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    Building a strategy.

    Oops :-0 Forex is a different beast. For example there is no volume information, so your supposed strategy can not be used. Money management is the king for forex (because of high leverage) and you need to know forex in details for that. Do you know what is the pip price from GBP/JPY for...
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    Building a strategy.

    Hi Zombi, I like your attitude :clap: You are definitely on the right track. The only thing to mention - it could be boring :yawn: to browse through FinBiz pages and fetch info everyday. I suggest some automation/script on that :smart: to produce some signals for you, so you have only to place...
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    Trading Systems vs. Discretionary Trading

    I voted for mixture. On the other side, if you trade with medium-long time horizon (starting from holding position for few weeks) then systems work good :clap: However, you need to monitor news/events daily just in case of black swan :eek:
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    Back testing for non programmers - help!

    Probably you are right :cry: (I live in Canada) The fact of life is that professionals can do many things easy way, so they under-price their own skills :cool:
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    Back testing for non programmers - help!

    Working for free :thumbsdow - it is not my style. I develop strategies for myself, I do not sell them. One need regular discretional follow-up of strategy to update it. In my experience - people start to trade, later get some idea how it should be done by robot, but have no skills to program...
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    Back testing for non programmers - help!

    NetTecture I understand your concerns However, if your strategy is in place and coded already - what stops you to back test it ? Is it so hard, do I miss smth :?:
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    Ivy Bot

    Experienced developer/trader will write the code your trading strategy (robot, model) for your platform - MetaTrader, TradeStation and other. For whatever market you trade - stocks, indices, currencies, commodity futures, o Tired of clicking BUY/SELL buttons on your trading station ? I will...
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    Back testing for non programmers - help!

    Back testing your strategy for one historical feed - $10 Simple strategy/signal - $50 Converting your strategy from one language to another - $100 Code for Advanced strategy - $100 Check your trading strategy for consistency - from $100 Complete strategy (with volume/risk scaling) - from $200...
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    Benchmarks for mechanical trading systems?

    Keep it simple - use the some index of your asset class as the benchmark :smart:
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    Matlab for Backtesting

    Matlab is a good tool for quantitative analysis :cool:, especially when you have big volume historical prices (e.g. ticks). What can you do in Excel - just 65,000 points:whistling
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