Designing and implementing a backtesting system
Now that we have an idea of designing a video game for creating a backtesting trading system, we can begin our object-oriented approach by first defining the required classes for the various components in our trading system.
We are interested in implementing a simple backtesting system to test a mean-reverting strategy. Using the daily historical prices from Google Finance, we will take the closing price of each day to compute the volatility of price returns for a particular stock, using the ticker symbol AAPL as an example. We want to test a theory that if the standard deviation of returns for an elapsed number of days is far from the mean of zero by a particular threshold, a buy or sell signal is ...
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