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Offline charting?

  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 21, 2007 7:15pm Jul 21, 2007 7:15pm
Hey everyone!

I'm a newby and I want to create a trading system that works for me. Problem is that I don't want to be online all day long (the net is still expensive in southern africa) at least while i'm at home (Namibia) during holidays and not in Cape Town.

Before I start "real" trading I want to backtrack a system and test it on a practice account (I'll have broadband in Cape Town for that). But how can I download older data and feed it into a charting application? Are there any offline tools available that can import old data? Possibly then calculate some indicators and also display them?

Thanks a lot, greetz from the southern hemisphere!
Rainer
  • #2
  • Edited 9:02pm Jul 21, 2007 8:51pm | Edited 9:02pm
Quoting rdrey
Hey everyone!

I'm a newby and I want to create a trading system that works for me. Problem is that I don't want to be online all day long (the net is still expensive in southern africa) at least while i'm at home (Namibia) during holidays and not in Cape Town.

Before I start "real" trading I want to backtrack a system and test it on a practice account (I'll have broadband in Cape Town for that). But how can I download older data and feed it into a charting application? Are there any offline tools available that can import old data? Possibly then calculate some indicators and also display them?

Thanks a lot, greetz from the southern hemisphere!
Rainer
Yes, Metatrader can do this using the History tab
Also AmiBroker does this very well and you can get the data free from yahoo, as much as you want when you sign up for the Amibroker program.
Also Tradestation does this.

But if you want it free, MT4 would be my choice as there are so many indicators available for it on this and other forums and it also has a rich library of it's own.
  • #3
  • Edited 7:23am Jul 22, 2007 7:06am | Edited 7:23am
thanks a lot! I'll try those!

edit: OK, cool: MT4 is Metatrader version 4?
  • #4
  • Last Post: Jul 22, 2007 7:27am Jul 22, 2007 7:27am
Quoting rdrey
thanks a lot! I'll try those!

edit: OK, cool: MT4 is Metatrader version 4?
Yes
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