Currency Forex Trading System - How To Test Any Forex Trading Strategy By Using This Unique Method

By Peter Lim

With the popularity of forex trading since middle of year 2004 when it even overtook the interest in futures and commodities trading, we have seen a lot of forex trading systems being developed. As new technology evolved, we have also seen the power of the desktop computer being harnessed for running trading platforms involving all sorts of forex trading systems instead of using computer mainframes.

The usual way most traders would want to test their forex trading systems is to use a forex strategy builder and back test on historical data, and then to discover what parameters in that trading strategy are important to the results, and to forward test again on past historical data to check the results.

Some traders will merely back test historical data, and then run the system to test on simulated data. If they find that the system could generate good results based on the system parameters, they then adopt the system for actual use in real trading instead of a paper trade.

There is a lesser known way of testing a forex trading system, and that is to actually port the trading system to test it on actual historical individual stock data.

In other words, you can use the forex trading strategy to test it on historical stock data and to check how the system performed with stock market data.

Stocks and shares normally have less volatility then forex, the difference being trading stocks and shares would involve a study of accompanying volume. In contrast, we are concerned with price and time action in forex and not volume. Further. many forex traders are more familar with trading stocks and shares, and to use a forex trading system on stocks and shares would allow the trader who is transiting from trading stocks and shares to trading forex, an easier way to learn how to trade forex.

A general guideline for testing a forex trading system with individual stock data is this - if you find the forex trading system to perform well with an individual stock data, returning profits consistently, you can have reasonable confidence that the same forex trading system will function as well for trading forex itself. If the forex trading system does not perform well with stocks and shares, the general understanding is that the system may not be robust enough for the volatility and velocity of trades inherent with trading forex.

As always, this is not a dogma, but a general guideline. That is why any forex trading strategy or system have to be tested prior to being adopted for trading.

What is significant is that you can uncover the power of a forex trading stratgey to use on trading stocks and shares in this manner. Some forex trading strategies have been performing very well on stocks and shares, and it follows that these will also perform as well with forex.

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