Recent content by Aafwintb

Once again thank you for your replies, they are of great help. To answer dufferdon's questions: 1. I would go back to the original question and ask what is meant by "robust"? What is it exactly that you are worried about? WHAT I MEAN BY ROBUST : is my system catches the same type of...

Thank you all for your advice. I understand about R multiples and calculating expectancies, I have read Vans books several times over. My system is based on trading retracements, using a 20 and 50 simple ma to determine the trend, and pullbacks in the RSI for entry. I was wondering wheter...

Gooday everybody, I would like to know if my system is ROBUST, but I do not know what specific performance measurements to look at. I use tradestation 2000i for my backtesting. Any thoughts would be greately apprciated. Thank you. "Cut your losses and let your profits run"

Thank you mindgame, I called the people at omni trader, and they told me that I couldn't design and test my own system with their software, I had to use their own systems. Now I have a problem with that, as their systems might not suit me personally. Wouldn't want to trade with a system...

Thank you commisso for your reply. It seems tradestation is the only one that fits the bill. Take care Aafwintb

Hi, Could anybody give me advice as to what software is best to use for testing. I am a new trader, and would like to test some ideas I have for day trading the S&P 500, however most of the traditionally systems testing packages don't seem to allow for intraday testing. Thank you for your...