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Updated May 2, 2012 by j...@pracplay.com

Start and configure your broker software and broker connector.
Start Quotopia from TradeLink programs group in Start menu
In the Markets tab, type a symbol to receive a quote. The format of the symbols depends on the broker.
Double click symbol to get order ticket and submit a market order
You can verify that your order was filled on Trades tab
Go back to markets tab, double click symbol to get ticket.
Submit a limit order off the market
Go to the Orders tab and right click and cancel your order
To make automated trades, see the Response quick-start.

Start and configure your broker software and broker connector.
Start ASP from TradeLink programs group in start menu
Click 'L' button to choose a response library, from which you will choose a strategy
Browse to Responses.dll in folder you installed TradeLink (typically Program Files\TradeLink\)
Choose OK
Select a response to trade from drop down. Choose 'Quotelet'
In Quotelet window, enter a symbol and click new.
You should see quotes appear. Click buy and sell to send orders for symbol.
This is an example of a grey-box trading application.
Open another quotelet window by re-choosing quotelet from ASP response list
enter a new symbol in resulting window to get a new quote

Start and configure your broker software and broker connector.
Start ASP from TradeLink programs group in start menu
Click 'L' button to choose a response library, from which you will choose a strategy
Browse to Responses.dll in folder you installed TradeLink (typically Program Files\TradeLink\)
Choose OK
Choose SMAresponse from the drop-down list for the library (or whatever response you want to trade... AlwaysEnter, Tutorials, etc)
You should be careful not to do this on a live trading account.
You will see your response appear below as an active response.
Select this instance from active list.
Right click and choose 'edit symbols'.
Enter a symbol this response should trade (e.g. IBM)
Choose OK.
You will see those symbols appear next to your response.
From this point your response will act according to its instructions.
Open the debug window to see messages from all active responses.
If you chose AlwaysEnter, you should see positions continually entered and exited in the symbol you traded on.
If you chose SMA response, you will see it enter trades on MA crossovers.
To remove a remove, right click and do remove.
To stop trading all responses, close ASP.

Start Replay from TradeLink programs group in start menu
Select a trading day to play back.
Sample data provided is for 9/26/2007. Select this date
Click play.
Open Quotopia. On the Markets tab, type the following symbols, pressing Enter after each (yes, we know this isn't exactly standard UX behavior): ibm, wag, frx, fti
You should begin to see quotes for each symbol
You will not see quotes for IBM because no sample data is provided for IBM on this day.
Start ASP from the Tradelink programs group in the Start Menu
Choose Responses.dll from the location you installed TradeLink in
Select Quotelet from the drop-down of available responses
Enter 'WAG' as symbol in the Quotelet window and click 'New'
You will see quotes that are same as any other Tradelink programs receive for WAG
Click 'buy' to buy 100 shares of WAG historically
In Quotopia, check position size column for WAG.
You will see that the 100 share fill from the Quotelet window was reflected in Quotopia
Choose the AlwaysEnter response from ASP's responses drop-down
Right click the AlwaysEnter created in the active responses list, choose Edit symbols and enter FRX as symbol
In Quotopia you will see automated trades occurring for FRX.

Start Gauntlet (start->programs->tradelink->gauntlet)
In the Options tab, choose the response library button
Browse to Responses.dll in the location you installed TradeLink in (usually c:\program files\tradelink). Choose OK.
Click a response to test in drop-down. Select AlwaysEnter
Click symbol and choose a symbol to trade. All dates for this symbol will be tested.
Click run the gauntlet
When simulation is complete, check the Results tab for a summary of the performance.
Click the Raw Results Folder button in the Studies tab to see the raw trades file (assuming you have 'generate trades as CSV' (?? this is no longer there) checked in the Options tab)
Look for the trade file with the name of your response and the present time
Double-click to open in Excel the list of trades that occured

Start kadina, start->programs->tradelink->kadina
From Add Response menu, browse to Responses.dll in the folder you installed TradeLink in
Choose 1SMAResponseAuto` from pop-up window. Press Ok.
Open the tick data folder from Start -> Programs -> Tradelink -> Tick data
Browse to WAG20070926.TIK file in this folder
Drag and drop this file onto the Kadina window. The filename should appear in window title.
Click a duration button to play through the market. E.g. click the 1hour button to play through next hour of data. Each time you click it, Kadina will play through the next hour.
View raw time and sales data in the Ticks tab, view response indicators for same time in the Indicators tab
Orders, fills and positions occur on their own tab
You can use this to troubleshoot what is happening in response at a given time
Play to the problem time, then use the indicators and other output from the response to determine how the response is being affected by incoming data and the current state of the internal data.

this video comes from the tutorials section

The easiest way to develop a strategy is to work from the examples
When installing TradeLink, you have the option to install an IDE and the response examples
Assuming you installed the IDE and response examples, you may edit the responses in TradeLink.
Edit responses by going to Start -> Programs -> TradeLink -> Response examples
When you are done editing, click the Build button. Or go to Project -> Build.
Building the response project creates a DLL which you can then open as a response library in Kadina, Asp or Gauntlet.
If you are unsure of the location of the DLL file created, click the 'output' window after building. It will list the full path of the DLL. (View -> Windows -> Output)
For further information on responses, see the TradeLink Response Tutorial and the Response Reference Guide.

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