I have been trying to build skills being a day trader or scalper, so I've just been paper trading to test my strategies. Should I look into back testing? What back testing softwares are the easiest, but most powerful to use? Do most of you program your strategies in a software and then execute those strategies in a different platform? Or is your platform integrated for back testing and then automated order executions?
Tradestation.com - Tradestation platform Metatrader 4 (GCI covers futures) (Any other broker for forex)
I agree I really do not see an easy way to backtest. Either create your own, manually back test with charts, learn easy language from tradestation etc.