It would be interesting to know the results of some benchmark comparisons
between the various testing programs - C-trader, Tradestation, Multicharts,
Amibroker, Wealthlab, Ninja, etc. Maybe there's discussion topic on
Elitetrader.com already.

Rather than embarking on a the learning curve for a new system development
environment, just upgrade your hardware.
The buy a faster machine - quad core, 4 Ghz, RAID, 16Gb tri-channnel RAM , etc.
But if the software does not take advantage of the hardware, and only runs
single-threaded processes, there's little to be gained.

The main benefit of c-trader is that the source is open. If the feature is not
there, you can always code it. And since it's pure C/C++, the main speed
limitation is not the environment, but the programming skill of the developer.

--- In scientific-traders@yahoogroups.com, "cohndw" <minimax9999@...> wrote:
>
> jhess314,
>
> Thanks for the extensive research on TradeStation in terms of how it works. I
am an experienced TradeStation user and fully agree with all that you say below.
My questions to the forum were to verify the expected performance improvement
when switching to C-Trader Pro.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Dave
>