I ran the 14 day trial for TradeBolt to a broker. This is my opinion of the service:

1) Setup was a snap; they had pretty clear setup instructions on their site, I made a couple of calls about things I didn't get. I tweaked nothing.

2) I was away almost the entire day during the times it ran, without a hitch. Seemed very stable and well thought out. I accepted pretty much all their defaults

3) The several C2 services I ran through it were very simplistic orders, having high realisms. As many have said, don't try to scalp the market this way.

4) It sets itself to stop autotrading according to my close of market instructions (4:15pm, EST). If I remember, you need to turn it back on for after hours.

5) Disconnects:

-- A few times daily it lost contact with C2. They averaged about 3 seconds only, and didn't affect trading. I ran it day and night, just to see.

-- Later on in the test period, I got some kind of disconnect a number of times, averaging perhaps 3-7 minutes each. As I recollect, some kind of put, post data or something like that. Still don't know what caused this. So I:

6) Customer service - I reported a problem to their tech support and they said they would investigate, but never bothered getting back to me on it.

7) Fills - seemed reasonable. I cross checked some of the fills, and they didn't seem to have much slippage ON AVERAGE. I was trading a 50,000 test account and doing under 10 contracts per trade.

8) Overall, happy with TradeBolt. of course, this was not real money placed; the trial was simulation mode only. I may get the occasional missed trade, but I felt it would allow me to get most of the trades, and still have a day job. I am not someone who wants to sit there and constantly tweak and worry about everything.

9) My understanding is that I pay a small charge per side. This could be expensive if trading a lot of eminis. This could be many hundreds to thousands a month for heavy traders. The flat fee of TradeBullet might be preferable.

10) BUT I still would prefer something that did not depend on the fragile C2->autotrade software->broker depending on the frail home internet connection. Are you listening, TradeBolt, TradeBullet, others?? This should be server based, with me in total charge of the operations & settings.

I suggest you do the TradeBolt trial to your broker, and get a feel for it. Costs nothing to try, and it is in simulation mode, so nothing risked...