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My review of StrategyQuant from strategyquant.com after 10 days of trial.
I believe it wasn't build with futures in mind.
From what I remember and as mentioned in my post you'd need to import continuous futures contract data.
I have noticed the version number hasn't moved. I had version 3.8 in 2015 and it's still the latest version available on their server.
I'd be a bit cautious investing money in this software if no serious update have been made in almost two years.
I got Strategyquant (SQ) in mid 2016. Tried to make it work with Futures and Ninjatrader. I gave that up for various reasons. The largest reason was that since SQ spits out millions of strategies there is a need to be able to test them in SQ and not in Ninjatrader. Since we can only use selected time frame in SQ with Ninjadata the accuracy is not there, You simply do not know if the result from your test match the reality. And how would you go about to test 1000 strategies in Ninjatrader Market replay. Well i tried and found that 99.99% failed and gave up.
But then i switched to MT4 and Forex and since November 2016 i have added strategies to Forex portfolios made in SQ and are today pretty happy that i did. It seems to work fine even thought it is just as much work making and testing strategies as before i had SQ but the reults is better and today i have 3 portfolios (41 strategies) that all are in profit. 15%, 8%, 6%. that are traded with real money. I also have 2 demo accounts were one are at 26% !! and one at 8 % profit. Now they have all had large drawdowns but have now made new highs which is cool. I would however claim that this works and actually Forex is not bad since you size you positions better and create hughe portfolios which are great for stability and minimising of stagnation and drawdowns.
StrategyQuant has gone through iterations since Christophe's review. Has anyone tried or been using SQ recently? What has been your experience so far? How does it compare to GSB, for example?
I bought an Ultimate SQX license mid-year but unfortunately, I have not had the time since then to really deep dive into the software and use the many online resources for learning and using the modules within SQ X. However, I did quite a bit of pre-purchase due diligence to understand what I was buying. The support guys at StrategyQuant had no hesitation in extending my trial period to allow me to test the ability to export out the SQX strategies and import them into MultiCharts.
From reading the previous review posts in this thread, I can see that the SQX software has changed a lot with many of the shortcomings previously raised now being covered. As a result, I recommend checking out the free trial if you really want to see the software before purchase.
If you haven't already seen this webpage, this is a crucial resource for matching up the strategies between SQX and MultiCharts: