Thursday, January 10, 2008

Where is my FX trade program?

These days I am trying to find a good FX trading system can do the backtesting. Most of them are designed for stocks only. This one is for Foreign Exchange. I have played around with it for a while. But the result is frustrate.

http://code.google.com/p/truetrade/


Downloaded the zip package and installed the MySQL. The problem is it keeps give me the uncached null pointer exception. The view is failed to load. And I checked their forum, seems I am not the only one has this problem. For the project activity, there are no new updates since May 2007. I am not sure should go this one.

Eclipse Trader is a good choice too. A lot of developers are working on it. The thing is it works for Stock Trading only. And seems it concentrates on the real time trade thing. Not what I am needed a great tool for backtesting. This one is easy to install too, just download the package and run it. Did not get any trouble with it.

A good backtesting tool is very helpful. Because you can use your backteting tool separately. You can do you test with the off-line data. And when you feel good with it, you can implement your strategy and test on the real time data. Without backtesting, you will be the same as gambling on the market.

Another one need to mention is http://aiotrade.com/. It is designed for stock too, I have asked the author and he said it's easy to change to FX. The advantage of this "AIOtrade" is the backtesting part. And you just follow the instruction to download, it works fine with a good UI. This is the owner's blog
http://blogtrader.net/

His Neural network predicting module is really cool.
http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/category/Trading

Need to decide one and go with it. Where is mine perfect?

This is one of the Java version NN. Will try to mention more Data Mining and Machine learning thing later.

http://www.jooneworld.com/

1 comment:

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