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At the present time there is no trading order support for
Transact/Infinity. The brokerage integration features of Investor/RT
currently operate with Interactive Brokers, Zen-Fire, and Rithmic.
Support for Transact/Infinity may appear later this year.These brokerage
features are designed to provide what you may call "trading from the
charts", where signals and button clicks are employed to initiate
trading actions. Feedback on current position, average fill price, and
working order size and price levels is provided in the charts
automatically. "Automated Trading" or "Automatic Trading" is something
entirely different and is not the focus of this design. Some degree of
automation can be achieved with signal markers or reference
line/trendline breaks that trigger signal actions which in turn can fire
a trading order. These features are designed for attended operation and
require careful setup and testing using the trading simulator before
deployment. If you license the trading system tools to develop and
backtest your own trading systems, a trading system could be further
adapted to run with live real-time data (or playback) embedded in a
chart using the Trading System Indicator. While more automation is
theoretically possible using these advanced tools, they were not
designed with live trading in mind. Trading system rules that work well
when backtesting require modification (to consider real position status
for example) before they can be used in the context of real or simulated
brokerage activity. The trading system indicator is designed to work
in the theoretical world where there is an immediate fill at some
theoretical price when some signal occurs and this model does not adapt
easily to real trading scenarios where orders may fill at some later
time.
Long answer to a short question, but I say all this to make clear that
Investor/RT is not designed to be and does not claim to be a live
trading automation system. Anyone trying to use the software in this way
should proceed with much care and thorough testing using the built-in
trading simulator. |