TradersStudio: the best Systems testing software?
I should say “Yes” as I decided to purchase, and now own TradersStudio. For the price ($499), it offers a very decent package for developing and testing automated trading systems. Why I chose...
View Articlee-ratio calculation in TradersStudio and Excel
Here is one method to implement an e-ratio calculation. As we say in developerspeak, the following is a quick and dirty approach to calculating the e-ratio. But as far as I am concerned, it does the...
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How can Walk-Forward testing keep your system a step ahead?
Out-of-Sample testing is a necessary practice to avoid curve-fitting during the optimisation of a trading system. Walk-Forward testing improves on the idea of out-of-sample data testing and is designed...
View ArticleAmibroker e-ratio code
I recently posted about the e-ratio as a tool to measure parts of a trading system (the code files to compute the e-ratio in TradersStudio and Excel are also available). The e-ratio is supposed to be a...
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Amibroker V. TradersStudio: Speed comparison Fight
It might not capture the imagination as much as the recent Haye v. Valuev WBA World Heavyweight Championship fight (it probably might for some of you… ;-) but I decided to organise my own “fight”:...
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Amibroker vs TradersStudio: comparison
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded Amibroker to see if it could compute the e-ratio much faster than TradersStudio (it did!). The result of the speed comparison is there and the Amibroker code for the...
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How to decide on a Backtesting and Trading Platform
As an automated trader you probably need the following components: Broker Account – The starting point to trade in the markets Live Market Data – To feed to your trading robot so that it can generate...
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How-To: CSI Data into TradersStudio
Dear readers, I hope you enjoyed the holiday break. I wish you a happy New Year – may it bring you progress and success in your automated trading endeavours! I wanted to start this year with an idea I...
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Thinking of buying Trading Blox?
Well, I am… Regular readers might think that I suffer from backtesting-software-indecision-itis. Having first settled for TradersStudio, I then evaluated (and purchased) AmiBroker and found that it was...
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