Part One: Setting Up Your Account
- Selecting and opening your account
- Setting up your data
- Open an account at https://tradestation.com
Part Two: No Code Automated Back Testing
- Add a strategy
- Run the strategy
- View results
- Modify the inputs
Part Three: Simple Code Editing
- View the strategy code
- Do not be intimidated
- Copy and save as a new strategy
- See that changing input values in the code doesn’t change the results
- Change a variable or logic statement
- Make a small change, Test, Make a small change, Test
Part Four: Quickly Prove Your Ideas With Custom Scripting
- Suggested reading “EasyLanguage Essentials”
- Reference similar strategies for ideas
- Start simple and remember your real goal
Part Five: Automated Optimization and Stress Testing
- Get clues for further optimization
- See Toddler mode run on autopilot
- Tabular data view and export
- Basics of setting alerts
- Remember to not get lost in the “Quantum Realm” and to get through the “Dead Marshes” quickly