Trading Blox™ was founded by Professional traders and software developers with a mission to develop a world-class trading simulation platform for serious traders. The company is focused on giving traders the tools necessary to build robust trading systems and have confidence going forward into real trading.

We help others understand how trading systems work, in depth, in real-world conditions.

Software that is — By traders, For traders — that is our motto.

The Mission

Trading Blox™ is a software platform on which you can run Commercial Systems, public domain systems, or develop your own system. It will help you backtest the system through a comprehensive set of simulations, including stepping the start date and duration of the test, changing the portfolio composition, commission/slippage/equity considerations, and any other user adjustable parameters your system contains.

Our Trading Blox™ software allows you to thoroughly examine the performance of trading systems under a variety of different market conditions so you can better understand the performance characteristics of a trading system before you begin trading. The end result is a Robust system, with which you can have confidence!

If the system is Robust, the simulation results will reflect this. These good results will also give you the confidence to consistently apply the rules of your automated strategy during adverse market conditions. If your system is not Robust, you have the opportunity to improve it before putting your money on the line.

Our Approach

We do not sell trading systems. None of our principals has an interest in the sale of any trading system or methodology. Further, the Trading Blox™ testing output is sufficiently detailed that you can completely verify any of the results. This makes us the authoritative source for unbiased testing results.

We follow a four-part philosophy for automated trading strategy testing:

Real-World Simulation - all tests are run using only the information that would be available to an actual trader. The testing should account for each of factors that affect real-world performance.

Flexible Parameters - all of the computational components of a trading strategy are rigorously tested across many different values to ensure that the test results do not reflect curve fitting.

Verification Tools - all tests include sufficient detail to enable the trader to independently verify the validity of the testing harness and the simulated trading results.

Independent Validation - whenever possible the designers and originators of the trading system are be given adequate opportunity to review the work of the simulation programmers to ensure that the test reflects the system as designed.

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Our Products

We sell testing simulation and order generation software for popular automated trading systems as well as custom systems built using the robust Trading Blox™ technology.

We have three great products for the needs of every trader:

1) Trading Blox™ Turtle -- an excellent starting platform. Includes three great systems (Turtle, Triple Moving Average, and Donchian), plus all the bells and whistles of our high end backtesting and order generation software. Test Futures, Forex, and Stocks with historical accuracy. Step thousands of parameter combinations in record time. Detailed trade by trade reports, as well as summary results. Generate orders when you are ready to trade. Just $995.

2) Trading Blox™ Professional -- Everything listed above, plus eight more great systems (ADX, +DI/-DI, ATR Channel Breakout, Bollinger Breakout, Bollinger Counter Trend, Dual Moving Average, MACD, RSI, Stochastic) and lots of extra blocks (Strength Filter, MACD Filter, Group Risk Manager, Profit Target, Pyramiding, Gap Open Against, Chandelier, Fixed Fractional and Volatility Money Manager). Drag and drop Portfolio Managers, Entry/Exit Managers, Money Managers, and Risk Managers to create your own custom system. No programming required. Just $1995.

3) Trading Blox™ Builder -- Everything listed above, plus the ability to create new blox. Using our Blox Basic programming language, you can create the most sophisticated strategy imaginable. Just $2990.

Upgrade at any time from one edition to the next automatically on the website for the difference in cost. Start with the Turtle or Professional edition and upgrade when you feel comfortable with the process. The Builder and Professional Editions can use End of Day (EOD) or Intraday data (down to 1 minute bars), while the Turtle Edition can only use EOD data. The Builder and Professional Editions are available as native x64 applications, and all Editions will work with XP, Vista, or a Intel based Macintosh running Bootcamp or Parallels. For normal testing, the computer requirements are quite modest, such as 1 GHZ processor and 1 GB memory. Super large stock tests will require more memory.

Trading Blox can test on any amount of data -- customer typically use between 10 and 40 years of data to properly backtest a strategy. While we are not a data provider and do not provide data for trading, we have many suggestions on the data partners section of the website depending on the markets you are trading. We do include some sample data for training purposes: over 10 years of sample historical data for more than 30 futures markets, 15 forex pairs, and 100 stocks. This data is courtesy of CSI. Click here to access free sample historical data. The futures and forex data is updated daily, while the stock data is not. There is no real time connection between Trading Blox and any brokers. Customer are free to use any broker as desired -- the Trading Blox Order Report can be emailed to the broker, or uploaded to an order processing system.

Check out our Products section to find out more about the Trading Blox™ Technology and how you can use Trading Blox™ to learn more about automated strategy testing. Click here for an edition comparison matrix.

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