free backtesting

[Tradex]

What do you think will happen next when these backtesting services notice that your system is highly profitable and its drawdown is small ? ....

 

[happy trading]

What do you think will happen next when these backtesting services notice that your system is highly profitable and its drawdown is small ? ....

!!!! i am only backtesting something i want to ADD to my strategy!

 

[happy trading]

Ah! Then if you have TOS, you may wish to augment your Backtesting desire by using charts with some ThinkScript code where rqd. -- If you can code in thinkscript, you can collect/report the information you want.

Also, the following may be of some interest:
"https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/examples"

Hopefully others will chime in as well.

thanks for your response. i checked out this site it helped a little bit but it is very limited in what it can backtest. do you know of other sites (doesnt have to be free) that can do a better job?

 

[Steve Alexander]

for now i am going to backtest basic things: ma crossovers on stocks

I can save you some time. MA crossovers don't work for any meaningful period of time (6 months or longer). I have tried them all.

 

[userque]

I can save you some time. MA crossovers don't work for any meaningful period of time (6 months or longer). I have tried them all.

Have you backtested all parameters of adaptive MA crossovers?

 

[guowei58]

use Tradestation...just fund the account with a small amount and you can use their system to backtest. Easylanguage is pretty easy

 

[ironchef]

Have you backtested all parameters of adaptive MA crossovers?

What is that?

 

[userque]

What is that?

Simply: a moving average whose period can adjust.

KAMA is an example of one:
https://school.stockcharts.com/doku.php?id=technical_indicators:kaufman_s_adaptive_moving_average

 

[ironchef]

Simply: a moving average whose period can adjust.

KAMA is an example of one:
https://school.stockcharts.com/doku.php?id=technical_indicators:kaufman_s_adaptive_moving_average

OK thank you.

 

[christielowe]

What kinda strategy do you want to test?

If you are definite about the “free” bit, your options are going to be very few. All decent testing apps and platforms come with a wee bit of cost.