No, our software is a functionality enhancement plugin for Sierra Chart. We provide users with easy-to-use tooling to automate any trading strategy for either back testing or live trading.
Yes, our software was designed to give its users the edge in trading that isn’t achievable by click-trading. Trading multiple charts at the same time is one of the ways we achieve that.
Yes, we provide our users with a basic set of strategies to build upon and reference, however selling strategies is not our goal. What we include is purely intended to get a new user familiar with most of the ingredients that can be “baked” into a strategy for educational & quick startup value.
Octopi uses established, proven Sierra Chart order routing and brokerage integrations. For specific broker connection, please reference Sierra Charts support forum once you become a user
Yes, this is largely the reason Octopi was born. Our software allows you to sample any market indicator and base your trading decisions on the data available at the time.
This is a complex topic, but our software will absolutely fast-track anybody through hundreds and thousands of accurately simulated results, which will showcase benefits and drawbacks of any strategy a user would like tested.
Octopi’s primary design and purpose is to trade futures contracts. What kinds of contracts are up to the user, but generally if there is a contract that you can get data feed for, we can help you trade it automatically.
Any strategy produced using our software will generate consistent back testing trade results that translate directly to real-live execution.