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You've pretty much summed up my entire feelings at the moment. Its ironic that it seems so easy to learn about the theory (the bit that makes people money) and so hard to learn about the systems (the bit that makes other people money).


Most of my time at the moment is spent sussing out the different brokers and charting tools etc. Had a play with the demo version of AmiBroker the other day. Daunting at first but sure enough by trial an error my playstation generations skills left me feeling somewhat able to navigate around it. The coding part of it seems very extensive but having done a few C programming courses as part of engineering, (before I got jack of it and switched to finance) it appears familiar. Even somewhat resembles excel functions.


Have a look at TraderDealer. If you were into day trading, I can't find a broker that matches them for price. They have this funky pricing structure where you can round trip to your hearts content and only get charged once. To me that sounds great for someone starting with minimal capital who can't afford to erode profits on brokerage.


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