Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform

kevin107 · Nov 14, 2007

Gyles,

Do any of the programs you have evaluated have the ability to backtest using OHLC of constant volume bars?

Gyles · Nov 14, 2007

Quote from DonKee:

do you have a review of
http://www.tradingrecipes.com/index.html ?

I had a look at the same and found it interesting.

Quote from Gyles:

I have not yet done so. However, I would like to review the software Mechanica in Elite Trader Forums.

Is it possible to get a demo? If so, please tell me the differences between the real version and the demo one, so that I can take them into consideration while doing the review.

Moreover, I sincerely wished to do the review, but was unable to do so as I do not have any response regarding the demo. I had send emails to the support and till date, no answer has come.

Thus, I feel that for price of $3000.00 upgrade and $10,000 and the product, and not getting any response to my email inquiries, makes me wonder as to how I can trust their support or support and why should I buy from them?

CPTrader · Nov 15, 2007

I would love to see an unbiased review of Mechanica (formerly known as Trading Recipes).

Anyone?

Gyles · Nov 18, 2007

Quote from lindq:

You should also look into Investor RT at www.linnsoft.com.

There are many IRT users here on ET.

Sincere thanks, lindq for your inputs; please post your opinions regarding the above software for the benefit of the Elite Trader Forum.

chartie · Nov 18, 2007

Hi Gyles,

Thank you for sharing your evaluations with us. Iâm looking forward to reading more reviews from you and other ETâers.

Here's according to this weekâs BARRONâS -

âCOMING SOON TO FIDELITY'S SITE: a way to backtest a stock-trading strategy free of charge -- even for non-customers. This perk will be available after the first of the year, in conjunction with the release of Fidelity's super-charged testing program, Wealth-Lab Pro, aimed at frequent traders. We'll be reporting on both tools later.â

Guess this might keep you busy ...

TraderSystem · Nov 28, 2007

Where are you Gyles, what happened to the reviews of TradersStudio?

Thought shall do some checking out myself and found the following link particularly interesting. A number of softwares have been mentioned in this thread.

http://www.portfolio123.com/mvnforum/printthread?thread=1776&printall=yes

Gyles · Nov 28, 2007

Greetings everyone, I am sincerely sorry for the break as I was busy with some family issues. Anyway, I am back now as shall start again from where we left off.

Sincere thanks chartie, for your information regarding "FIDELITY'S SITE". Hope they are providing a demo for the same so that we can check it out.

As discussed earlier, we were supposed to review the TradersStudio software. I am going to do a Webinar next week with Mr. Murray and review TradersStudio after that.

lately · Nov 28, 2007

This question is for Gyles or Roger Rines:

Do either of you guys have any experience with OpenQuant? If so, could you share your opinion relative to these other strategy development software packages?

Roger Rines · Nov 28, 2007

Quote from lately:

This question is for Gyles or Roger Rines:

Do either of you guys have any experience with OpenQuant? If so, could you share your opinion relative to these other strategy development software packages?

Hi Lately,
I have no experience with this software.

DanFan78 · Dec 4, 2007

Likewise, where's a review of OV5's BackTrader? I'm interested in it, and there was one brief posting about it, but a review would be helpful . . .