Hi Paul (and ShortFox) thanks for replying. I have been monitoring
this list for a week now and have been very impressed with it. I'm not sure
when Thomasz sleeps (I guess he's in a European time zone) but I'm particularly
impressed by his timely replies. I didn't ask about customer service in my
original post as I can see that it's first class. BTW I hope it is OK to
mention other software in passing as long as its with the view of moving TO AB
and not the other way round:-)
My reasons for changing - OK I have been trading quite happily
with Ensign mainly using some of its drawing tools (medianlines and
Fibonacci). Drawing and visualisation are great and I think most
developers might learn a thing or two by taking a peek at
these.
I have decided to switch back to another style of trading
that relies heavily on a suite of indicators that plots multi time frame support
and resistance and constructs zones out of these - its discretionary but the
indicators are pretty hardcore. I have implemented a few of these in Ensign but
whilst there script language ESPL is flexible and powerful for smaller projects,
It just doesn't seen to be the tool for 'hardcore' scripting/programming - some
things run quite slow even if you optimise - and managing larger
projects/indicator suites is clunky.
As I already had the tools for TS2000i I thought I'd dust this
off. Whilst these work handling - IB data takes third party software and can be
a little flaky. Soooooo I thought I'd take a look at packages that offer solid
programming and native IB support. I was hoping also to find something that had
great drawing and visualisation (though this less important to me at this
moment) in the same package.
So I'm kinda ready to go with AB but there is one thing that I
need to find a creative solution to.
Cheers,
Nick.