Introducing.. TA Nucleus! The first technical analysis stock backtesting tool available on the mobile phone market. Make smarter trades that is supported by rigorous statistical backtests. Know your likelihood to win in the trade. No programming required!
Strategy backtesting is an essential tool to see if your trading strategy works out or not. With TA-Nucleus, you can now create, back-test and optimize your own trading strategy using historical data and then analyze its performance to validate your trading ideas.
Using the mobile front end, you simply do the following -
1. Select the ticker of interest,
2. Select the entry and exit technical indicators that you wish to test
3. Click backtest!
The mobile app connects to our backend servers and requests for it to start the backtest. Our servers run through a series of backtests over a large range of parameters on the full dividend- adjusted daily prices time-series dataset of the ticker. The backtest runs on multiple powerful 32-core backend servers, via the python backtest engine (implemented using the python algorithmic trading library) and presents to you the best selected strategy parameters based on risk return performance. Finally, the strategy’s performance characteristics, all in the form of simple, easy to understand summary reports and cumulative returns graphs are presented to you.
Key results that are presented include: Sharpe Ratios, Drawdowns, Edge / Trade, Returns, Cumulative returns graphs, Win Ratios and more!
With the backtest results, you can obtain push notifications / alerts for the strategy, by simply having the strategy ticker added to the watchlist.
After each backtest
1. Look through the key results of the backtest.
2. To follow and obtain alerts, save the strategy for the chosen ticker to the watchlist.
3. Receive Push Notifications and alerts the next time the strategy has an entry or exit trade!
Currently, this is available for the following indicators, and markets.
Indicators: MACD, Bollinger Breakout, SMA, DMA, TMA, ATR, RSI
Markets: SGX
* Backtesting is the process of testing a trading strategy on prior time periods. Instead of applying a strategy for the time period forward, which could take years, a trader can do a simulation of his or her trading strategy on relevant past data in order to gauge its effectiveness.