc? Can I do it on
>Amibroker? As part of the Automatic Analysis window?
>
> I have called both Ameritrade and TD Waterhouse,
>and they seem to be telling me that they don't offer a
>good paper trade account. Where do I get this? Are
>there some other online brokers that offer such a
>service, and I should switch accounts? Could I use a
>spreadsheet? Quicken, Yahoo!--none of these seem so
>simple. A special website? I went on Google with an
>entry like "paper trading stock market securities,"
>and the hits I got don't seem so easy or cheap, or
>they trying to pressure me into secutities other than
>common stocks. Hey, everybody pays homage to the idea
>of papertrading, but how do you actually do it?
>
> Anybody have any suggestions, tips, personal
>experience, etc? Can you point me to a good article
>somewhere in the investment literature, or online? Do
>you know of a webbroker or other sort of website that
>would provide this service free, or for a modest cost,
>keeping track of fees, interest on idle money, etc.
>Please help, I'm eager to get back in the market.
>
>Jim Brady
>
>
>
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