tradingview.com is the most popular backtest platform now?

IAlwaysWin said:
If your strategy sucks, it sucks. Not because Tradingview is wrong. Its pretty accurate for me and a whole lot of other traders that are profitable and backtest using that platform.
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Is there any "AI" script that I can try in Tradingview?
 
gaussian said:
I think it's a pretty great platform for the price. It lacks the bells and whistles of something like multicharts but it's backtesting for single instruments is not bad. It has probably one of the best charting packages on the planet for $14.99 and is linked up to a community forum for top tier shitposting.

I don't personally use it (futures spreads and all...) but just about everyone I know that trades uses it. The level of convenience, lack of needing to install some bullshit platform-and-service-pack-dependent software from a company that still develops like its 1982 is worth it in every single way. Recently they've really added a ton of broker links and are working on more. They will quickly consume the overall market for anyone but the most picky of traders. Once they support option chains the current big swinging dick in the field of great UI, TOS, will get completely btfo.

I think you really need to quantify the sentence "it does so many things wrong I don't know where to start" because you are certainly in an extremely small community of active traders that don't think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I originally replied because the OP had spoken about it as "the most popular backtest platform".

However... Tradingview charting is fantastic. No negative comments there _at all_. I use it every day.

The backtesting is horrible to the point of being wrong.

1. Can't restrict to date range without stupid isInDateRange guard on everything.
2. It's actually wrong often enough for me to not know whether I am the problem or TV is the problem. I used to use it to verify backtests from other platforms + my own. No longer do so because TV had insanely good results that could not be replicated anywhere.
3. Simple things are easy, complex things are hard: meaning they have spent energy on the easy things

That being said, I love the DSL for charting. Any time I need to test a custom indicator/function, I run it through TV first.
 
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gaussian said:
I think it's a pretty great platform for the price. It lacks the bells and whistles of something like multicharts but it's backtesting for single instruments is not bad. It has probably one of the best charting packages on the planet for $14.99 and is linked up to a community forum for top tier shitposting.
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May I ask how the heck are you so familiar with these vendor packages which I safely assume you don't use?
 
Trradingview is popular because many newbies are using it for backtesting.

I like their charts but not their Pine Script. It would be good if they offer C++, Python Java, or C#.
 
carrer said:
Trradingview is popular because many newbies are using it for backtesting.

I like their charts but not their Pine Script. It would be good if they offer C++, Python Java, or C#.
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Supporting all these lanaguages would not be possible with pure browser only.
 
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