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Seattle +WA/USA
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Hello,
I am trying to decide what platform to use for backtesting some systematic trading strategies. What are the pros and cons for each of the following platforms
1. free edition
2. Amibroker ($339)
3. BackTrader (free)
I have a computer science programming background and can pretty much teach myself any programming language, so the programming language is not a barrier.
I want to keep costs minimal as I get started.
Things that I know I care about:
1. Reasonable backtesting speed.
2. Ability to jump to the candle chart for a trade and see trade markers for buy and sell points.
3. Good way to analyze (sharpe ratio, alpha, equity curves, benchmark comparison etc etc)
In addition to these there are a lot of other things that I do not know yet and will discover as I dig deeper.
Any guidance from people who have experience backtesting in these platforms will be very helpful.
Thanks,
trader609
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