Backtesting trading systems

[alichambers]

Hi,

Is there a way in esignal to test different entry/exit strategies on a watchlist of, say, 600 stocks, like this:

ENTRY:
20 day SMA is rising
Stochastics %K (8,3,3) < 40
close price today is below 20 day SMA but above 50 day SMA

EXIT:
Trailing stop on low of each day + 0.5% of low price

Oh - I don't intend to use Advanced Get due to the high price.

Thanks - alex

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Alex,

Back Testing formulas only run on one symbol at a time. You could back test all 600 symbols, but not in an automated fashion. You would have to execute each test manually one at a time.

[alichambers]

Thanks - I didn't know that.

Alex