Comments on: Gap Fade Stats for August http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/gap-fade-stats-for-august/ Helping traders overcome fears and emotions in trading Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:26:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Corey Rosenbloom http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/gap-fade-stats-for-august/comment-page-1/#comment-132861 Corey Rosenbloom Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:27:15 +0000 http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/?p=2901#comment-132861 Prospectus, I do - I import Yahoo's end-of-day data into Excel. I tried building this into TradeStation with intraday data and have found Excel easier to use because of the numerous calculations you can tease out and work with - I'm also more comfortable with Excel at the moment, though am working on more programming in TradeStation. Prospectus,

I do – I import Yahoo’s end-of-day data into Excel.

I tried building this into TradeStation with intraday data and have found Excel easier to use because of the numerous calculations you can tease out and work with – I’m also more comfortable with Excel at the moment, though am working on more programming in TradeStation.

]]> By: Corey Rosenbloom http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/gap-fade-stats-for-august/comment-page-1/#comment-132860 Corey Rosenbloom Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:25:38 +0000 http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/?p=2901#comment-132860 PW, I download data from Yahoo Finance on the DIA depending on how much data I want to test and then have created my own sheet in Excel that performs these calculations and sums them up for the final results. Once the calculations are in place, you just import the data and verify that the results are correct by comparing the results to a price chart. I don't know of any software (for free) that does this. It can also be programmed into TradeStation, TraDecision, or other strategy testing software. PW,

I download data from Yahoo Finance on the DIA depending on how much data I want to test and then have created my own sheet in Excel that performs these calculations and sums them up for the final results. Once the calculations are in place, you just import the data and verify that the results are correct by comparing the results to a price chart. I don’t know of any software (for free) that does this. It can also be programmed into TradeStation, TraDecision, or other strategy testing software.

]]> By: Prospectus http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/gap-fade-stats-for-august/comment-page-1/#comment-132805 Prospectus Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:19:08 +0000 http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/?p=2901#comment-132805 These stats are great! I assume you used end-of-day data? These stats are great! I assume you used end-of-day data?

]]> By: PW http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/gap-fade-stats-for-august/comment-page-1/#comment-132804 PW Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:05:19 +0000 http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/?p=2901#comment-132804 Hey Corey, This is an interesting study, is there software that you use to get your results? Mainly, is it something that I can find somewhere myself? Hey Corey,

This is an interesting study, is there software that you use to get your results? Mainly, is it something that I can find somewhere myself?

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