Hello everyone

I am a complete novice in online trading but I consider myself an experienced C# developer and have studied the concepts of derivatives, trading, stocks etc in some depth. After reading Wealth-Lab 5 user guide for the past week, programming strategies seems like the most interesting and relevant part to me. I still don't know what needs to be done to be able to actually trade in a (which?) market (any links or references will be highly appreciated!). Should I trade in London Stock Exchange as I live in UK?

Most importantly, I am confused as to what should be my next step. What would you recommend?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Extrovert Ogre,
I am just like you. However I downloaded and installed Wealth lab Pro almost 1 year ago. I printed out the 5.1 book. I am still trying to figure out what I am doing. Here are a few things I learned... and an approach you can use to figure out what is happening here.
First: I created a Buy at Limit and Sell at Profit Target strategy using the "Drag and Drop" method. Then because I am a C# programmer I turned it into code for study and testing. (The backtesting says I was profitable, but what does that mean?)

CODE:
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Third I am in the process of observing and drawing conclusions.
A). It appears this piece of code runs continously.
B). I had tried to add custom parameters such as the earnings announcement dates as there is stock price movement arround the date. The X-Dividend date follows the same pattern for corporate bonds.
I came up with these basic questions...
I). How do I define a bar measurement as a minute, 5 minute, etc..
II). How do I combine of the many pre-programmed stratigies into actionable code that I can create an entry/exit for?
III). How do I use the underlying (BP) and have my Wealth Lab strategy trade trade the derivative (-BP100918C40)?
IV). How do I add custom data elements around a security that serve as trigger points for possible trading opportunities. Some data points are X Dividend Date, 30 days before X Dividend Date, a High price within that 30 day window., etc ..

Maybe the newer version (Version 6) has better documentation around these areas.

Cheers!

Andrew, please use the CODE tags (a button that you can find near to Bold,Italic etc. when adding a new post) to make your code nicely formatted and readable.

A) What exactly appears on the screen when it appears that it runs continuously?

I - What do you mean? Be specific please.
II - Again, not clear what's that.
III - Use SetContext to issue trading signals on a different security for which you have the data. Is this the case with -BP100918C40?
IV - This can be a simple boolean condition. Once you compared the bar's date with e.g. ex-dividend date, you got the boolean true, and act accordingly.