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How To Backtest a Trading Strategy Using Excel
A great way to improve your trading and become more profitable. This book shows you how you can use Microsoft Excel to create and test trading strategies.
Whether you use an established trading methodology or create your own. It presents a step-by-step approach that anyone can follow. All the information needed is within the book and it is not necessary to have previous knowledge of Excel.
You will learn how to program technical indicators like moving averages and the MACD. In addition, the course shows how to program Japanese Candlesticks into Excel.
Whether your trading strategy is long-only or long/short this book will show you how it can be backtested in Excel. The backtest models shown in the course allow you to test different parameters and then use them to optimise your strategy.
The books also presents tips and advice on how to backtest correctly and what to look for when testing a model.
Whether you use an established trading methodology or create your own. It presents a step-by-step approach that anyone can follow. All the information needed is within the book and it is not necessary to have previous knowledge of Excel.
You will learn how to program technical indicators like moving averages and the MACD. In addition, the course shows how to program Japanese Candlesticks into Excel.
Whether your trading strategy is long-only or long/short this book will show you how it can be backtested in Excel. The backtest models shown in the course allow you to test different parameters and then use them to optimise your strategy.
The books also presents tips and advice on how to backtest correctly and what to look for when testing a model.
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57 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 2, 2013
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January 14, 2023Sound process
This book gives excellent principles and means to test and optimize strategies.
It presents pitfalls and caveats.
It’s good starting points for beginners.
Once understanding the principles, it will easy for the trader to use trading software functionalities that allow testing in even more depth.
Excellent work.
I highly recommend this book.
This book gives excellent principles and means to test and optimize strategies.
It presents pitfalls and caveats.
It’s good starting points for beginners.
Once understanding the principles, it will easy for the trader to use trading software functionalities that allow testing in even more depth.
Excellent work.
I highly recommend this book.
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