Recent content by chris319

I work eight hours per day, five days per week and spend another four hours per day and many hours on weekends coding, when I am working on a system, which is not always. At some point you have to stick a fork in it and call it "done" and let your system work its money-making magic. No use being...

I got OmniTrader 200? last year and was thoroughly unimpressed. Save your money for a better program.

tickStation is a program I came across which looks interesting: http://66.91.12.246/tickstation/

Yes, that makes sense, thank you. Do any of the packages under consideration offer the ability to scan a universe (let's say the S&P 500 for convenience) for criteria such as "the n stocks with the highest/lowest return over the past m periods" and use that as a trading rule? I too have...

Could someone please clarify what is meant by portfolio-level backtesting as opposed to backtesting an individual security? Thanks.

I tried Tradecision earlier this year and sent it back. My chief complaint was that it came up with different backtest results over repeated runs, despite the fact that none of the test parameters had changed. IOW I would do a backtest run and obtain one result, and using the same parameters...

You can cross Stockworm off the list. Their last day was Friday, June 30. It was a great service, but sadly there weren't enough subscribers. You can add Portfolio123 to the list. It has backtesting.

How do you know if any of these systems have been profitable in the past? Do you just trade them on blind faith?

Murray - Here is a question about TradersStudio: Does it support fixed-interval trading, i.e. purchase a specified number of the highest/lowest ranked securities and hold for a specific period (one day, one week, one month, etc.), then rebalance the portfolio at the end of the specified...