I’ve written in the past about how RightEdge is one of the best simulation platforms on the market. The only issue with RightEdge is that it can be a little tricky to get started. If you’re not comfortable with programming, it’s not that easy to get your data hooked up so you can start modelling. Perhaps the new RightEdge plugin for ...
Read More »Setting up your own quant environment – Populating the database
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Read More »How to make proper equity simulations on a budget – Part 1 Data
Simulating an equity strategy is difficult. Much more so than simulating a futures strategy. There’s a lot more moving parts to care about. Much more complexity. All too often, I see articles and books that just skipped the difficult parts. Either they didn’t understand it, or they hoped it wouldn’t matter. It does. When I set out to write Stocks ...
Read More »How to build a professional simulation environment – On the cheap
Do you want to learn how to build a professional environment for trading simulations without paying an arm and a leg? Building a proper environment for developing and testing trading strategies can be very expensive. It doesn’t have to be though, as long as you’re willing to put in some work. I work with both cheap and expensive tools and ...
Read More »Don’t analyze the wrong time series
Regardless of your trading style, it is important that you analyse the same thing that you trade. That might sound obvious, but it is a very common error even among professionals. There are two main mistakes in this regard. To analyze the cash markets while trading the futures and to analyze a non-adjusted futures continuation. Both usually have large error ...
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