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What facts do you have to back up this opinion?

MultiCharts does true tick-by-tick backtesting very well. You can load tick data from a source of your choice, such as IQFeed or your own data files. Plus, in the 64-bit version, you can load years of tick data, backtest it, and trade live.

Wide Tailz, Would be interesting to hear your comparison of MultiCharts' Portfolio Backtester and Portfolio Maestro in TS. We are planning to make portfolio trading, and looking for feedback on what to improve before we get going. Since you can just plug your EL strategies in there, and...

Two points. Point 1 regarding “it’s a bad assumption”. Assumptions cannot be good or bad, as they are methods for estimating certain events with varying accuracy, and may be acceptable to some but not to others. You should definitely be aware of what they are when using them, so you...

I'm not sure I follow. While the metaphor is graphic, what makes TradeStation a tool for newbies? "an advanced trader who makes money you can afford to hire a programmer and develop custom code, backtesting, FIX, etc." Custom code means custom strategies or indicators used for individual...

This is incorrect, you can easily run multiple strategies on the same symbol in Portfolio Backtester that comes with MultiCharts, and compare their results side by side. It won't let me attach a screenshot for some reason, so here's a link...

Both 32 and 64 bit are optimized for multi-threading.

Any backtesting is an assumption, a simulation that tries to approach reality as closely as possible. The goal of any software make is to minimize them as much as possible. In regular backtesting there is an assumption that if open > close, then price first went Open -> High -> Low -> Close...

No, it's not true that we developed TradeStation.

Hi all, I work for MultiCharts. Does anyone have the complete version of the paper? We'd be interested in analyzing it, but in this version there is no code or figures. -Stan