Assuming you’ve built a potentially profitable trading model in Excel, have backtested it thoroughly on multiple time frames, multiple historical periods, and multiple securities, and you are satisfied that it will be profitable over time, the next step is to...
Building the backtesting model begins with designing the data handling layout. Will you be manually inputting the historical price-volume data? Will the data come from a DDE link directly into Excel, or will it come from imported files such as .csv or .txt.? What does...
There are several ways to backtest an Excel trading model. You can do it visually by recording the buy, sell, and out signals given by your model in an Excel spreadsheet, including the date, time, and theoretical trade prices. This is very slow and cumbersome....
