License-for-testing-and-optimization

An extra development and testing work to get paid less? Where do I sign up? :)

This may seem ridiculous, but in the Russian market, very often robots are written in LUA directly under the QUIK trading platform. And WL is only used to find the optimal trading parameters. This way you would have more legitimate customers who didn't have to pay for all the functionality they didn't need.

Consider this perspective. If the feature request for QUIK broker provider gets enough votes, native integration of WL7 with QUIK would make the Lua scripting look ridiculous.

https://www.wealth-lab.com/Discussion/Request-a-broker-provider-for-Russian-market-QUIK-5473

The Quik connector is good, but still not perfect. There are many cases when the robot should be on the primary Quik platform. In addition, there are developers of indicators and strategies that do not trade themselves. Therefore, I think it would be logical for you to make a cheaper developer license that allows everything except real trading.
For example (1 month = $10, 1 year = $ 100, lifetime = $ 1000).
Such an approach would completely eliminate the desire to throw off hacking, as it would allow you to always have up-to-date updated software at a reasonable price.

Without diving too deep into the details, there are several factors that make "$10" subscriptions look totally unappealing to us. Lifetime licenses are no longer sold so this is out of question. The "limited" annual subscription may have some very limited value (pun intended) but have you thought about the other camp i.e. pure traders not interested in optimization?

So, current plans offer a middle ground because it's hard to please everyone without making things as complex as your proposition would do.

@Forecast01

Could you please vote for Quik connector feature request if not yet).

As for me, the pipeline where you don't have to rewrite your code for live trading is a better pipeline.

As far as I understand, in the current implementation, WL7 is not very flexible. For example, it does not allow you to open a position on the signal bar at the moment, but only on the next one. Perhaps there are other shortcomings. QLUA in this regard is much better licked.

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does not allow you to open a position on the signal bar at the moment,

Absolutely right! No software can has a crystal ball. There's no way to create a live trade in the market on data that has already in the past. The procedure is this:

1. You get data.
2. You analyze it.
3. You place signals for the next bar. (While that next bar is forming, the trades you placed based on the most recent complete bar will fill - market, limit, or stop.)

There's no other way to do it. Maybe you can rephrase it so that the statement makes more sense?

Okay, maybe I put it wrong, but the bottom line is that with the same logic, WL6 opens a trade 1 bar earlier than WL7. Maybe WL6 has a crystal ball ? ))

No, it's that you might have either written the WL6 code in a peeking manner or overlooked something in its translation to WL7.

However, let's stop offtopic talks with Lua and crystall ball stuff. If you have further questions please start a new topic.