Best Backtesting Software for a Newbie?

I vote for Amibroker. Unbelievably fast at an unbelievable low price ($199 for EOD).

It takes some time to learn it but I have found only one backtesting glitch with it, which I am not going to share here. Minor problem I would say. Other platforms may have more serious problems.
 
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I vote for Amibroker. Unbelievably fast at an unbelievable low price ($199 for EOD).

It takes some time to learn it but I have found only one backtesting glitch with it, which I am not going to share here. Minor problem I would say. Other platforms may have more serious problems.
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damn that does look good...certainly beats investor rt's $100/month
 
tradelink is free and open source, also :
* supports 17 different brokers and data feeds
* tick-based, either level1 or level2
* very fast backtest at 300,000-1million ticks/second
* live trade with 50us (.05ms) latency
* tutorials with videos provided
* 300+ member user community

google tradelink project or checkout tradelink.org
 
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tradelink is free and open source, also :
* supports 17 different brokers and data feeds
* tick-based, either level1 or level2
* very fast backtest at 300,000-1million ticks/second
* live trade with 50us (.05ms) latency
* tutorials with videos provided
* 300+ member user community

google tradelink project or checkout tradelink.org
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how difficult is it to learn to code a strategy?
 
The learning curve is probably different for everyone, but we've had non programmers follow the tutorials and report success.

ask on the community.tradelink.org list to find out more.
 
Ok so I've narrowed it down to these 3:

Investor RT
PROS: easy to learn and use, powerful, supposedly fast, great support
CONS: $100+ per month

AmiBroker
PROS: one time fee of $199 (plus other misc crap)
CONS: harder to learn

Ninjatrader
PROS: free, easy to use for simple strategies
CONS: harder to learn if you want to program more complicated and specific strategies (you have to go into the code)


UGH i feel like i'm bouncing back and forth between systems trying to learn their languages...
 
sierracharts backtesting

fastest in the business but it's in C++, you can do forward testing at 10.000x speed

complete trading platform for $18 a month
 
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AmiBroker
PROS: one time fee of $199 (plus other misc crap)
CONS: harder to learn
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It's not hard to learn at all, really. The pros of InvestorRt should be additional pros of Amibroker. Normally Amibroker should cost $2000 to $3000 to justify the capabilities of that product. It's a gift that its price is so incredibly low. It still amazes me.
 
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Normally Amibroker should cost $2000 to $3000 to justify the capabilities of that product. It's a gift that its price is so incredibly low. It still amazes me.
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I agree but its developer is in a country where people have learned to live with less and produce more. He must be a very intelligent person.
 
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Amibroker is the best one. But every software needs a learning curve! Ninjatrader is unreliable and slow crap.
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Amnibroker's site sucks. Is it really the best? Why can't they build a good website if it's so great? (you probably won't answer that)
 
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