This is a Video Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co. You can subscribe to his YouTube Channel here. Read more
The is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this User Guide, Jakes takes a look at one of Trend Spider’s most powerful features that allows users to test different strategies and how... Read more
A moving average is a trend following indicator that can be used to filter price action and capture trends by keeping a trader long during up trends and in cash or short during downtrends. H... Read more
You can’t determine whether mechanical entry and exit signals are viable for profitable trading unless you test it over a broad range of trading vehicles through different market environment... Read more
A back test is where a trader takes a series of historical price action data and tries to find patterns that were profitable in the past. The trouble is when a trader tries to keep changing... Read more
The normal path of nature has fragile things like living creatures and mechanical things follow a ‘bathtub curve’ where, after being a baby then child the probabilities of death... Read more
When completing a backtest in a market it is crucial to understand ten dynamics to see if the system is viable for trading live with real money. While backtesting can’t ensure that you... Read more
Here is an example of a simple long term profitable trend following system for the $SPY ETF. This is really best compared with buy and hold investing and presents a simple alternate that cre... Read more
Back tests are views into historical price action, they are not crystal balls that show us how profitable a system will be in the future. The best use of backtesting is as a filter to test y... Read more
Many new traders wonder how to develop their own entry and exit signals and build their own trading systems. I wanted to share a few sites that provide basic backtesting functionality on a w... Read more
