StrategyQuant Review

Introduction

StrategyQuant is one of the best algo-trading/strategy development platforms available. I have decided to write an extended StrategyQuant review because more than 90% of all strategies I run on my MT4 are developed using this single tool. After many years of programming and testing for myself and also for other traders, I am 100% sure this is the proper way to go. So, what is so special about StrategyQuant? The idea is simple: StrategyQuant is based on an automatic (random or pre-configured) strategy generation using custom or standard chart indicators. For example, during configuration, when you define that you want to find and test all possible trading strategies using “Moving Average,” “RSI” and “Bollinger Bands” indicators, StrategyQuant will start generating and testing all possible combinations of all those indicators. This is just a simple example, since in the latest version (StrategyQuant X), it is also possible to add your own custom indicators and trading signals; the number of possibilities is simply unlimited.

StrategyQuant features

StrategyQuant V3 options are:



Automatic generation of strategies based on most common trading logic-blocks and also using standard and external indicators

Random strategy generation or generation by genetic evolution

Advanced strategy testing and optimization, to avoid curve fitting

Walk forward optimization

Automatic source code generation. No programming skills are required

External tick-data support (Including Dukascopy 99% accurate tickdata)

Multi currency backtesting

Multi strategy testing

Multi-core CPU support!

Optimization of existing strategies

Many more…

StrategyQuant X (new 2018 version!) options are:



All great features of SQ 3 + more new great features

Multi-market and multi-timeframe strategy generation

Automatic historical data import (download tick data with one push of a button)

Extendable with your own indicators and strategies

Displays trades on chart

Built in strategy editor (algo-wizard)

Improved user interface

Many more…

StrategyQuant workflow

The figure below represents a basic typical workflow of StrategyQuant:

1. Strategy generation