C# on cTrader is a serious workshop
cTrader Automate is free with supported brokers and gives you a real IDE. If you like C#, want cBots, and your firm is on cTrader, stay and write. That workshop is honest.
Island lock-in versus the MT5 prop world
Most of the firms in Venasri’s orbit still live on MT5. Building a news blackout, tilt monitor, and multi-TF structure engine in C# is a sabbatical. Buying Pro is an afternoon.
If you are committed to cTrader forever, this alternative is only about the fuse and ML lab you would still have to code. If you can pick MT5, you can skip the sabbatical.
Six strategies in three clicks
You can still write C# for fun. Do not make a challenge wait on a compile.
When to stay in the IDE
Quant shops with cTrader brokers and a C# bench should stay. Solo funded traders with an MT5 login should not start a cBot to avoid a $29.99 fuse.
The alternative is not “C# is bad.” It is “your island and your timeline.”
