If this is not the right place to post this, let me know. ====== Is there a decent piece of software that can easily test an instrument for basic ideas like after X amount of days in a row Y happens % of the time? Minimal or no coding? Thanks in advance
Robust backtesting of an idea is somewhat more complex and you need decent software to give you decent metrics on this, and handling of survivorship bias (that's more of a data issue though). For testing of a portfolio-based trading system based on those rules with relatively easy-to-understand formula language: RealTest AmiBroker If you have more programming experience under your belt (or are willing to learn) then there's various Python packages like Zipline and Backtrader that can do this too.