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!
I have put together a collection of Amibroker Tutorials from a combination of my own videos and some of the most useful free online Amibroker content.
If you really want to learn to backtest your trading systems with Amibroker then consider joining the Trader Success System which will show you an in depth process from start to finish to build absolute confidence in your trading system with Amibroker.
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.