Trading Strategy Backtest

Update 2022/01/04: Backtest is a desktop Windows app I developed in the late 2000s. A couple of colleagues and I were studying futures day trading and we wanted to test strategies against historical data. We collaborated for a couple of years while experimenting, trading and evolving Backtest. Some screen shots of my Trading Strategy Backtest […]

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Wall Street

This story reprinted without permission from portfolio.com This article expresses part of what I have been thinking for some time, that Wall Street is feeding the world bs and most people are taking a big bite. -Mike The Evolution of an Investor by Michael Lewis December 2007 Issue Blaine Lourd got rich picking stocks. But […]

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Notes from eval of trading software

All of this was done summer/fall of ’06 Strategy Runner. Looks interesting. Years of tick data for testing. Full platform capable. Price Paper trader: 2 week trial, $35-$65/month Real: “call for price” Strategy Tuner Dev: $3k, $900/yr Strategy Tuner Standard: $300 one time Data: 3 contracts included. $50/yr per contract updates Lite: auto exits only, […]

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Notes from Peter Lynch’s “Beating the Street”

My notes from reading “Beating the Street”. National Association of Investors Corp. Represents over 10,000 stockpicking clubs. Majority of chapters beat s&p and 3/4 of all mutual funds. Offer investors manual and home study course. Monthly “Better Investing”. http://www.better-investing.org/ Maxims from NAIC: -Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on. -Invest regularly. -You […]

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