Excel based backtesting?

[Scaramanga]

Hello,

Are there any good excel-based programs for strategy building and back-testing? Even better would be automated trading that interfaces with popular brokers api?

Thx

 

[tradelink]

excel is not particularly well suited for backtesting performance wise.

you may want to check out tradelink:
* open source/free
* works with 12+ different brokers
* super-fast tick-based backtesting
* supports both completely and partially automated strategies
* works with equities/forex/futures/options
* supports any .net programming language (if you can program in excel you can use tradelink

http://tradelink.googlecode.com