Best Trading Strategies

Forex, Stocks, Options, Eminis and Commodities Trading Strategies

Backtesting Commodities?

June 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Futures Trading Strategies



Hi all. I’m looking into backtesting trading strategies for commodities. My problem is, that I can only test the currently available futures, but I want to test a specific commodity (eg- crude) and have the testing go back 5 years and switch to the next month’s contracts when the current one expires in the testing, and so on. So I need some backtesting that works like I was testing a stock, but for a commodity.
Do you know a way I can do this, or software to help.
(I hope this explaination makes sense!).


Other Related Sites

Share and Enjoy:
  • Print
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Blogplay

Tags: · · · · · ·




One Comment so far ↓

  • Alfred Chew

    Since most commodities stock chart has a ‘life span’, I don’t think you would be able to do it.

    If you are doing back testing, then I would suggest you to look out for the current (spot) month chart.

Leave a Comment

CommentLuv Enabled

This site uses KeywordLuv. Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.