Excel based backtesting?

Discussion in 'Automated Trading' started by Scaramanga, Aug 25, 2010.

  1. Hello,

    Are there any good excel-based programs for strategy building and back-testing? Even better would be automated trading that interfaces with popular brokers api?

    Thx
     
  2. excel is not particularly well suited for backtesting performance wise.

    you may want to check out tradelink:
    * open source/free
    * works with 12+ different brokers
    * super-fast tick-based backtesting
    * supports both completely and partially automated strategies
    * works with equities/forex/futures/options
    * supports any .net programming language (if you can program in excel you can use tradelink

    http://tradelink.googlecode.com