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The answer is "it depends" - you can't just blanket say that one is better than the others. They each have strengths and weaknesses. Tradestation is great as long as you need to only test single securities. If you need to test a portfolio, then Tradingblox, Tradersstudio, Wealth-lab and...

Only available to people outside the US. The new version of Wealth-Lab -- 5.0 -- I really don't care for. Requires too much work.

I don't mention it because you need to be a Fidelity client and pay their terrible commissions to get access to the software.

Not as far as I know - could have been added.....you'd have to investigate for yourself to be sure. Backtesting of options is exceptionally tricky because of a lack of reliable data.

No - I know of no software for backtesting options - data is probably the issue.

All the programs mentioned can do that.

Open Quant is another interesting program - and I remember some others: - Seer Trading - Right Edge Systems - Open Quant

Exactly - Tradestation does not yet offer portfolio testing, but the following programs do: - Tradingblox - Tradersstudio - Amibroker - Multicharts There are others - but those are the ones I know best.

Do you need portfolio trading or just single equity/instrument?

Amibroker does this out of the box. You can just use the EOD version. It will allow you to create a composite symbol from just about anything. Say, for instance, that you want to create a % of stocks from the S&P500 trading above their 50dma. Very easy to do. http://www.amibroker.com...

I just downloaded and tried out QuantStation - very, very primitive in my opinion. Nice charts but no custom indicators, etc. NinjaTrader is far better. For me, the order goes (in terms of price): - NinjaTrader - free for simulated account. - Amibroker - works great for me -...

Murray - any follow-up on this thread?

Another good place to start is with a product like Stockfetch.com - program in your strategies and see if it can handle them. That will cost you $16 a month or something.

I like Tradersstudio (mid-range price), and Amibroker (cheap). On the high-end, TradingBlox is a fine program.

What was the backtest run on? Meaning, what stocks?

Guaranteed bonuses? Meaning - contractually bound to pay those bonuses?

I can only speak for Amibroker, but the issue is not that it can't do it - it is likely the data source. Find a data source that provides 5m of data for a year, and I'd beat that at least AB can do it.

I agree - other good ones: - Amibroker Real Time - Ninja Trader I like: - Amibroker - Tradersstudio - Tradingblox Same list as above. for D - I have no idea what you mean by that. I like Amibroker for this more than Worden - more programmable.

I'm guessing you are not looking for one piece of software on all of these.... Next question - what's your price range?

Ok - so the first move down - was that a 3 bar reversal? Meaning, before the long entry?