Strategy tester

Is designed to simulate trading in the different capital markets.

Unlike others it allows you to test different trading instruments: forex, shares, futures, CFD – you can work with any instrument preferable for you. Strategy tester is a teaching tool that enables you to learn how to improve your trading skills, and how to increase trade profitability; it saves up your time and money quickly turning you into experienced and successful professional.

Our story began in 2008 when one professional trader came up with an idea of the program which can serve all the needs of a common trader. Now, after 10 years of development, we are sure that this is an outstanding solution indispensable for any trader from rookie to market expert. We can say our program is the fastest and the most eligible way if you want to learn how to trade profitably.

Strategy tester: is just one of the four integral modules of MaxProfit software along with trader’s diary, In-depth analysis module, and trading journal. You don’t need to search for several programs - we deliver you all-in-one at a very competitive price or even give it to you for free under certain conditions.

It goes without saying that majority of amateurs leave the market immediately after they lose their first money. They don’t have enough experience, they are impulsive and inconsistent, and they also believe in everything others tell them even if they were told a different thing. Try strategy tester before you start your live trading. Strategy tester is a great opportunity to create, optimize and improve your own strategy or test the existing one, make sure it works and maximize your trading efficiency. If anything goes wrong and your strategy doesn’t work properly strategy tester will prove it to you in minutes.

We have a large repository of different financial instruments to widen your testing capabilities. We grant you access to more than 7500 stocks and futures, all currency pairs since plus silver and gold. Strategy tester recreates the atmosphere of the market of your interest, gives you a solid knowledge of how real market works and opens it for your experiments. You can turn back time and manually test strategies based on real price movements. With MaxProfit strategy tester you can start unlimited number of testing projects, stop, save and return to them anytime, compare one with other, improve them, find out which strategy generates profit, learn how to reduce your financial loss in critical situations, make sure you know how to act on a falling market during financial bust.

80+ indicators and oscillators will support your experiments: Average True Range, Bollinger Bands, Keltner Channel, MACDs, Moving Averages (Variable, Exponential, Triangular, Weighted, etc), Pivot Points, Parabolic-SAR, RSI, Standard Deviation, Stochastic Momentum Index, VYDIA and many others are equally available.

One can say that it is possible to find an appropriate trading strategy recommended by an expert and it will solve all the problems. Believe us or not but this is not true – it’s hardly possible to find an appropriate strategy on the internet. Hardworking, believing in your star and suitable environment (meaning MaxProfit software) will guarantee that you will not create a hole in your deposit.

When it comes to measurement of trader’s success those who succeeded in trading always outline the importance of strategies backtesting. Backtesting is the instrument of analysis based on historical market data to verify if a trading strategy would have worked in the past. Manual backtesting allows you to simulate monthly or even yearly price movements in just a few hours simultaneously testing several strategies and their variations.

Trade simulation is way safer than a demo or live accounts.

It’s almost impossible to learn how to trade using a demo account. You need years of trading experience to do it without additional instruments. With demo accounts, it takes time to open a required amount of trades. But MaxProfit strategy tester will prove it to you quickly if your strategy is not profitable or vice versa.

It’s imprudent to use live accounts because the risk of losing money is high and because live trading software wasn’t developed for backtesting. You will surely feel what the real market is, but you will lose your deposit quickly as there’s no system in your trading yet and your emotions are not under control. With strategy tester, you put yourself in the position when you’re unsure how the market is going to move, and this is your chance to prove your choice right or wrong then go back in time and choose another direction.

Other software developers can provide you with a pass to the single market or will suggest doing your tests online which is definitely insecure.

MaxProfit delivers all at once. Using our backtesting environment is a risk-free operation which gives you the chance to make your own mistakes without financial loss, the key to understand how to correct them in seconds and a clear path to what is called your perfect strategy.

Key parameters

• Supported markets: Forex, Stocks and Futures. Other instruments will be added in the nearest future.
• Timeframe: From 1 minute. Ticks and seconds will be added as soon as the necessary.
• Testing mode: Manual. You may create an unlimited number of projects, start and stop testing, do your work and then resume from the same place where you stopped.
• Where to take historical quotations? We provide the historical data for all currencies from 2009 and the database for 7500 stocks and futures. You may import your own data.
• What indicators are available? There are major indicators and even more. There are about 80 different indicators. It is likely that МТ4-to-MaxProfit converter will also be available. You may also develop an indicator yourself or order its development from a professional in accordance with your requirements.

As you can see, everything is very simple! There is almost no difference from any trading terminal. After you carry out the sufficient number of transactions, it is time to analyze them and make certain conclusions. Learn about reports management in Trading analysis section

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