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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 software has…

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…

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 Microsoft…

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…

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…