I don’t have a lot of time to post right now but I use Trade Station. I avoided it for years because I thought it would be expensive but it isn’t. I trade options, futures and currency futures. I got into automated systems years ago using NinjaTrader (C# language) but whenever I had an idea for an automated system, I had to hire a programmer to program it without even knowing if it would be profitable so I didn’t. Now, with Tradestation, they use “easylanguage” which is based on FORTRAN and easy to learn. The reason I switched to Trade station was because I had an idea for an automated system for trading options, and Trade Station is the only platform that supports automated options trading. I’ll have to look but I don’t think I pay anything for data. If you make a certain amount of round turn trades, the fees are waved. I’ll post more when I can after the family vacation or you can PM me any questions you have and I’ll answer the best I can. Trade Station isn’t nearly as expensive as I thought it would be, and with a virtual private server, you can set yourself up to have a program trade the futures market 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, while you’re working, sleeping, or hanging with friends or family. There’s nothing better than connecting to your VPS and finding out you made $3-5 K overnight. The opposite can happen though and those mornings suck.