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.
For other posts you might be interested in, here are other Amibroker related content:
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.
A trading system is a group of specific parameters that combine to create buy and sell signals for a given security. I would say almost every successful trader has a trading system, but not every trading system is successful because many stock traders optimize their trading systems the wrong way.
In this video I will show you the correct way to optimize a parameter value in Amibroker. The great thing is when you optimize your trading system like this it only takes minutes and you end up with a much more robust trading system.
Video Transcript Did you know that the vast majority of entry triggers that many traders use have absolutely zero predictive value and I know better than random? My Name's Adrian Reid and I'm the founder of Enlightened Stock Trading and I've been a systematic...
In this post I explain why you need trading software and why Amibroker is likely to be the best fit for your requirements. In addition I explain that for stock trading systems, the best data source is Metastock End of Day data because of the exceptional value for money and broad market coverage. You can access a special offer for a month free subscription to try out the Metastock data with Amibroker. I also have included detailed videos to demonstrate the subscription process, installation of Amibroker and the Metastock software and how to connect them so they work together seamlessly.
Have you ever discovered that something you believed with all your being was WRONG… or at least not as right as you thought? I had one of these experiences today when working on a stock trading system for one of my students. I realized that the initial stop loss that I was using was hurting system performance … so I took it out and BOOM performance improved dramatically!
Amibroker allows you to do a lot of analysis internally. However, when you are developing a trading system, sometimes you will need to export the portfolio equity curve for analysis in Excel after you run the backtest in Amibroker. This is not obvious in Amibroker so I created this video to show you how to easily do this export.