Advice on back testing

[u0362565]

Hi all, has anyone got any advice on how to back test a strategy automatically? Doing it manually backward or in present is pretty tedious in finding and I wonder if it wouldn't be so hard to automate it via one of the platforms. I've done some macro and script writing before but not in any major programming languages so something not too hardcore would be good.

Thanks

[Bopperz]

Check out pro-realtime, you can backtest any trading strategy that you can express explicitly in code.

[u0362565]

Ok thanks, I'm guessing there are tutorials on how to code with it? Just need the time to learn. I wonder if you could pay someone to do it for you.. Perhaps that exists already.

[jlz]

There are a few places, google the word "quant" + back testing and you will find many companies that offer platforms to do backtesting.

I recently started writing a few tests with the TradingView pine editor. They have released v.4 and it looks great.

https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v4/essential/Strategies.html

[u0362565]

Thanks a lot, Trading view is essentially a rival to IG I assume? 

I came across this recently and wondered what others thought.

https://tradologics.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA3NX_BRDQARIsALA3fIKAbmNi7azE8xuKL-LjAKgqCT-2HJl-c1Kgnu_lm3XXd-UNhfncuXgaAl_fEALw_wcB

 

[jlz]

Trading view is not a rival. It is just a charting tool that connects to many brokers. 

[MongiIG]

On 05/01/2021 at 12:41, u0362565 said:

Hi all, has anyone got any advice on how to back test a strategy automatically? Doing it manually backward or in present is pretty tedious in finding and I wonder if it wouldn't be so hard to automate it via one of the platforms. I've done some macro and script writing before but not in any major programming languages so something not too hardcore would be good.

Thanks

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