Hedge fund / stock trading

[albertovirgi]

Anyone can recommend a software for trading and portfolio managing? thx

[waregim]

This would probably be available from the exchange services you signed up with. You cant just trade stocks without a corporate account with a corp with a seat on the stock exchange.

That said, the heady days of day trading are over. The advent of the quants, means there are supercomputer programs out there to front run and any every trade you can make from your PC.

[arainc]

Brokerages will usually have their own software. But AmiBroker, SierraChart, and MultiCharts are 3 that come to mind. Forex is dominated by Metatrader.

That said, the heady days of day trading are over. The advent of the quants, means there are supercomputer programs out there to front run and any every trade you can make from your PC.

I disagree. ultra hft might require leasing server space directly with exchange/liquidity pool. But most people can still daytrade/swing trade with a VPS and get <1ms latency. Even <10ms or 100ms latency is plenty for any strategy that is not nanosecond-dependent. You can still latency arb some markets with < 10ms.

This idea that you are either ultra-HFT or nothing isn't taking into account all the different types of speculation taught in Market Microstructure for Practitioners (L. Harris)