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
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
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 of the best places to get free historical price data going back over 60 years is finance.yahoo.com. Yahoo Finance provides historical price data that can be easily downloaded into Micros... 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
Data analytics is the process of analyzing information through filtering it to transform the raw data into useable models. The goal is to uncover highly probably conclusions that can be use... Read more
Data mining for traders is the process of researching large amounts of historical data to find repeatable price action patterns in financial markets. Data mining can be done on all different... Read more
Moving averages are technical trading indicators for capturing trends. This post shows the backtesting data and system equity curve versus buy and hold using TrendSpider.com. This is the ba... Read more
