Resources & Articles
AFL
Super Trend Indicator
Recently I gave a presentation describing the process of creating and validating a simple trading strategy using AmiBroker. In this case, the instruments traded were the NIFTY and Bank NIFTY indices from the NSE in India, and the primary indicator ...
Matt December 27, 2018
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AFL
Combining Strategies with Amibroker
I’m a big fan of AmiBroker, particularly the speed and flexibility it provides for backtesting trading strategies. However, one thing that is not particularly straightforward in AmiBroker is combining multiple strategies into a single system. Many quantitative (a.k.a. systematic) traders, ...
Matt September 20, 2018
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Testing
Cesar’s First Rule
Much of what I know about the practical aspects of backtesting I learned from two of my colleagues at Connors Research, Cesar Alvarez and David Weilmunster. One particularly important lesson was Cesar’s observation that “if the results seem too good ...