My trading style is based on mechanical trading signals which I have backtested using historical price / volume data. I like the idea of incorporating fundamental information (yield, P/E ratio, price:book etc) in my equities systems but I have not found any sources for the historical fundamental...
Back testing with tradesim / metastock
Hi there...there are lots of backtesting packages available, but many of them do not reflect the way you actually trade in the real workd (ie. in a portfolio rather than with a single instrument at a time).
I use Tradesim by Compuvision...
I have been trading an equity trend following system for ~3 years now with a fair degree of success. My system enters when a strong trend is in place which has a short pull back before continuing in the direction of the trend (not rocket science and not much optimisation involved). My exits are...