The law of small numbers is a fallacy that leads people to believe that a small sample size of data will be enough to resemble the normal data of the whole and determine the probabilities of... Read more
FAAMG is the acronym for what is thought to be the ideal big tech portfolio that contains the best performing stocks in the market. It was first coined by Goldman Sachs but it is a derivativ... Read more
Here is a list of websites that allow traders to download historical stock data for the U.S. stock market. Yahoo Finance allows download data manually from its website: One of the best plac... Read more
How do you backtest a trading strategy even if you can’t code? Use backtesting software that doesn’t require coding, just simple inputs of entry and exit signals for markets you... Read more
Backtesting shows a trader how their signals for entries and exits would have performed in the past. While a backtest of past data doesn’t guarantee that a signal will work in the futu... Read more
A trading strategy is the process used to enter and exit positions in a market based on quantified signals on when to buy and sell. A trading strategy will have trading plan to express a met... Read more
Portfolio backtesting is the process of using historical price data to analyze and backtest the returns of a group of stocks, exchange traded funds, or mutual funds in the past. A complete... Read more
Stock backtesting software is a tool for doing historical research to discover if mechanical technical entry and exit signals would have lead to profitability in the past. Backtesting softwa... Read more
Backtesting is the process of applying entry and exit signals to time periods of past historical price data to quantify through an equity curve whether the system would have lead to overall... Read more
One example of a simple long term trend following system is the ‘Golden Cross’. This is the most popular and famous bullish moving average crossover entry signal along with its i... Read more
