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Originally Posted by vladv
WHAT IS wealth lab,anyway?  I'm kinda newbie around here.....
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Hi. The vast majority of development has concerned stocks though you can trade futures and forex with it though it is not as 'easy' to do. There are a huge amount of strategies available free-of-charge to download, again the majority being stock trading strategies. If you can't code to save your life, it has a 'Wizard' built-in which allows anyone to turn out completely usable 'wealth scripts' so you can start testing out your ideas straight away. The backtester is also a major plus as it seems to be universally well respected. One thing, the majority of strategies available are EOD - the plus side to this is that there seem to be lots of profitable EOD stock strategies available. The cons: - backtests can be slow as its' scripts are 'interpreted' as opposed to compiled like in MT. The biggest problem concerns automation. If you reside in the US of A and take out an account with Fidelity, automating strategies should not be a problem as the API etc. is already built into Wealthlab ('cos Fidelity owns Wealthlab). It is much trickier if you live elsewhere or want to use a different broker. There is an adapter available to buy which works very well with Interactive Brokers plus one or two offerings available for free but require a lot more work (read re-coding). Nothing as easy as we have it with MT though where it's just a case of picking the 'best' broker...
Hope this helps.