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
Apple is one of the top performing stocks of the past 27 years with a +11,393% return but what if I told you there was a trend trading signal that doubled those returns to +25,896%? Would yo... Read more
Here is an example of a simple long term profitable trend following system for the $SPY and $QQQ ETFs. This is backtest data from trading the most popular of all moving average crossover sig... Read more
Backtesting is the process of applying a strategy of entry and exit signals to historical price data to see if the system would have made money in the past. Systems that create good risk/re... Read more
Moving averages are technical trading tools that can act as filtering lines for trends and support and resistance lines on charts. They can also be combined together for crossover signals to... Read more
