You are correct, fundjunkie, I should have explained more. I guess the relevance is as follows: What can this 1000k a month product (Rina) do, which TradersStudio can not with some coding, just as the following? a) Firstly, does Rina product have a script language and how much coding is involved ? b) Secondly, can I duplicate most of these features using TradersStudio between the script language it has and writing a DLL in VB 6.0 or VB .NET? I had realized that Rina software looks like with TS basic and a DLL in VB 6.0 or .NET and you could duplicate all the functionality. I mean to say that we can duplicate the features of Rina software in TradersStudio with a little coding such as with a script and a DLL or two. So, I am confused and do not really get it. I feel that I must be missing something somewhere, but what? So, I just thought someone could tell me what other things Rina can do, as it is cost $1000 US a month. Hope I have been able to explain well. Thanks!
I have been told that backtesting is not always accurate on how the system will perform in the future. What are your opinions on the same?
..backtesting is <del>not</del> always not accurate... couldn't resist.. Seriously, a large part of it has to due with the operator and how he/she goes about performing the backtest (e.g.'s, in/out of sample data, optimizing). I believe Acrary had some good posts on this awhile back.
Thanks, AmbushHillbilly. Checked up the posts of "Acrary", seems quite a number of posts. If possible, can you please give the links for the relevant posts? Thanks!
Derrick, Regarding your questions about how to go about backtesting a system, I thought I'd suggest a couple of books. You might benefit from checking out the following books as a starting place: The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies (Wiley Trading) by Robert Pardo New Trading Systems & Methods (Wiley Trading) by Perry J. Kaufman Best wishes, Nash
Hey, there's a new thread that compares trading platforms for portfolio trading specifically. Hopefully people have used some of them will make some comments. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=167963
Most of the threads at yahoo group are for those having TradersStudio. But, we people would like to know as to how TradersStudio looks like. So, have started a new thread as follows: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TradersStudio/message/316
I am new at trading. I am trying to develop my trading system using Trading Blox. I would like to know if someone has any comments on it. Thanks in advance