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Joined Sep 2005
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Status: Risk Merchant
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I'm playing with Amibroker at the moment, while not free it's extremly cheap compared to what's out there. You need to provide it with data, which you can export out of metatrader. It has portfolio testing, and is very fast. I know all this from hearsay, as I am currently writing my first strategy.
From a programming perspective you'll find it different to other systems as it uses arrays a lot. It is essentially vector based algorithims. If you ever user "R" then you'll understand. This is what makes it so quick.
Regards,
In trading you are only as smart as your dumbest mistake. - Ralph Vince
Thanks, im curently downloading amibroker to give it a try.. anyone else here has done backtesting on any other software and like to recommend.. I hear e-signal is good? Anyone has experience with it?
If you want to MANUALLY backtest all you need is a chart, and pen and paper. If you want to simplify the process with metatrader, you can use this to manually backtest a strategy.
