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[FX Robot Man] Forex MegaDroid Backtest : FX Robot Man: I still think that Forex MegaDroid may be worth a try as long as you keep in mind that you very well might want to ask for your money back if it doesn’t generate at least a 10% return before the money-back guarantee expires. I know many of my readers pretty much hate or won’t go near any Clickbank products because of their well deserved bad reputation, but if you can look past all of the over hyped marketing crap, there just might be something underneath the hood with MegaDroid.

[Milk Trader] Milk Trader: Backtesting the Bumblebee (Part One): Backtesting will show that a system either has the potential to be a traded with real money or is nothing more than whimsical fantasy. If you suspect your trading idea is whimsical fantasy, then you may choose to keep it somewhere safe, because this is going to get a little rough.

[ITalkCash.com - Forum for financial investments] Positional Trading using Intraday charts: Profits – Well before following this practically, I did mock trading for 1 month and found excellent response from my strategy. However, practically doing overnight positional trades very initially difficult and I was getting carried always by analysts on TV channels.

[FX Robot Man] Forex MegaDroid Backtest: MegaDroid - $500 Starting Balance - 20% Risk Level. Just for the sake of comparative visualization, here is a quick Excel chart comparing the equity curves for these 3 back test sessions: Forex MegaDroid Back Test Equity Curves .

[Automated Trader Magazine Bootstrap Articles RSS News Feed] Online | Develop Cleaning Algorithms from "Quality Money ...: The purpose of this step is to take the manually built cleaning algorithms (probably done in Excel) and convert them into tools that can be used by junior people, with well-defined GUIs and outputs along with algorithms that can be manually run against the entire database. The cleaning algorithms at this point should be viewed as prototypes.

[FX Robot Man] Gomega Xray Review : FX Robot Man: and are grateful for the non biased review you gave the XRAY and will be looking into how we can improve the trading for someone with a small trading account. We will not be offering the Xray in the future to the public and have been looking into how we can improve what we have been giving our clients with some possitive results in forward testing and will be updating them with new settins in the next week.

[Great Trading Systems] Hooya Bands Day Trading System | Great Trading Systems: For me, I created a direction indicator in excel with OHLC data that used a formula like:-. “if yesterdays high is greater than the previous days open and yesterdays close is greater than previous days low then Long; if not then short” ... I would however suggest that before you start trading live do back test (by hand) at least 100-200 trading days before you use real money on this system. It requires confidence in the numbers to walk away and not close out trades before ...

[Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum] market data? - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum: OTC and exchange-traded instruments worldwide. Basically everything that has passed across their Integrated Data Network.

[Forex Learning Blog] How to build and backtest a robust trading system | Forex Learning ...: Whenever you optimize a forex trading system using the values identified by backtesting, ask yourself two questions: First, could you predict the same result from the trading strategy itself, without looking at the data? For example, if your forex trading system follows a trend, it obviously will not perform so well in a ranging market.

[abitare's Blog] A Sampler Intro to Jamie Gritton's BackTest.org: I have read all the examples on the backtest.org site, I have done several Google searches (which lead me to the post I am replying to), I have downloaded and studied the Excel sheets from Radish which are helpful to a degree, but use the standard backtest.org screens that contain Timeliness. What I need are are examples of the URLs containing code built from the ground up (ie, that does not use those pre-built backtest screens).

[Matt Trivisonno's Blog] Matt Trivisonno's Blog » Blog Archive » Pow! Right to the Moon!: And the more contracts it trades, the lower commissions go with TradeStation’s bulk-rates. With enough volume I would buy a seat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and cut commissions to the bone, which will free-up even more capital for trading…

[MarketSci Blog] Varadi's RSI(2) Alternative: The DV(2) « MarketSci Blog: 17 marketsci on July 22, 2009 said: RE to Brad: thanks for the kind words. If the strategy was using stops, then it didn't come from me (I don't do intraday tests like that).

[System Trading with Woodshedder] No Wonder 95% of All Traders Blow Up | System Trading with Woodshedder: There is NO EDGE to shorting the SPY at today’s close, but you wouldn’t know that from listening to the myriad emotional train-wrecks who call themselves traders. No wonder 95% of all traders blow up.

[Paul Krugman] Another note on short-term pseudo-trends - Paul Krugman Blog ...: I ran the data through another program, and finally a simple Excel chart to confirm, and in each case, the data appear to be there when viewing the standard time VS Temperature graph, but prove to be false when viewed relative to the averages. This problem is very obvious on a seasonally adjusted chart, as it appears as a row of straight zeros in otherwise normal data.

[MarketSci Blog] Moving Average Crossovers Debunked? « MarketSci Blog: Whenever I do a report like this I inevitably get the “yeah, but I don’t use 50/200-day SMAs, I use 47/193-day weighted moving averages, blah, blah, blah.” Look, I’ve tested a gazillion combinations and my conclusion holds true across the board. If you have something in particular that you think breaks this mold, let me know and I’ll run it through the paces.

[Hedge Fund Job Blog - Alpha Calling] Hedge Fund Job Blog - Alpha Calling » Blog Archive » Hedge Fund ...: At the most junior level, a trading assistant would perform a support role for trader or senior trader at a hedge fund. This person would need a college degree, excellent math and Excel skills, and would probably have worked as a summer intern on a trading desk, either on the sell side or buy side.

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