Recent content by abdibile

I would if I had a clue how to do it (only am bale to play around in Excel and VBA, which jsut is not enough for msot problems):)

I have the following degrees/education: Master in Finance from a German business school learned some maths and statistics, but it was more focused on business, derivatives, risk manageemnt concepts and understanding to see problems, not really solving statistical/coding problems CFA, FRM...

Although I have read a lot of general books on Excel and VBA I still do not really have a clue how to run complex backtests of trading strategies in Excel/VBA. Can anyone point me to a book or other resource that helps learning the functions that are important to do a backtest and how to...

I have ben thinking of doing it in Excel (or even in Matlab) but after having 600,000 lines of option prices in Excel and trying to selsct some using vlookup my computer crashed... Does anyone have a hint for me how to learn how to do backtests in Excel more efficiently or even learn to do it...

I am looking for a platform that allows me to backtest options strategies dynamically adjusted based on certian (partly complex) rules. As the data (e.g. lots of strikes, months and the greeks) and rulesets are different from Stock/Futures Trading a platform like tradestation can not be used...

Cool, thanks!

What is the best way to learn R in your view? Any recommendations on a easy/itiots guide introduction? I never reallay could ask google as the search term "R" does not really give good results :-)

Locally: yes. But as market moves the greeks of such positions can reverse quickly.