Thinking Stuff's ATM

Automated Trading Machine (ATM) makes it simple to remove fear and greed from your trading. Automated trading is no longer just for the rich or nerdy. Our revolutionary software runs on your computer, using your trading rules, but none of your emotions. There's just one requirement - you know how to use a mouse.  Learn more...

Thinking Stuff's ATE

Automated Trading Execution (ATE) is where we run your trading systems for you on our servers. Your system can be exported from ATM, or written in plain English and we'll make it for you. We'll even backtest and suggest improvements if you want us to. This service essentially automates your automated trading.  Learn more...

Thinking Stuff's Groups

Join a group of like-minded individuals, and help each other to trading success. Once you join a group, you will have access to that group's trading systems, ideas, and feedback. And please contribute your own knowledge as much as possible. Or contact us to start your own group.  Learn more...

Trading ideas

Video: Backtesting

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a trading system, and then backtest that system using historical price bars.

It assumes:

  1. You started ATM and opened a settings file.
  2. That settings file already has some price bars in it.
  3. ATM is sitting there ready to go.

This tutorial does these things:

  1. Creates a trading system.
  2. Creates a backtest configuration entry.
  3. Runs the backtest.
  4. Views the chart. We decide how the system might be made better.
  5. Edits the trading system.
  6. Runs the backtest again.
  7. Views the chart again to see if we did actually make it better or not.

There are several objective ways of determining if a price is trending or ranging, and the trading system we create in this tutorial was inspired by the Two Bollinger Bands method. For a stop loss we use the Chandelier Stop described in more detail here.

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