Automated Trading - What you need

Here is few items you need to automate your trading
1) You have a basic idea about stock markets and trading manually around some specific method/idea
2) Basic understanding of software programming
3) Softwares like excel spreadsheet, Microsoft access to start with or oracle, weblogic server, or custom software like amibroker(These are the ones I use, I started with basic microsoft applications and found that they sucked for back testing performance and used oracle and weblogic, which runs really fast but requires a dedicated machine preferably, the startup time of a pc with oracle installed is very long. Currently I use amibroker for most of the time, this has a cool front end and super fast back testing capabilities.
4) historical data from stock market(at least for 2 years)

Happy Republic Day

Indian markets are closed today. Happy Republic Day to all.

Gold Gold Gold

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Company Review - Infosys Technologies Ltd

     When you write about Indian stock markets, Infosys technologies Ltd(NSE - INFOSYSTCH, Nasdaq - INFY) is one of the companies you always see on the top of the lists. It is like google for US markets.
Many reasons why I wanted to write about this company here.

1.  I have worked with this company for more than 5 years!(as a matter of fact the longest employment I had so far). 
2.  This is the first security I owned
3.  I had no interest in stock market and I was forced to buy the stock as I had stock options at good profit.
4. Very capable management and ability to see the control of future, First in many new initiatives which became a standard later
5. IT at its best, I experienced the impact of IT on a daily basis, in terms of new technologies and quality.

I don't have any positions now because most of my trades are in the mid cap sector now.