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Is It a Good Idea? Learn How to Back Test Trading Ideas Before Risking Capital

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Backtesting is can be an important part of refining market strategies. TradeStation’s platform includes tools for analyzing trade ideas and methods. This instructional webinar covers how traders can use both long and short entries on an unlimited number of ideas, explaining key measures like and graphs. The goal is to help traders quickly spot strengths and weaknesses in their ideas.

Viewers will learn:

  • The use of TradeStation’s Strategy Performance Report metrics and graphs
  • A parameter-based optimization process
  • How to automate strategies to monitor orders and positions

About the author

David Russell
David Russell is VP of Market Intelligence at TradeStation Group. Drawing on two decades of experience as a financial journalist and analyst, his background includes equities, emerging markets, fixed-income and derivatives. He previously worked at Bloomberg News, CNBC and E*TRADE Financial. Russell systematically reviews countless global financial headlines and indicators in search of broad tradable trends that present opportunities repeatedly over time. Customers can expect him to keep them apprised of sector leadership, relative strength and the big stories – especially those overlooked by other commentators. He’s also a big fan of generating leverage with options to limit capital at risk.

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