Video tutorials

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom indicator, which is then charted.

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. Charts some price bars.
2. Adds an indicator to the chart - the LOW minus 0.3%
3. Creates a custom indicator implementing the Chandelier Stop.
4. Adds the Chandelier Stop indicator to the chart.

It's probably better NOT TO WATCH this video tutorial if you are new to ATM, and especially if you're not good with computers. Custom indicators are the hardest things to understand, and you are totally going to get the wrong impression about this software. ATM comes with a whole number of pre-made custom indicators, so most likely you will not need to create one of your own.

On the other hand, if you can understand this then the rest of the software will be a cinch.

Click here to watch the video, and use the browser's back button to come back. Or click here to open in a new window.
 

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.

Click here to watch the video, and use the browser's back button to come back. Or click here to open in a new window.
 

See also:

• Video: Downloading historical prices from FXCM
• Video: Loading text files and creating price bars

This tutorial starts from a brand new settings file, loads a text file of historical tick prices, creates price bars from those ticks, and charts the price bars. The file in question was obtained from Gain Capital, but the theory is the same for text files from any source.

Note, however, that the file we used in this particular case was an older one. Gain Capital's newer files are slightly different. See the settings to use on the File Loader window.

This tutorial assumes:

1. You started ATM, created a new settings file, opened it, and ATM is sitting there ready to go.
2. You downloaded some text files containing historical prices.

This tutorial does these things:

1. Loads the historical tick prices from the files.
2. Creates 10-Minute bars from the ticks.
3. Creates Hourly bars from the 10-Minute.
4. Charts the 10-Minute bars.

A very similar process is described (in words) in this post.

Click here to watch the video, and use the browser's back button to come back. Or click here to open in a new window.
 

See also:

• Video: Backtesting

This tutorial starts from a brand new settings file and goes through to downloading historical prices from FXCM.

It assumes:

1. You installed the FXCM bits when you installed ATM.
2. You started ATM, created a new settings file, opened it, and ATM is sitting there ready to go.
3. You used this information to go and open an FXCM demo account, and also you logged in to that account using the FXCM trading platform and got your account number.

In this tutorial:

1. Try to download prices, but realise you need to create a Data Manager entry first.
2. Try to create a Data Manager entry, but realise you need to create a User first.
3. Enter the FXCM demo user and account details.
4. Create the Data Manager entry for EUR/USD, Daily, FXCM.
5. Start the download.

This is the opposite order to that demonstrated in this video tutorial. But actually the method on this current page is more intuitive and also works out to be a bit quicker.

Anyway... let's download some EUR/USD Daily bars...

Click here to watch the video, and use the browser's back button to come back. Or click here to open in a new window.
 

See also:

• Video: Backtesting

This tutorial starts from a brand new settings file and goes through to downloading historical prices from FXCM.

It assumes:

1. You installed the FXCM bits when you installed ATM.
2. You started ATM, created a new settings file, opened it, and ATM is sitting there ready to go.
3. You used this information to go and open an FXCM demo account, and also you logged in to that account using the FXCM trading platform and got your account number.

This tutorial does these things:

1. Enters the FXCM demo user and account details.
2. Creates the Data Manager entry for EUR/USD, Daily, FXCM.
3. Starts the download.

We, as creators of the software, know the pre-requisites and create them first. However, a normal person just knows that they want to download prices, so they might try that first without entering any of the pre-requisite information. There's a sister video tutorial doing it that way as well.

Ok, so... let's download some EUR/USD Daily bars...

Click here to watch the video, and use the browser's back button to come back. Or click here to open in a new window.
 

See also:

• Video: Backtesting