Custom backtesting code

Quoting therf

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Hi all, newbie here. Looking at rolling my own code (C/C++/Python/MySQL etc.) to backtest a few strategies over 1 min tick data. Just curious as to how many of you have gone this route or do most people rely on the backtesting capabilities of 3rd party software (such as MT4)?

TIA
Marc

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Quoting SliverB

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If you look on some of the other forums you will see that MT4 backtesting is seen as unreliable. If you own MT4 you will notice that once every couple of weeks you get a new version. Maybe one day one of those versions would be considered reliable.

If you are interested in using indicators in your code check out ta-lib.org, it is an open source TA library. I've used it in Excel and Perl. Yes you can do backtesting in Excel, you may find it easier to get something going quickly. Although somethings really need code.

Regards,

Sliver

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Quoting SliverB

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If you look on some of the other forums you will see that MT4 backtesting is seen as unreliable. If you own MT4 you will notice that once every couple of weeks you get a new version. Maybe one day one of those versions would be considered reliable.

If you are interested in using indicators in your code check out ta-lib.org, it is an open source TA library. I've used it in Excel and Perl. Yes you can do backtesting in Excel, you may find it easier to get something going quickly. Although somethings really need code.

Regards,

Sliver

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Quoting narafa

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If I may ask, how can we backtest in excel tick by tick?? For example, let's say that I have a trading system which uses the 1 hour chart for setups, entries and exits, it must be backtested on tick by tick data rather than 1 hour data...The question is, how to get tick by tick data in excel format for long time frames, e.g. 2 years of tick by tick (Accurate Data of course) ???

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Quoting narafa

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If I may ask, how can we backtest in excel tick by tick?? For example, let's say that I have a trading system which uses the 1 hour chart for setups, entries and exits, it must be backtested on tick by tick data rather than 1 hour data...The question is, how to get tick by tick data in excel format for long time frames, e.g. 2 years of tick by tick (Accurate Data of course) ???


Thanks,

Nader

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Quoting firehorse

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Hi,Free tick data from ratedata.gaincapital.com.

Otherwise the only other source of tick data is olsen which is expensive.

Best regards
Alan

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Quoting therf

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Ok, I know this is probably the wrong thread to post this. But as a followup to my above queries I started a thread about data from disktrading.com. Looks as though it was deleted. Any ideas why? I am in no way related to that site or promoting it, just have the data from a previous project and was curious as to any issues/experiences by others with this data. Apologies in advance if this violates forum rules, but I did read them and didn't feel my post was inappropriate.

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Quoting diallist

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Hi therf. Thanks for asking. Your thread was moved to the classifieds forum by one of the moderators because of forum rule #2, shown below for your convenience.

At any rate, welcome to the factory. We look forward to your posts and hope you enjoy being here.

Dial

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