Pretty often it can be interesting to backtest a strategy across several timeframes. In the simple case you want to have a signal on one timeframe and just want a confirmation for another higher timeframe. In this video, I will show you how easy it is to use multiple timeframes in Backtrader backtests in Python. Calculating Multi-Timeframe Backtests in Python with Backtrader Read More →
With the new update of PineScript language, it’s become very easy to add a backtesting range to TradingView Strategies. You can do that in 3 easy steps: Insert the following code in your strategy. You can add it after the last input you have in the code, this way you’ll have range inputs last in Adding Backtesting Range to TradingView Strategy in 3 lines of code Read More →
Quite often, when you work on advanced strategies only prie is not enough for you. You might want to use correlations between stocks, sentiment data, fundamentals, and so on. In this article, I will show you how you can use multiple data sources in Backtrader Strategies. So let’s assume I want to add additional conditions Using Multiple Datasets in Backtrader’s Strategies Read More →
Python is a very powerful language for backtesting and quantitative analysis. You’re free to use any data sources you want, you can use millions of raws in your backtesting easily. In this article, I show an example of running backtesting over 1 million 1 minute bars from Binance. Including libraries: Function to get data from Running a Massive Backtest on 1M Bars in Python with Backtrader Read More →
In this article, I will show you how you can parse web pages with R. For example I will take an option quotes page from Yahoo Finance. Here is a page with AAPL options for example: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/options?p=AAPL To parse it I will use “rvest” package, it’s really nice and it’s really easy to use it. Parsing Options Quotes from Yahoo Finance with R Read More →
TradingView has a really nice database of datasets: market data, fundamentals, etc. But sometimes when developing indicators or strategies you want to use a dataset that is not available within TradingView. Question I very ofter receive: “Can I use 3rd party data in TradingView ?” The quick answer is “no”, but there is 1 exception Using 3rd Party Data in TradingView Read More →
TradingView is limited in some ways and unfortunately, it’s not possible to create a custom screener in TradingView using standard features. However, you can create a simple screener using PineScript, receive screener filters as alerts, and even resend them to the telegram. Here I will show you how you can do that. Here you can How to create a custom screener in TradingView? Read More →
We live in a very nice world where access to data becomes more and more affordable. In this article I will show you 3 best free stocks API, in my opinion, you can use to get historical data for stocks. Some of these APIs are freemium, they have paid both free and paid plans. But Best Free API for Historical Stock Data – Examples in R Read More →
Alerts on strategies were introduced just recently in TradingView. These alerts have an alert_message placeholder which allows you to compose in PineScript very complex alerts and insert quite a lot of information in them. Here is just a very simple example of how they can look like. As you can see I added some information about the Example of fancy complex strategy alerts in TradingView Read More →
