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@ankit its really good that you have an engineering background you can easily learn those programs. Dont worry about getting past data. Those libraries have inbuilt data fetching functions which will fetch historical data from google or yahoo finance. To make your search easier try this method...

I have created two trading strategy one which follows trend rules and other momentum. I have backtested both strategies in a universe of stocks which has been chosen randomly for 10 years of data. Below is the backtest result Trend strategy Momentum Strategy Any Advice NOTE: I am planning...

When creating this poll this thought passed my mind but I myself dont know how to define "rich". Your definition of rich if one has fullfilled all his financial needs and has surplus which will be sufficient for his lifetime then he can be considered rich. seems a perfect fit

I am starting this poll to find out whether a retail investor(a common man) becoming rich by trading in indian market is a fantasy or reality. This voting is for those people who have become rich themselves by trading or knew those traders personally who became rich by trading. Please no...

There are full blown programming languages that you can use for backtesting. Search for backtesting libraries in Matlab, python or R. But i have to warn you these softwares require a steep learning curve.

There are lots of software available for back testing in indian markets, the best once we have to pay. You can try a one month trial version of amibroker, ninjatrader is ok but I would not recommend, Zerodha PI (if you have a broker account) etc

is there a difference or releationship between stock price and its future stock price. Do they have same price movement or different? Which influence the others price? means whether its stock influence future stock price or future stock influence its stock price. Lets assume the stock is SBI...

I am trying to short some stocks and used a moving average crossover strategy to short it. But what i found was using moving average crossover for shorting creates more whipsaws comparing to moving average crossover long trades. Can you suggest any other strategies for shorting a stock.

Check out this video it explains how to do backtest in amibroker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akO-JKQNLtk

I started this poll for finding annual return percentage for any strategies in general (methods doesn’t matter). I have carried out my calculations in amibroker with brokerage of 0.01%. others can use amibroker, other backtesting sofwares or even real annual return percentage. The only condition...

Can any amibroker programming gurus can help me with clearing this concept. I want to add stop loss function to my backtest script and I found this fixed stop loss code. amount = 2; // 2% loss ApplyStop( stopTypeLoss, stopModePercent, amount, True ); my question is how amibroker determines a...

I assume that was a joke :lol: else majority of my strategies returned negative only :D

I am starting this poll to find out annual return percentage obtained by different traders for their own strategy. The ultimate aim of this poll is to find a realistic annual return and try to improve my own strategy towards it. I have carried out back testing (10 year data) in amibroker and my...

As suri mentioned; my primary aim is also to find that "golden" or perfect setup followed by making money. Finding that "perfect" setup for trading is like solving a puzzle which is intellectually simulating. I voted for perfect setup :)

I want to know which demat account is best for trading in india. I am planning to open my trading account with zerodha. Zerodha also provides demat account. I also have an account with SBI and planning to try its demat account because of SBI quality service in banking. The confusion is which...

The default settings of MACD is 12-26-9 in which 12 is the fast ema 26 is slow ema and 9 is the signal line. If i want to select 25 as fast ema and 60 as slow ema then what should i select as signal line. Should i keep 9 or have to change my default signal parameter. I know we can keep any...

Do you know the formula for calculating zig zag indictor

Can any one share the steps to how to start automated trading using Omnesys NEST PULSE (consider broker as zerodha). is Omnesys NEST PULSE and Omnesys NEST PLUS are same? Do we need to install Omnesys NEST PULSE in VPS? which VPS you will recommend (preferably the cheapest)? Do we need linux...

So i have been searching for an online back testing site and came across RIZM which offers back testing and algo trading for US markets. I have tried their algobuilder and its very nice and we dont need any kind of programming skills. Whats your opinion about this site?Is the backtest results...

Not trying to be condescending but who will test your plug-in? Not me that’s sure. 1) no ones knows you 2) No one heard or reviewed this plugin 3) How can any one be sure your plugin is not an malware. When i will test your plugin 1)when somebody with reputation vouch for your...