What Is Amibroker?
Amibroker is one of the most powerful trading software available for portfolio level backtesting of your trading systems. Amibroker can backtest single instrument trading systems or portfolio trading systems such as stock trend following systems which may hold dozens of simultaneous positions. Amibroker is extremely fast, and can backtest a portfolio system over the entire stock market (thousands of stocks) over the last 30 years, it will complete this backtest in just less than a minute!
Learn About Amibroker:
● Amibroker Backtesting
● Amibroker Optimization
● Amibroker Indicators
● Amibroker Charts
● Amibroker Functions
● Amibroker Formula Language
The Amibroker tutorials and articles below will help you get started quickly and demonstrate how powerful Amibroker is for your backtesting, scanning, charting and managing your stock trading systems.
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In this Amibroker tutorial video you will learn how backtest a daily trading system in Amibroker which uses data from a weekly chart or weekly indicators such as the MACD Histogram in your end of day stock trading system.
Backtesting the most common position size models explained by Van Tharp in “Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom” and “The Definitive Guide To Position Sizing” is easy in Amibroker.
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In this video I explain how to write the most common position sizing models in Amibroker Formula Language and backtest your trading system with them Amibroker.
Backtesting is one of the most powerful tools stock traders have to evaluate the performance of their trading strategies, trading ideas and entry and exit signals.
Manual backtesting or paper trading is just not sufficient to get a real understanding of how a system performs and is way too time consuming. Automated backtesting using Amibroker is extremely fast, allows you to generate thousands of trades over decades of market history quickly and easily. Plus Amibroker provides a comprehensive performance report with statistics and graphical outputs to help you understand the performance of your trading system.
Backtesting the most common position size models explained by Van Tharp in “Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom” and “The Definitive Guide To Position Sizing” is easy in Amibroker.
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In this video I explain how to write the most common position sizing models in Amibroker Formula Language and backtest your trading system with them Amibroker.
When backtesting and optimizing your trading system using Amibroker, or any other trading software, you need to be careful how you deal with outlier trades. If you include all outlier trades when you optimize you run a very high risk of curve-fitting your trading system to a small number of the biggest winning trades.