I am a software developer working in the field of healthcare, and both my job and my ongoing PhD has strong focus on machine learning and probabilistic computation.
I wanted to find out about the way algorithmic trading works (not hft though) with a more hands on approach, and after some research, NinjaTrader came out as the best option as a research workbench.
However, the data provider side of things is a bit confusing. I am looking for a data provider for mainly stock data, and forex would be a nice addition. Obviously, historical data would be really nice.
There are many brokers/providers out there, but so far I could not find one that offers the following:
1) a time limitless demo/virtual account for stocks
2) Usable by NinjaTrader.
I am going to work on the topic as a hobby, and I'll probably not touch it for weeks some times, so having a demo account that does not expire would be nice.Obviously, the finer grained the quotes are, the better, etc etc.
Is there a broker/data source that fits the definition above?
Regards
Seref
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