Developing Profitable Trading Strategies: A Beginner’s Guide to Backtesting using Microsoft Excel [Second Edition]

Have you ever had an investment idea or heard of someone else€s advertised trading strategy and wondered if it would really work? Do you know which technical indicators are effective and which are worthless? Do you know how long to trade an under-performing strategy before bailing out?

This beginner€s guide will answer these questions and more. In it, you will learn how to set-up, develop, optimize and trade stock market strategies. You€ll also learn:

• How to backtest an investment idea


• How to judge a strategy€s performance for robustness


• How to optimize buy/sell rules


• How to predict future returns


• How to execute a strategy in real time


• How long you should commit to a trading system