for the tech or rather perl savvy,
http://www.geniustrader.org/ has an open source framework to do
GeniusTrader aims to be a full featured toolbox to create trading systems. Powerful systematic trading requires several things :
* many indicators and corresponding signals
* money management rules
o deciding what is a reasonable amount of money to put on a single trade (to limit the risk associated to that trade)
o combining different values within the portfolio (to limit the global risk)
* flexibility to be able to test all combinations with the above items
* backtesting system with analysis of results
http://www.geniustrader.org/ has an open source framework to do
GeniusTrader aims to be a full featured toolbox to create trading systems. Powerful systematic trading requires several things :
* many indicators and corresponding signals
* money management rules
o deciding what is a reasonable amount of money to put on a single trade (to limit the risk associated to that trade)
o combining different values within the portfolio (to limit the global risk)
* flexibility to be able to test all combinations with the above items
* backtesting system with analysis of results
