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We are developing a product that does EOD backtesting on group of stocks - up to a 1000 symbols it has been tested to work well. Funny enough: one of the reasons that this product has been developed is to overcome single stock backtesting limitation of TradeStation. The demo and product...

Another book that I may recommend: John C. Hull "Options, Futures and other derivatives" I know that many of you here on this forum are equity daytraders, however this book touches basics of risk, volatility etc. that is applicable to daytrading too. TradingBoy http://www.quotelinks.com

Highly recommend [Technical Analysis From A to Z by Steven B. Achelis] for anybody who uses or plans to use technical analysis trading My 2 cents TradingBoy

yep - the data was missing for 5/10/2002. However we used 3 server names as one of our products gets their data - www.quotelinks.com - and one of the servers seemed to retrieve data fine.

BullFighter, your comments are certainly valid. From the other hand people reading this post might not like technical support discussion because the original question basicaly was: "what are historical backtesting software products out there ?" Thanks, tradingboy

Chandra, here are the answers: 1. No 2. It is easy to create a combination of predefined strategies 3. 8 years, 20 min delayed data, no server conneciton fees 4. No Please contact us directly if you have any other questions rather than posting them here.

Believe me - for what you are planning on using your computer: trading, email, internet browsing and MS Office you do not need XP. Windows 2000 as mentioned earlier is good enough (just make sure that you apply patches regulary and service packs after you install it) You would also need a...

We have created a software package specifically to do automated investment strategies back-testing. It is far from Tradestation in its features yet but at least some alternative http://www.ashkon.com/predictor/ Only daily data for now, we may extend it to intraday in future, demo is available...

I've read books and tried over a dozen commercial packages trying to prove that neural nets work. Yes they do somewhat work - however better results can be acheived by other methods. Specifically never trust an overtrained neural net - you'll get results worth than before. My overall...

For those who want daily data: http://chart.yahoo.com/d gives it in ASCII format with a huge range. Would've been nice if yahoo added intraday data too

There is a place to get todays intraday data from the web: http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp , type in the ticker then go to charts. Select "period" 10-day range and then click file -> export data. Unfortunately this is 5 min intraday data only but a good thing it is free. Otherwise...