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Fidelity - when it was turbo pascal
If you want more WL users, I would partner up with a stock trading educational group that needs a powerful simulation tool (such as WL). I would then have that training group frequent programming forums for WL students. Why do I say this?
1) WeathLab's strongest feature is it's object oriented programming design/framework. And that's great for OOPs programmers.
2) WeathLab's weakest feature is teaching users Technical Analysis. Complete documentation with "integrated" examples is another weak area. That's what the third-party technical-analysis training group can work on.
There is a statistical analysis component that's missing to. That requires more education and more analytical tools. You need both. Most WL users don't know the difference between classical moment-base statistics and robust statistics. And why the latter is better for stock trading. (It's kind of scary.)
1) WeathLab's strongest feature is it's object oriented programming design/framework. And that's great for OOPs programmers.
2) WeathLab's weakest feature is teaching users Technical Analysis. Complete documentation with "integrated" examples is another weak area. That's what the third-party technical-analysis training group can work on.
There is a statistical analysis component that's missing to. That requires more education and more analytical tools. You need both. Most WL users don't know the difference between classical moment-base statistics and robust statistics. And why the latter is better for stock trading. (It's kind of scary.)
I’ve got a funny story about this. I heard one youtuber, a die-hard manual trader, say that WL is the best software out there but even with it, his team of programmers couldn’t build profitable bots. I checked it out myself and the software seemed perfect for my needs.
But if you just start googling trading programs, you’d never come across WL.
But if you just start googling trading programs, you’d never come across WL.
Wow I’d love to see that video, can you remember what channel that was?
Fidelity. About 2008.
Became an active user when you switched to C#.
Became an active user when you switched to C#.
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if you just start googling trading programs, you’d never come across WL.
The WL website has poor SEO rank because it doesn't encourage enough outgoing and incoming links. In addition, the links need to be descriptive and relevant about what they are linking to. (And as a webmaster, you already know this.)
You might want to start by contacting other relevant webmasters and establishing reciprocal links on their and your websites.
The harder question is how important is SEO page rank (i.e. organic search-engine discovery) to your product? I was webmaster to a social group, and I can say it was very important. But the WL product isn't a social group, so importance may differ.
I just Googled "backtesting trading strategies" and I don't see WL listed anywhere. But we know that's because WealthLab's website is isolated. And I always thought that's the way they wanted it; the WL website lacks any kind of outgoing links to any high page-rank trading resources.
QUOTE:I remember the channel, but I can't find the video anymore. And it's not in English.
Wow I’d love to see that video, can you remember what channel that was?
QUOTE:SEO is very expensive these days, especially in commercial niches like trading, and it's still impossible to outperform the big players. In my opinion, the right way to promote is through Reddit and various trading forums.
The harder question is how important is SEO page rank (i.e. organic search-engine discovery) to your product? I was webmaster to a social group, and I can say it was very important. But the WL product isn't a social group, so importance may differ.
For me it was when you created the connector to Tradestation and I was finally to the point of a necessary change.
@cone has me to blame for a number of revisions back when the connector was V1.
Recently as a thought experiment, I fired up the Tradestation app and tried to run a scan to look for a certain set of criteria. Slid it over to the side and let it run. Did the same on WL and was done with multiple iterations and my answer long before TS got to 15%.
@cone has me to blame for a number of revisions back when the connector was V1.
Recently as a thought experiment, I fired up the Tradestation app and tried to run a scan to look for a certain set of criteria. Slid it over to the side and let it run. Did the same on WL and was done with multiple iterations and my answer long before TS got to 15%.
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the right way to promote is through Reddit and various trading forums.
And that's the point. If the WeathLab team wanted better page rank, they would start a "generalized" trading forum about trading techniques and tools (including third-party tools). That would bring in lots of organic traffic and page rank to their website. Some of those visitors would then explore the rest of their site.
For the social dance website I was running, Google Analytics counted 800 to 1000 inbound hits per day. But only 30% of those were from the state of Iowa (which is where we are located). Most other visitors are their for the resources, but they will still explore the rest of our website. By making a website into a "resource", you achieve high page rank. But we never got more than 100 social dancers to any of our local dances.
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