Resources
The tools and books that round out your backtesting: trading journals, live charts, automated analysis and books worth keeping within reach.
· Charts, indicators and scanners
- Charting
TradingView review: live charts, free or paid?
What TradingView gives you for free, when paying for a plan makes sense, and why it works better alongside your backtesting than instead of it.
- Technical analysis
TrendSpider review: automated technical analysis
What TrendSpider automates, which markets it's built for, and how it differs from manual, candle-by-candle backtesting.
- Indicators
LuxAlgo review: indicators and AI-powered analysis
What LuxAlgo is, what you get for free, what its indicators are for, and why no signal replaces validating your strategy with data.
- Scanner
Trade Ideas review: the AI-powered stock scanner
What the Trade Ideas scanner does, how Holly AI works, which market it's built for and what to check before you subscribe.
· Market news and data
- Market data
Koyfin review: market data and charts on one dashboard
What Koyfin is, what its free plan offers and when paying for it helps you read the market context before you trade.
- News
Benzinga Pro review: real-time market news
What Benzinga Pro offers, why news speed matters for day traders and when you don't need to pay for it.
- Stock analysis
Seeking Alpha review: stock analysis and Quant Ratings
What Seeking Alpha is, what changes between the free version and Premium, and how to use its ratings without outsourcing your judgment.
- Stock analysis
InvestingPro review: is the paid version worth it?
What InvestingPro adds to Investing.com, what it isn't (it's not a broker) and how to read its metrics without treating them as recommendations.
· Trading journals
- Trading journal
Edgewonk review: the trading journal that analyzes your data
What Edgewonk does, which kind of trader it suits, and how it fits with the log you already keep when you backtest.
- Trading journal
TraderSync review: an AI-powered trading journal
What TraderSync is, how it analyzes your trades with AI, and how it differs from Edgewonk, Tradervue and TradeZella.
- Trading journal
Tradervue review: the veteran trading journal
What Tradervue is, what its free plan lets you do, and which reports justify paying for a plan.
- Trading journal
TradeZella review: trading journal and performance stats
What TradeZella is, what changes between its plans, and how it fits with the backtesting practice you already do.
· Order flow software
- Order flow
ATAS review: volume and order flow analysis software
What ATAS is, what its footprint, heatmap and delta show, and which traders actually benefit from volume analysis.
- Order flow
Bookmap review: a heatmap of market liquidity
What Bookmap is, how to read its order book heatmap, and when it adds something a regular candlestick chart can't.
- Order flow
Quantower review: modular volume analysis
What Quantower is, how its free-version-plus-extensions model works, and which volume tools it includes.
- Order flow
MZpack review: order flow for NinjaTrader 8
What MZpack is, which indicators it adds to NinjaTrader 8, and why its lifetime license changes the math compared with a subscription.
· Infrastructure
- Infrastructure
ForexVPS review: a VPS for MetaTrader and other platforms
What a forex VPS is, when you genuinely need one, and what to look at in ForexVPS before you sign up.
- Infrastructure
Tradesyncer review: a cloud-based trade copier
What Tradesyncer does, which platforms it connects to, and the risks of copying trades across several of your own accounts.
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