Backtesting In Amibroker

From idea to trading strategy through backtesting. Ready-made profitable strategies included!

What you'll learn

Get familiar with Amibroker - installation, charting, backtesting, data

Backtests - from simple intros to more advanced backtests

Learn basics of Amibroker scripting language

Backtesting concepts important for practical and successful trading

Connect backtest and trading - trade what you backtested

No need to purchase Amibroker full version for this course, free version will be sufficient up to some extent

Requirements

No previous experience is needed, though basics of trading concepts are helpful.

We start with Amibroker free version and the whole course can be done in free version, even though we will look at its limits.

Description

In this course we will learn how to use Amibroker - a robust, proven and high-quality backtesting tool.But much more than that! We will learn how to construct trading strategies from scratch and then we will build up a backtest, which discovers whether a strategy is profitable or not. For the course to be complete and useful, we will also look how to trade such strategy in the real live.You can complete the course with Amibroker free version, no need to buy full version, though it is recommendable.So we will start with the platform itself, then build up some backtesting basics, learn a few scripting functions just enough to construct a trading strategy and be able to backtest it and trade it. On the way, we will learn how to think like a trader!You can backtest anything which has a chart. We will focus primarily on stocks, but the same can be applied to crypto, currencties or futures.As we will need some scripting knowladge, I will teach you the basics of the AFL language. But no worry, this is not a professional coding and you will see that a good strategy can be coded in a few simple lines. That is actually one of the crucial ideas of the whole course - keep things simple, don't overcomplicate it. The best trading strategies are simple and so are the main principles of trading itself. I will also provide you with ready-made, backtested, profitable trading strategies, which you can just take and use right away for training purposes.I am adding all script codes as course Resources, so you can just copy paste it in your own Amibroker.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction and Amibroker basics

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Amibroker installation

Lecture 3 Charts - basics

Lecture 4 Charts - move around chart

Lecture 5 Charts - layouts

Lecture 6 Charts - sheets and panes

Lecture 7 Indicators

Section 2: Backtesting - basics

Lecture 8 Create first code and save it

Lecture 9 Our first simple backtest

Lecture 10 Backtester settings and configuration

Lecture 11 How to read the backtest report

Lecture 12 Coding outside bar indicator

Lecture 13 Coding Outside bar - backtest

Lecture 14 Amibroker documentation

Lecture 15 Amibroker code assistants

Section 3: Backtesting - intermediate

Lecture 16 Highest high indicator

Lecture 0 Breakout indicator

Lecture 17 Breakout - backtest

Lecture 18 Swing breakout - indicator and backtest

Lecture 19 Portfolio backtest

Lecture 20 Data and how to download and import free data

Lecture 21 Hitting the limits of free version and how to get full version

Lecture 22 Validation of backtest results

Lecture 23 Exrem function and validity of signals

Lecture 24 Refining and tuning our backtest

Lecture 25 Filter function and trading the backtest

Anybody who wants to learn backtesting or solidify already gained knowledge. Beginners to advanced traders, anybody can find her or his own topic in this course. Regarding scripting, you will learn enough to progress further on your own and you will be able to understand backtests from other sources.