Ready to try out some ideas in simulation

[bullet21]

hey guys,

thanks for the help thus far. Ive spent months pouring through dozens of books, websites and studying charts.

Ive got a few ideas and would like to sim trade them. So i can work out what kind of expectancy and RoR different systems output.

My only question is how do i go about this. I plan on using a discretionary method. If i buy Amibroker Pro and get a data feed will i be able to use that for simulations? I plan on trading intraday so that data will have to be reflective of this. Any other recommendations.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Twiddle]

Hi Bullet,

If you are interested in trading futures, I would suggest downloading Ninja trader, it is a very powerful program and it allows you to sim trade and backtest for free.

You can get a month simulation account for ninjatrader with mirus futures.
http://www.mirusfutures.com/

They use the Zen fire data feed which is very good.

 

[tech/a]

For forex this platform is awsome.
http://www.metatrader4.com/

 

[bullet21]

Hi Bullet,

If you are interested in trading futures, I would suggest downloading Ninja trader, it is a very powerful program and it allows you to sim trade and backtest for free.

You can get a month simulation account for ninjatrader with mirus futures.
http://www.mirusfutures.com/

They use the Zen fire data feed which is very good.

Yes i will be trading futures. So to do sim with Ninja trader i have to have a data feed?

 

[bullet21]

Yes i will be trading futures. So to do sim with Ninja trader i have to have a data feed?

sorry ive answered my own question. I set up the Mirus feed, my only question is why do the candles on all the charts appear as dashes? ie the have the same open and close price? is this some restriction on the trial version?

 

[Twiddle]

Bullet,

There are no restrictions with the demo data feed, it will give you full data for the instruments it supports. (which are all the big ones like ES, FTSE, FESX, DAX, major currencies etc, only drawback is no SPI...)

Have you set up the instruments in "instument manager" with the correct contract month?

For example FDAX 09-10 (The German stock index which trades between 4PM and 6AM Sydney time)

Once you have the correct instruments set up, you should be able to open charts up for that instrument, on the various time frames you want. If you are looking at a chart which has just a series of dashes at various levels you may be looking at an old contract month chart or something which is currently in a very low activity period.

I suggest adding FDAX 09-10 then taking a look at a 1 min or 5 min chart after work... during that time you will see how it should look and move etc.

 

[bullet21]

Bullet,

There are no restrictions with the demo data feed, it will give you full data for the instruments it supports. (which are all the big ones like ES, FTSE, FESX, DAX, major currencies etc, only drawback is no SPI...)

Have you set up the instruments in "instument manager" with the correct contract month?

For example FDAX 09-10 (The German stock index which trades between 4PM and 6AM Sydney time)

Once you have the correct instruments set up, you should be able to open charts up for that instrument, on the various time frames you want. If you are looking at a chart which has just a series of dashes at various levels you may be looking at an old contract month chart or something which is currently in a very low activity period.

I suggest adding FDAX 09-10 then taking a look at a 1 min or 5 min chart after work... during that time you will see how it should look and move etc.

Spot on mate, worked a treat.