Simple to use, asset allocation strategies, data since 1992

Time series momentum and moving average strategies on ETFs

Simple Momentum and Simple Value stock-picking strategies

currently free

Equities, options, futures, currencies, baskets and custom synthetic instruments are supported

Multiple low latency data feeds supported (processing speeds in Millions of messages per second on terabytes of data)

C# and .Net based strategy backtesting and optimization

Multiple brokers execution supported, trading signals converted into FIX orders

price on request at sales@deltixlab.com

QuantDEVELOPER – framework and IDE for trading strategies development, debugging, backtesting and optimization, available as a Visual Studio plug-in

QuantDATACENTER – allows to manage a historical data warehouse and capture real-time or ultra low latency market data from providers and exchanges

QuantENGINE – allows to deploy and execute precompiled strategies

multi-asset, multi-period low latency data, multiple brokers supported

demo version available at https://www.quanthouse.com/Demo.html

OpenQuant – C# and VisualBasic.NET portfolio level system backtesting and trading, multi-asset, intraday level testing, optimization, WFA etc., multiple brokers and data feeds supported

QuantTrader – production trading environment

QuantBase – centralized data management

QuantRouter – data and order routing

price on request at sales@smartquant.com

Multi-asset solution, multiple data feeds supported, database supports any type of RDBMS providing a JDBC interface, e.g. Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL etc.

Clients can use IDE to script their strategy in either Java, Ruby or Python, or they can use their own strategy IDE

Multiple brokers execution supported, trading signals converted into FIX orders

price on request at sales@marketcetera.com

Multi-asset solution (forex, options, futures, stocks, ETF’s, commodities, synthetic instruments and custom derivative spreads etc.), multiple data feeds supported

Framework for trading strategies development, debugging, backtesting and optimization

Multiple brokers execution supported, trading signals converted into FIX orders (IB, JPMorgan, FXCM etc.)

price on request at https://www.algotrader.com/about-us/contact/

Daily & intraday data (us stocks for 43+years, futures for 61+ years)

Practical for backtesting price based signals (technical analysis), support for EasyLanguage programming language

Supporting US stocks & ETFs, futures, US indexes, German stocks, German indexes, forex

free for Tradestation brokerage clients

$249.95 monthly for non-professionals (Tradestation software platform only, without brokerage)

$299.95 monthly for professionals (Tradestation software platform only, without brokerage)

Supporting daily/intraday strategies, portfolio level testing and optimization, charting, visualization, custom reporting, multi-threaded analysis, 3D charting, WFA analysis etc.

Best for backtesting price based signals (technical analysis)

Direct link to eSignal, Interactive Brokers, IQFeed, myTrack, FastTrack, QP2, TC2000, any DDE compliant feed, MS, txtfiles and more (Yahoo Finance …)

one time fee $279 for Standard edition or $339 for Professional edition

Portfolio level system backtesting and trading, multi-asset, intraday level testing, optimization, visualization etc.

Allows R integration, auto-trading in Perl scripting language with all underlying functions written in native C, prepared for server co-location

Native FXCM and Interactive Brokers support

free FXCM support, $100 per month for IB platform, contact Sales@seertrading.com for other options

Supporting daily/intraday strategies, portfolio level testing and optimization – best for backtesting price based signals (technical analysis), C# scripting – software extensions supported – data feeds handling, strategy execution etc.

$399 per licence, $150 yearly fee after

Axioma or 3rd party data

Factor analysis, risk modelling, market cycle analysis

price on request at sales@axioma.com

Best for backtesting price based signals (technical analysis), supporting daily/intraday strategies, portfolio level testing and optimization

Turtle Edition – backtesting engine, graphs, reports, EoD testing

Professional Edition – plus system editor, walk forward analysis, intraday strategies, multi-threaded testing etc.

Pro Plus Edition – plus 3D surface charts, scripting etc.

Builder Edition – IB API, debugger etc.

Turtle Edition $990

Professional Edition $1,990

Pro Plus Edition $2,990

Builder Edition $3,990

Supporting daily/intraday strategies, portfolio level testing and optimization, charting, visualization, custom reporting etc.

Best for backtesting price based signals (technical analysis)

Direct link to Interactive Brokers, MB Trading, TD Ameritrade, FXCM and others

Data from text files, eSignal, Google Finance, Yahoo finance, IQFeed and others

basic functionality (EoD functionality) – free

advanced functionality – lease from $50 / month or $995 lifetime license

Best for backtesting price based signals (technical analysis), supporting daily/intraday strategies, portfolio level testing and optimization, charting, visualization, custom reporting

Supports C# and Visual Basic.NET

Direct link to Interactive Brokers, IQFeed, txtfiles and more (Yahoo Finance …)

perpetual license – $499

lease $50 per month

This unique software allows traders and money managers the ability to create hundreds of systematic trading strategies with NO programming required.

Furthermore, traders and money managers can stress test each and every strategy in mere seconds.

Everything is point and click.

price on request at David@buildalpha.com

Analyse factor performance across US, European and Asian markets

Combine factors & build multi-factor portfolios on a web-based backtesting platform

Get daily or weekly portfolio updates via email and download stocks for execution

basic package is $99 per month, premium $249 per month.

Zorro is a free tool for executing financial algorithms.

It supports research, exploring, developing, testing, and trading automated strategies for stocks, forex, options, futures, bonds, ETFs, CFDs, or any other financial instruments.

It can run either as a stand-alone system with direct broker/market connection, or as an attachment to a trading platform that is used for connecting to the broker.

free

Supporting daily/intraday strategies, portfolio level testing and optimization

Best for backtesting price based signals (technical analysis)

Build-in data for equities, futures and forex (daily US stocks from 1990, daily futures 31+ years, forex from 1983 etc.)

pricing from $45 / month to $295 / month (prices depends on data availability)

Uses MQL4 language, used mainly to trade forex market

Supports multiple forex brokers and data feeds

Supports managing of multiple accounts

free

10 years daily financial and price data for US stocks and ETF’s

Supports technical/fundamental indicators, custom formulas

Fundamental alerts can be set up straight from a backtest or screen

free – save your work, limited rules, limited history

$10/month – stock alerts, premade strategies, financial charts

$25/month – complete backtester

$50/month – full financial and price history

US stocks & ETFs (daily)

Point-in-time fundamental data since 1999

Long/short strategies, prices/fundamentals driven signals

“Designer” – $139 / month

“Manager” – $199 / month – complete functionality

US stocks prices (daily/intraday), since 1998, data from QuantQuote

Forex data from FXCM

Supporting Trader.com & Interactive Brokers for live trading

currently free

This product is for use of low, medium, high frequency traders/researchers. All computations are made using high frequency market data which benefits low and high frequency traders/researchers.

Intraday backtesting, portfolio risk management, forecasting and optimization at every price second, minutes, hours, end of day. Model inputs fully controllable.

8k+ market tick data sources since 2012 (stocks, indices & ETFs traded on NASDAQ). Clients can also upload his own market data (e.g.: Chinese stocks).

40+ portfolio metrics (VaR, ETL, alpha, beta, Sharpe ratio, Omega ratio, etc.)

supports R, Matlab, Java & Python

10+ portfolio optimizations

price on request at sales@portfolioeffect.com

US stocks and ETFs prices (daily/intraday), since 2002

Fundamental data from Morningstar (over 600 metrics)

Supporting Interactive Brokers for live trading

currently free

It offers considerable benefits to traders, and provides significant advantages over competing platforms.

It comes with high definition charting, support for 20+ data feeds and 10+ brokers, dynamic portfolio-level strategy backtesting, EasyLanguage support, interactive performance reporting, genetic optimization, market scanner, data replay, and 300+ strategies and indicators.

MultiCharts has received many positive reviews and awards over the years, praising its flexibility, powerful features, and great support.

Try the 30 day free trial now!

30 days demo – for free

3 months license – $297; 6 months licence – $497; 12 months license – $797

MultiCharts lifetime $1,497

Up to 25 years data for 49 Futures and S&P500 stocks

Toolbox in Python and Matlab

Hosts algorithmic trading competitions with investments ranging from 500k to 1 million $

currently free

Backtest in two clicks

Browse the strategy library, or build and optimize your strategy

Paper trading, automated trading, and real-time emails

$1 per backtest and less

FX (Forex/Currency) data on major pairs, going back to 2007

Second/Minute/Hourly/Daily bars

Live trading compatible with any broker that is using Metatrader 4 as its backend

currently free

Quantitative Stock Screener and Backtester

18,000 stocks covering the last 20 years, data comes from Morningstar, with macroeconomic data from Quandl

Built-int formula and function editor

Basic Member – $35/Month

Charter Member – $50/Month

Professional – $100/Month

Supports backtesting of multiple trading strategies in a single unified portfolio.

Supports dozens of intraday and daily bar types.

Supports 18 different types of scripts that extend the platform and can be written in C#, VB.NET, F# and R.NET.

Supports a Connectivity SDK which can be used to connect the platform to any data or brokerage provider.

Professional Edition – $99/Month

Enterprise Edition – $299/Month

No programming skills needed

Monte carlo analysis

Walk-forward optimizer and cluster analysis tools

More than 40 indicators, price patterns, etc.

Build, re-test, improve and optimize your strategy

Free historical tick data

free 14-day trial, then $1490

Composite commitments of traders (COT)

Long-term historical data

Volume & open interest indicator

Term structure visualization

Visualization of hedgers and speculators

free

DLPAL software solutions have evolved from the first application developed 18 years ago for automatically identifying strategies in historical data that fulfill user-defined risk and reward parameters and also generating code for a variety of backtesting platforms.

DLPAL S discovers automatically systematic trading strategies in any timeframe based on parameter-less price action anomalies. Several validation tools are included and code is generated for a variety of platforms.

DLPAL DQ is an end-of-day scanner for discretionary traders. The software can scan any number of securities for newly formed price action anomalies. Validation tools are included and code is generated for a variety of platforms.

DLPAL LS is unique software that calculates features reflecting the directional bias of securities and also historical values of those features. The software is used by hedge funds for the development of directional and long/short trading strategies based on fixed algos or machine learning using generated train and score files. The results of this software cannot be replicated easily by competition.

contact info is: Michael Harris, pal@priceactionlab.com

Free Stock Ratings, Seasonal Analysis, Charts & Fundamentals

Free + Freemium model

effective data handling and storage facility, graphical facilities for data analysis, easily extended via packages

recommended extensions – quantstrat, Rmetrics, quantmod, quantlib, PerformanceAnalytics, TTR, portfolio, portfolioSim, backtest, etc.

free

parallel and GPU computing, backtesting and optimization, extensive possibilities of integration etc.

price on request

users can use VBA to build strategies for BacktestingXL Pro, VBA knowledge is optional, users can construct trading rules on a spreadsheet using standard pre-made backtesting codes

supports pyramiding, short/long position limiting, commission calculation, equity tracking, out-of-money controlling, buy/sell price customizing

multiple performance/risk reports

$74.95 for BacktestingXL Pro

recommended extensions – pandas (Python Data Analysis Library), pyalgotrade (Python Algorithmic Trading Library), Zipline, ultrafinance etc.

free

The intuitive interface. Strategies “programming” by mouse or in C#.

Built-in back tester and trade connections to all markets (including US, Asian, stocks, futures, options, Bitcoins, Forex, etc.)

“Visual” programming

Backtesting and optimization

C# language as optional

free

simple to use, entry-level web-based backtesting tool to test relative strength and moving average strategies on ETFs

several types of strategies for free, complete backtesting functionality $34,99 monthly

US stocks, data from ValueLine from 1986-2014

price and fundamental data, 1700 stocks, monthly granularity test

free

1-minute level data stream for Equity and Futures

Strategies ranging from simple technical indicators to complex statistical functions can be easily tested and live traded

Share and earn on profitable trading strategies through marketplace

Over 40+ pre-developed Algorithms available on different sets of indicators, and statistical functions

Live Trading Integration Available at a click

free

Automatically generates trading strategies and writes code in a variety of languages using ML

Tests Out of Sample during the design run. Produces the Wilcoxon test statistic

LAIMGP offers extremely high-speed evolutionary computing at the machine level

DAS™ allows for intra-run design parameter adjustments allowing real time adjustments evaluation

EVORUN™ allows for evaluation of different preprocessors, trade types and fitness functions

Hyperthreaded and multi-instance allowing dozens of simultaneous running engines.

pricing information at: www.tradingsystemlab.com

Evaluate your Trading Strategies – We are able to generate a performance report / backtest your trading strategies

22+ Years of historical data.

Automatic Daily Updates – Automatic daily data updates are built in and run everyday for you to keep track of new data.

No Coding Required – You don’t have to learn how to code to use our platform, you get the data in spreadsheets.

All Data-Sets – Technicals, fundamentals, SEC filings, technical indicators, earnings, corporate actions, splits, etc’.

Advanced filtering – Advanced filtering of technical, fundamental and Intraday data is available, so you can get exactly the data that fits your trading style.

Personal/Retail:

Monthly subscription model with a free tier option. paid packages are $79, $149 and $189 per month

Institutions/Funds:

Contact for Custom requests, pricing and strategy analysis

The world’s only pure quantitative analytics platform for sports markets

Globally patented technology/products

Customizable pattern recognition screeners/e-mail alerts

Virtual currency module

Easy to use interface for price (“spread”), volatility (“totals”) and probability Delta % (“moneyline”)

1 week trial, then 30$/month

Code-free: 100% interactive for rapid backtesting and real-time market analysis

Intraday: Focused on intraday and short term strategies

Intuitive: Powerful point and click interface produces results instantly

Time-saving libraries: 1,000’s of pre-coded filters and market biases

Market Profile®: Many precoded patterns using market profiles for you to test

Strategy and alert-management: Manage your custom library of strategies and alerts

Cloud-based: No software to download or maintain

price on request at sales@investiquant.com

Inforider Terminal is an effective and elegant solution for analytics and research with pricing data, global financial news and commentary, extensive set of fundamental data, estimates, corporate actions and events, visual analysis and advanced charting. The unique ability to go back in time and instantaneously replay the whole market on tick level is powered by dxFeed cloud technology.

price on request at sales@dxfeed.com

An educational tool made for rookies and experts

Any Trading Day from the last 2 years can be replayed without risking a single penny

free 7-day trial

$25 – $79 Monthly

Provides many years of intraday and end of day historical data.

Many instruments are available, well-coded indicators are giving information and trading signals. Any indicator is customizable to fit customer needs.

All trading strategies provided are lead by probability tests.

from free indicators to $36 per indicator

Allows you to build portfolio’s of securities (stock, ETF, mutual fund), apply different rebalancing algorithms and review historical performance.

It is easy to use and very inexpensive. Plus the developer is very willing to make enhancements.

free

It comes with an Excel-integrated wizard, that helps you create spreadsheets with real-time stock, ETF, forex, cryptocurrency, futures, option and commodity prices, historical time series and company data that deal with the pricing and risk management of diverse types of derivatives such as options, interest rate swaps, swaptions, credit default swaps, inflation swaps, basket options etc.

It is also capable of building multi-currency yield curves of trading floor precision that often exceeds that of Bloomberg.

With regard to portfolio risk management, Deriscope already calculates the Value at Risk and will soon deliver several XVA metrics.

Finally, if integration with a company’s other processing systems is desired, Deriscope may be accessed without Excel’s intervention through xml-based data exchange.

variable

$9.50 – $219 Monthly

$105 – $2 408 Annually

Discover your next options trade.

Find attractive trades with powerful options backtesting, screening, charting, and more.

Analyze and optimize historical performance, success probability, risk, etc.

Backtest most options trades over fifteen years of data.

Supports virtually any options strategy across U.S. stocks, global currencies, and commodities markets

free 5 day trial

$29 – $39 Monthly

Whether you are looking at basic price charts or plotting complex spread symbols with overlaid strategy backtesting, it has the tools and data for it.

TradingView is an active social network for traders and investors.

Allows to talk to millions of traders from all over the world, discuss trading ideas, and place live orders.

Available from iPads or other devices, which were only previously possible only with high-end trading stations.

free trial

$14.95 – $59.95 Monthly

$155.40 – $599.40 Annually

Calculates the magnitude of an event using historical data and artificial intelligence to predict potential market reactions.

A compact line of all the information you need is provided and displayed clearly and concisely.

Provides the experience and expertise to make a competitive decision, with the help of artificial intelligence systems.

Free 7 day trial

$49 – $129 Monthly

$468 – $828 Annually

Sierra Chart supports Live and Simulated trading. Both manual and automated trading is supported.

Sierra Chart is a complete Real-time and Historical, Charting and Technical Analysis platform with very powerful analytics for the financial markets.

Sierra Chart provides optional high-quality direct Real-Time Exchange Market Data Feeds covering US, Europe, Asia, Canada Futures exchanges, and US, Europe, Canada Stock exchanges, and US Cash Indices.

Sierra Chart directly provides Historical Daily and detailed Intraday data for stocks, forex, futures and indexes without having to use an external service.

Sierra Chart supports many external Data and Trading services providing complete real-time and historical data and trading access to global futures, stocks, indexes, forex and options markets. All of the major Data services and Trading backends are supported.

$26 – $36 Monthly

$218.40 – $302.40 Annually

Detailed trading strategy test report (PDF) which includes:

Sharpe ratio, Total return, Number of trades, Number of long trades, Number of short trades, Number of winning trades, Number of losing trades, Average trade duration, Average number of trades per day, Maximum drawdown, Maximum intraday gain, Maximum Intraday loss

price on request at http://stockstrategytest.com/test-your-strategy/

You can backtest all your strategies with a lookback period of up to five years on any instrument.

With Streak’s cloud-based technology, you can access all your strategies anytime, anywhere.

Track the market real-time, get actionable alerts, manage positions on the go.

Free 7 day trial

$6.67 – $18.67 Monthly

$56.04 – $156.84 Annually

Backtesting lets you look at your strategies on chronicled information to decide how well it would have worked within the past. In case you’ve got created a technique with which you’re prepared to go live, the Backtesting highlight will assist you in getting it in the event that your strategies are reasonable and possibly effective.

price on request at https://www.stockmock.in/#!/

Provides models for a wide range of financial instruments including derivatives

Provides market data across five key asset classes: equity, FX, rates, commodity and volatility.

All data are cleaned, validated, normalised and ready to go.

demo version available at https://www.sigtech.com/contact?to=siglab

or price on request at hello@sigtech.com

Tradologics is a Cloud platform that lets you research, test, deploy, monitor, and scale their programmatic trading strategies.

Offers numerous tools and services aimed to solve every part of the trader’s business cycle.

Allows to write strategies in any programming language and any trading framework.

Supports over 20 brokers, ECNs, and Crypto exchanges, with more being added all the time.

The same goes for trading tools and frameworks.

Access historical and real-time market data for Stocks and ETFs from over 60 global exchanges – as well as Forex & Cryptocurrency from multiple exchanges.

Early access at https://tradologics.com

White Paper with Corresponding CloudQuant Source Code

Write sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies in Python.

Replay years of US equities trading utilizing high resolution tick-level data.

Users’ python code can interact with any market event- trades, news, halts, altdata, order handling, account handling, and many more.

Stats are automatically generated for every backtest and detailed statistical reports available on demand.

Users data storage area allows incorporation of own data into algorithms on CQ Mariner.

Enables users to efficiently test drive Alternative Data into their investing blueprint.

All information available at https://info.cloudquant.com/contact/

equities, futures, FX, and options

US and global market and fundamental data from multiple data providers

end-of-day or intraday strategies

multiple backtesters including Zipline (an event-driven backtester) and Moonshot (a vectorized backtester)

multiple brokers supported, plus FIX adapter

runs locally or in the cloud

Pricing available at https://www.quantrocket.com/pricing

Quickly create your strategies without any programming necessary and backtest them on real data.

currently free

Simply fill in a form specifying your backtest details

Create signals using both technical and fundamental data from 2006 onwards

Backtest your prefered investment strategy (Relative Strength, Fundamentals, Moving Average and Strategic Allocation)

Performance analysis is a breeze with our clean and beautiful user interface

Extensive coverage of instruments (stocks, ETFs, FX and Crypto) across multiple exchanges

Allows you to go live and profit from your investment strategy where you will receive daily email updates about any live orders.

Premium:

30 day free trial

$15 per month

Run unlimited backtests

Backtest positions and performance in real time

Go live and profit from your investment strategy

Starter:

Free for you to try

Maximum 3 backtests per day

Backtest positions and performance data delayed by a year

Only for research with no option to go live with your investment strategy

Fully flexible, asset class or trading style agnostic, institutional grade

Simple APIs- develop strategies in Python, or use our visual programming interface

Equities and FX minute-level data for more than 10 years for backtesting

A large (and growing) repository of sample strategies

Currently free

We connect data scientists with investment managers.

Thousands of quantitative researchers can build strategies, gain valuable experience and compete in the largest global online competitions to find the best finance solutions for our sponsors, get their strategies licensed and earn fees.

Investment managers can set up competitions, transform ideas into implementable solutions and explore investable indices to match their investment needs.

Free for our community of researchers.

For investment managers, price on request at francois@alphie n.com​ for Europe and phdamay@alphi en.com​ for Asia

TradersToy’s Stock Market Replay is a free tool that allows you to replay any ticker on the Nasdaq down to 1 minute resolution. Control the charts just like you would a VCR – with rewind, pause, play and fast forward buttons. You can also simulate trades by opening or shorting a stock and watch your P&L change in real-time.

free

Web-based and API based backtesting platforms

Standard options strategy templates and the ability to combine strategies

Optimized strategies available

Input DTE, delta, strike width, triggers, and price percentages to set a strategy.

Exit based on profit, delta, days, strike width percent.

Triggers based on volatilities and technical to time entry and exit

Integrated with scanning, paper trading, and portfolio risk management

From $99 per month

Quants

Stop wasting time supporting non techy colleagues with VBA macros.

Share and open the power of your code to all from your preferred programing language (Python, R, C++,Rust, Matlab….)

Enjoy a zero deployment & versioning environment that will boost your team efficiency.

APIs providers

Make your data accessible to all in a flexible way even to non-technical people via Excel.

Your data is available in the most user friendly and simple possible way.

Excel users

Consume APIs data and augment your spreadsheets with zero lines of code.

Leverage code and functions from outside Excel without Quants’ support.

Monthly subscription: 10 EUR/month, 30 days trial period without credit card needed, then 10 EUR monthly paid.

Yearly subscription: 99 EUR/year, 30 days trial period without credit card needed, then 99 EUR yearly paid.

Access to global market data and news, market screener, calendar for economic events and company earnings reports, integrated rss-feed reader, high-performance charting and technical analysis.

Support for portfolio construction and backtesting, quantitative performance and risk analysis of the portfolio and its components. Visualization of risk metrics and the efficient frontier. Calculation of investment risk indicators and analysis of stress events, drawdowns and value-at-risk. Valuation of sector allocation, correlations and decomposition of portfolio risk. Optimization of the portfolio with predefined mean-variance strategies.

Analysis of fundamental and quantitative asset characteristics. Calculation of group descriptive statistics for single assets or a portfolio. Statistical visualization and hypothesis testing for unit roots and Granger causality. Correlation, cointegration, principal component and regression analysis.

currently free