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[luca]

Can anyone recommend a good, easy to use and possibly free backtesting program? I looked into Meta 4 but I also noticed some comments about its reliability. Thanks.

[DeltaGuy]

luca,

I suggest that you start off with Excel. You will be amazed at what you can test with Excel and it will also allow you to refine your ideas about what you want to test.

I have written some very sophisticated back testing stuff in C# but I often go back to Excel if I want to quickly test a strategy or aspects of it.

Hope this helps.

[luca]

Thank you. I have often used excel myself and now I was wondering whether I should learn something more sophisticated. I'll stick with that.

[Rufanuf]

Hi,

Id love to learn to use Excel to back test, but it seems really complicated (learning formulas ect)...does anyone have any ideas where, how i can edcuate myself in Excel for FX backing testing?

Thanks


Ruf

[DeltaGuy]

Originally Posted by Rufanuf

Id love to learn to use Excel to back test, but it seems really complicated (learning formulas ect)...does anyone have any ideas where, how i can edcuate myself in Excel for FX backing testing?

Ruf: I've heard this a number of times so I've put together an article with a sample spreadsheet (which could become the first in a series of articles) that explains how you could use Excel to Back Test a trading strategy. Let me know if this helps you:
http://www.deltat1.com/Education/art...ing/excel.aspx

Regards,
Guy

[3dB]

Nice work DeltaGuy! Thanks for sharing that.

I'm in the middle of the information gathering process abt Forex and have been looking for spreadsheets and Matlab scripts.

I agree that Excel is good for quick'n dirty formula testing for any kinds of data, I use it almost daily at work for analysis of measurement data. (temperatures, voltages and currents and such)

[DeltaGuy]

You're very welcome. I hope to share more in the future. I'll see what people need to know.