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Understanding Backtesting

187 bytes removed, 20:39, 23 February 2012
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Once a strategy is applied to a chart, the backtesting process starts. During the backtesting process, the strategy places trades where they would have occurred the past, according to the set of rules applied. The trades are placed throughout the entire available period of historical data. If strategy is applied to real-time chart, the strategy continues to place new trades as the real-time data is received.
A [[<span style="color: red;">'''LINK'''</span> /0280_Backtesting/22-8004_BTReport.html name=""; Using_Performance_Report|Performance Report]] can be generated, based on the trades placed by the strategy and containing statistics and performance measurements.
<div style="background-color: #E3FBE5;">Note: New trades, placed by the strategy after the performance report has already been generated, will not be added to the performance report in real time. To incorporate the new trades into the performance report should be generated again.</div>
The user would have to use the scroll button to find the trade in the data series. Report-Chart Synchronization simplifies this process. Trades on the chart are automatically highlighted when the user hovers his mouse over a trade in the Strategy Performance Report.
To learn more about this feature, see [[<span style="color: red;">'''LINK'''</span> /0280_Backtesting/22-8004_BTReport.html name="4=41"; Using_Performance_Report#Setting_Display_Properties|Setting Display Properties]]
Learn more about [[<span style="color: red;">'''LINK'''</span> /0270_Indicators/22-7006_SignalSettings.html name=""; |Signals]]
<br>Learn more about [[<span style="color: red;">'''LINK'''</span> /0280_Backtesting/22-8004_BTReport.html name=""; Using_Performance_Report|Performance Report]]
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