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Major IQBroker Overhaul - Progress Report
The IQBroker team is currently working on a major new build that will greatly simplify the process of setting up your portfolio. The new build has a shiny new user interface, that is a lot more intuitive, and very easy to use. Data will be streamed on-demand and will no longer require complicated data source setups. In addition, the new build also introduces powerful feature rich charts that have all of the features you'd expect in a modern trading platform. Below are some initial screenshots of the new overhaul build:
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The Leading Automated Trading Platform for Backtesting Trading Strategies
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IQBroker is a broker neutral, high frequency, automated trading platform for hedge funds, brokers and quantitative traders. The platform was designed to be the ultimate solution for backtesting, optimizing, simulating and executing automated trading strategies that trade equities, futures and FOREX. IQBroker is currently in advanced beta, but all of its features are stable and fully operational. If you're interested in joining our beta testing team please contact us at community@iqbroker.com. For business development opportunities, partnerships and investor relations please contact founder Yuval Tochner at yuval.tochner@iqbroker.com |
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Automated Trading
Trading Strategies Portfolio
IQBroker is a fully automated trading platform that can trade multiple trading strategies from a single integrated portfolio. Each trading strategy has its own execution environment which includes a separate data provider and a separate brokerage provider, among others.
Robust Trading Strategies
Each trading strategy can simultaneously trade thousands of equities, futures and FOREX symbols from multiple world-wide exchanges using multiple data sources, bar types and currencies.
Smart Order Types
Our automated trading platform can backtest and execute smart order types, including: market, limit, stop, stop-limit, trailing stop, market-if-touched, limit-if-touched, relative (Pegged-to-Primary),one-cancels-other, one-cancels-all, iceberg, VWAP, hidden and discretionary.
Bar Types
Trading strategies can be backtested and executed on native and custom bar types, such as tick bars, range bars, momentum bars, change bars, renko bars, volume bars and time frame bars, ranging from 1 second to 1 month.
Backtesting and Optimization
Multicore 32-bit and 64-bit Support
IQBroker has a very powerful, blazing fast, backtesting engine that can backtest and optimize a portfolio of trading strategies. The platform supports both 32-bit and 64-bit multicore architectures, enabling it to utilize all of your server’s processors and memory.
Performance Results
Once backtesting is complete our automated trading platform produces an extensive simulation report, which includes a rich performance summary and dozens of charts.
Portfolio Level Backtesting
A single trading strategy can both process one symbol at a time or multiple symbols at a time, enabling you to backtest and execute portfolio level trading strategies.
Parameter Optimization
Our automated trading platform can optimize the script parameters of an entire portfolio in order to meet any custom optimization goal. The platform supports custom optimization algorithms such as: Walk-Forward, Brute-Force, Monte-Carlo and Genetic.
C# and VB.NET Scripting
.NET Framework 4.0
IQBroker scripts are written in C# and VB.NET using .NET Framework 4.0 and our integrated development environment. Our IDE has advanced editing capabilities, including automated parameter completion, function lists and code highlighting.
Robust API
Our automated trading platform's API has over 400 functions that are grouped into 22 easy-to-use libraries. You can view the API in our detailed programmer's guide.
15 Script Types
Our automated trading platform features 15 different types of scripts:
Advanced Tools
Charts
IQBroker automatically creates an advanced financial chart for each one of the symbols that were assigned to your portfolio. These charts can be accessed and manipulated directly from the portfolio's trading strategies using a designated API.
Supported chart types include candlesticks, OHLC bars, HiLo bars, candlevolume, equivolume, line and volume, among others.
Watchlists
Each one of your trading strategies is assigned a single watchlist over all of its symbols. The watchlist is used for streaming level 1 market data in addition to viewing the strategy's open positions.
Heat Maps
Heat maps are a special type of chart that graphically displays the correlation between market performance and the existence of certain trading signals.
