Test Your Trading Ideas
Learn to turn trading observations into measurable rules and test them against historical data.
- Prerequisite
- Build Your Trading Framework or equivalent experience, and comfort with spreadsheets. Guided notebooks introduce the Python you need.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Includes
- Quantfolio
- Format
- Live online · 1:1 or group
- Schedule & fee
- Agreed on your intro call
Is this for you?
Traders who have a written process and want evidence for whether their ideas work.
Ideas are judged on a few memorable trades instead of a fair test across many market conditions.
What you’ll be able to do
- Turn an observation into a precise rule that can be tested.
- Run a historical test in a spreadsheet and repeat it in a guided Python notebook.
- Read performance measures such as win rate, average gain and loss, and maximum drawdown.
- Include transaction costs and check results on data kept aside during development.
Modules
- From observation to rule
- Working with historical data
- A spreadsheet test
- The same test in Python
- Measuring performance
- Costs, unseen data and common errors
- Writing the test report
The outline can be tailored to your goals.
A documented strategy and historical test report.
- Strategy specification
- Spreadsheet and notebook versions of the test
- Test report including costs and an unseen-data check
Tools & data
- Spreadsheet
- Python with pandas in Jupyter notebooks (guided)
- Quantfolio
Daily prices for PSX-listed shares and the KSE-100 index · International equity indices, forex pairs including USD/PKR, and commodities
Questions
Will a good test result mean the strategy will work?
No. A historical test is evidence about the past under stated assumptions. The course shows how to judge how much that evidence can be trusted.
How much Python will I write?
Notebooks are guided. You will edit and run code rather than write programs from scratch.
How is it taught, and what does it cost?
Live online, one-on-one or in a small group. Schedule and fee are agreed with you on a free intro call.
Will this course guarantee trading results?
No. It builds knowledge and skills. It does not guarantee profits.
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