Trading Software backtesting

So I just tried to find a decent software for backtesting HF strategies and as well as volatility arbitrage strategies...but didn't find anything to catch my attention (basically nothing about vol arb. and just 3 sites offering a demo of a HF software without mentioning the price). So anyway I was thinking: why not create it myself and market it to banks, hedge funds?? clearly there are many software apps for technical analysis, but very few for quantitative and all the sophisticated optionionilized things. thnx.

Agree with Jerry with a few additions: a) Hedge funds and banks have in-house programmers doing this stuff and they don't want to talk to you. It's unlikely that you are better than they are. b) Having outsourced code is always worse than in-house code because it's not modifiable to your needs, maintainable, expandable, etc.. You would be selling to start-up hedge funds who don't have lots of money. c) The phrase "sophisticated optionionilized things" makes me laugh. Not the best portent for your software.

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I want to know that the Tradestation software people giving facilty to trade thro' them with their software helps with datas for Backtesting. Is that datas can be downloaded from their server to our Hard disc directly ? and shall we have to pay for it if it is downloadable.?

This is a question that only they can answer.

Hi all. I'm looking into backtesting trading strategies for commodities. My problem is, that I can only test the currently available futures, but I want to test a specific commodity (eg- crude) and have the testing go back 5 years and switch to the next month's contracts when the current one expires in the testing, and so on. So I need some backtesting that works like I was testing a stock, but for a commodity. Do you know a way I can do this, or software to help. (I hope this explaination makes sense!).

Since most commodities stock chart has a 'life span', I don't think you would be able to do it. If you are doing back testing, then I would suggest you to look out for the current (spot) month chart.

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