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08/09/16

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Originally posted by SaberX ↑

.....Your analysis of stocks therefore brings up a crucial question of mine with charting and software in terms of analysing. In the current it is easy to pull up comparable charts and to picture and interpret action now. But say one wanted to 'study' as you have described, and you had a few stocks back in March 2015 that you wanted to analyse. I haven't come across a chart that can 'whizz you back' to what you would have seen in your charting software form that point of view, rather than a hindisght chart that shows March 2015 (but also all of the subsequent movements).

In other words I am wondering if there is a way to almost 'practice study' in the past. Or even "scan" for price patters and indicators in the past, make trading decisions (paper) and trace how they went?? Currently one can scan for indicators (to which is another question in itself, that I have to answer i.e. what indicators or trading strategy will I impliment to indicate an entry) but is there a way to do so in the past?

It's almost more of a backtesting/practice study in the past, that I am wondering is possible? I am trialing incredible charts now due to its cheap feed, but previously was on IC Investor. I have seen insight trader and market analyst (i think that was the name) which allowed you to zoom in and out of timeframes quickly , whereas ones like incredible charts i found alot more robotic and not so pleasant to the user experience in quickly moving to old time periods......

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look into AmiBroker, you can set this up with free EOD data from Yahoo while you are learning the software, then move to a PremiumData subscription to get clean up to date data when you're ready for it. There's no end of available scanning and back-testing code available for AmiBroker online from various blogs, websites, Yahoo Groups etc, also the support is very good. There are also several ebook guides available free online.
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