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Back Testing Features

October 29, 2007 07:57 by Support

Don’t spend a dollar on a bad idea. Test before trade. Develop and back-test strategies. Use historical data to test your strategy. You can lose your money if you try to use new strategies right away with real money.

 

Strategy Creation Corresponding Help Topic

Strategies are created on C# or Visual Basic languages. Thanks to our unique automatic service code generator you don't have to know how to program on these languages. Only very easy language syntax contractions are required. Strategy creation just can't be easier. It's just as easy as in TradeStation EasyLanguage*.

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See "Strategies and Indicators Creation" tab for more information.

 

 
Strategy Back-Testing on Historical Data

Strategies can be runned against historical data prior using them on real market. This lets you test your ideas and minimize risks.

 

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Performance Reports Corresponding Help TopicCorresponding Tutorial

Strategy Performance Reports can be used to analyze trade orders produced by strategies during back-test. There are multitude of built-in performance marks and graphs.

 

You can create your own performance marks (report indicators) and custom graphs as easy as simple indicators.

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Optimization of Strategy Parameters Corresponding Help Topic

Each strategy can have parameters that affect it's execution. Proper optimization lets you find suitable parameter values, maximize strategy revenue, minimize drawdown and so on.

NeedForTrade Studio is supplied with brute-force optimization included.

 

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Optimization target function can be specified so you can optimize strategy against any criterion (e.g. maximize). Creating target function is easy as simple creating indicator.

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Also you can create your own optimization algorithm. In each case you will not need to learn difficult programming aspects due to our automatic service code generation.

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Portfolio Optimization

NeedForTrade Studio is capable to optimize parameters of strategies applied to a portfolio with any number of symbols.

*Microsoft .NET Framework, TradeStation, EasyLanguage and other are registered trademarks of their respective owners.


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