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Not much. I think there are open source kits out there. Since I would be risking my own cash anyway, and doing all the config work. Unless you can provide some proven edge or advantage

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Yes if it included options. Most trading platforms are only stock, futures, or forex. Stocks and the like you have to be 100% directional, options on the other hand give you way more strategies that would be great to be able to automate from a trading platform. Especially if you had the ability to back test strategies and update your models over time, and adjust the option strategies. Or even the ability to combine options with another asset class like stock, futures, or pairs trading.

If someone created a platform like this with its own scripting language and REST api it would be like nothing available today.

Reasons why you would create a new scripting language that nobody is familiar with rather than using an existing language that at least some people would be familiar with?

I guess I went that direction because Thinkorswim and most other platforms all developed their own scripting language, but reflecting now I think something simple that everyone knows like Python or JavaScript lib/sdk would be a better approach.

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