Testing

[Odysseus]

I'm kind of a "Lone Ranger" in my world of friends as far as investing is concerned. And I'm trying to figure out what everyone is using software-wise for testing or charting stocks.

Unfortunately I'm under the larger investment limits for most brokerages I believe for truly good/free software, such as Scottrade's $25,000 requirement. I'm playing with only about 3k of cash.

I have found that stockcharts.com is great for charting, and the Wall Street Analyzer is good for backtesting.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm trying to do backtesting at low cost Thanks ahead of time !

~Ody

[IIC]

I'm kind of a "Lone Ranger" in my world of friends as far as investing is concerned. And I'm trying to figure out what everyone is using software-wise for testing or charting stocks.

Unfortunately I'm under the larger investment limits for most brokerages I believe for truly good/free software, such as Scottrade's $25,000 requirement. I'm playing with only about 3k of cash.

I have found that stockcharts.com is great for charting, and the Wall Street Analyzer is good for backtesting.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm trying to do backtesting at low cost Thanks ahead of time !

~Ody

I'll wait for the next post

[billyjoe]

Odysseus,
Google "backtesting stocks" many will show up,some claiming to have free software.


-----------billy

[Odysseus]

Yeah, I've tried that. I have one that works well, just wasn't sure if there are others that are better. This one has a few bugs I have to constantly workaround, but I've finally built some good systems I hope to employ very soon.

It worked really well on CEDC using boilinger band hits and WilliamR%.

Thank you though

~Ody

[IIC]

You can backtest at Stockfetcher.com