
Quote from nitro:
I use TradeStation, Mathematica, Matlab, and C# for my system testing.
FWI, I am very close to agreeing with limitdown. It is INCREDIBLY hard to backtest _correctly_. If you use _only_ the tools as they are sold that are on the market to come up with a winning system, I would say that is nearly impossible to do so.
I use TS to protoptype an idea. But once I think I have something, I go to one of the other programs, eventually landing in C# for the production system, often in conjuction with Excel.
It is an incredibly hard road...The ideas that I have used to come up with winning futures systems, I have never seen before...
nitro
Quote from jimcrist:
I'm a swing trader that trades breakouts using a system I developed and backtested. I tried to develop and backtest a pullback system, but I was never able to find a system that backtested well. I'm curious as to why this is. Is it 'cuz breakout systems are just better than pullback systems or is it 'cuz I never hit on a good system or what? Does anyone have a pullback system that backtests well? Any insights on this conundrum are appreciated.
Quote from nitro:
No.
You're welcome.
nitro
Quote from Walther:
Nihil novum sub soleil... or something like that .
Only approach might be innovative, like using 3d projection of price movement to predict future price turning points. Or better yet using unusual combination of indicators and or known methods.
Shees.. I thought you know that