Customer Testimonials

I am an extremely satisfied Trading Blox user. I've been using your modeling tool since inception with Veritrader. The ability to model my systems and then have my broker execute those trades in a mechanical fashion, has done wonders for my bank balance. The support from you and your team is fantastic and the additional reading on the forum has given me some great ideas to model and test. I haven't used any other testing platform, only sample downloads. None of those samples have shown enough functionality for me to even consider moving. Trading Blox gives me the confidence to mechanically trade my systems. Without that confidence, I no doubt would still be researching and reviewing and NOT actually trading. My trading has been profitable every year since I started in 2001, so I cannot complain.

I did my home work and this is by far the best software to test a strategy on multiple markets. I'm very pleased with it and is an indispensable tool for me as a CTA thanks so much and keep up the good work, also the support was great thanks again.

A strong, responsive team of developers and a vibrant, knowledgeable and demanding community of users have combined to create an outstanding product. The flexibility and split second speed allow me to develop and thoroughly test ideas in days and weeks rather than weeks and months. In short, I believe that Trading Blox is an important tool for anyone interested in creating robust systematic trading strategies.

The product is excellent as is the forum and customer service. The only thing I see is that you are selling this excellent product too cheap. I would have paid double the price and still thought I stole it.

TBB is one of my favorite pieces of software and I am definitely happy/satisfied with it.

I don't know of any better platform for backtesting mechanical trading systems with futures and I have a hard time to think that there is a much better one out there. The support is world class: Extremely fast, very helpful, very detailed answers and ... even on weekends !!! Compared to other backtesting platforms I have used TB is extremely fast and has functionality which is unmatched by other platforms I know (multi-systems, multi-currencies, flexible parameter entries).

Trading Blox is a superior system testing and development platform which has been very well received by our clients. I would highly recommend it to anyone that is serious about backtesting their ideas in the most realistic environment possible.

Conclusion: Trading Blox Builder is one of the best back testing software products available and satisfied in every way during the test period. It is one of the few products offering a total back testing solution that can be used easily by those with absolutely no programming experience. The System Reports are very detailed and deliver not only important system information, but also extensive monthly and yearly performance data. By displaying individual trades in a chart users gain a comprehensive look at a systems characteristics in an easy to understand format. The product’s relatively high price makes it more suitable for professional and larger private investors. However, anyone looking to gain insight into system trading and testing should utilize the test version and eventually consider the entry level product when the time is right.

I have been delighted with all aspects of the product and service. Trading Blox is easy to set up and intuitive to use. It has buttons and switches and dials for almost every different aspect of the craft, which can be tuned and set and fiddled with to your heart’s content. By carefully sifting through the output of many different tests, using many different systems and settings you develop a feel for trend following and the markets themselves, which is enhanced as you trade, day by day.

The built in generic systems provide an solid base. Many will need to go no further. You can make use of the enormously powerful parameter stepping facility to experiment with many different variations of a given system on a single future or on a basket of any size. In a single swift test for instance, you can try many different combinations of a dual moving average crossover system, using (by way of example) from 10 to 100 days for the short moving average and 50 to 300 days for the long moving average. Add in any other stepped parameter to this or any other test: position sizing from 1% to 10 % by 1% steps for instance, closed versus open equity as your bet size base, different stepped slippage or commission assumptions – the possibilities are endless. You can combine many different built in systems, each with a separate portfolio and different money management rules and run a test to see the effects of trading the complex combination out of one account.

You need not write a line of code to gain a deep understanding of trend following. But those with an enquiring mind will want to buy the programmable version and probe further. To look at different trading methods, to code systems they read about in technical publications and books, to design their own indicators and algorithms. And those who do follow this path will find the “building Blox” method simple to grasp, especially since they will have the code from the built in systems as examples to work from and a detailed and well written manual.

Buyers also benefit from the users forum and quick response from Tim Arnold and his team when they need help. There are a number of experienced traders on the forum who have contributed detailed posts on many aspects of system design and trading and who often step in to help answer new users’ questions. The trading Blox team has been swift to respond to user requests for help and are constantly bringing on enhancements to an already very impressive product.

First off let me congratulate you on Trading Blox Builder, its an excellent product. I'm really astounded at the potential of it.

Trading Blox has been far easier to program or test than TradeStation and I think far more functional. It's also nice having a bunch of complete systems right out of the box compared to TS's indicators and paintbars.
I'm 110% satisfied with the product and I look at the purchase price as the cheapest stop loss I ever spent.

I am happy with Trading Blox. It is fast and is a very valuable tool for backtesting trading systems & portfolio combinations.

Downloaded the trial version...it's the Ferrari of backtesting software!!! So logical to use it's silly.

"One of the few things I missed while on vacation was Trading Blox. It’s good to be back home."

I purchased Trading Blox Builder a few weeks ago after going through an on line demo. I was up and running in no time.

The specs on many of the products I trade in South Africa are rather peculiar. They were able to design me a futures file that worked on my specific products. The tests seem incredibly accurate.

I think you have to have tested and traded quite a bit too fully appreciate what TB offers. It really allows you to test every aspect of a system and to become familiar with various money management principles. It used to take me hours to try and work out the effect of a change in risk where as now it takes a few seconds. It’s led me to make some pretty drastic (risk) changes to my model already.

In retrospect I am fairly pleased I had the custom data issues, it gave TB a chance to show their true colours and I am very comfortable with my purchase knowing the kind of guys that developed it.

The programme is incredibly powerful and I believe that if you are serious about trading then TB will be a great addition to your trading arsenal.

I've used TBB for a couple of months and here are my initial thoughts. Overall TBB is a very solid program. Its developer's backgrounds are from managed money and this is why you see such in depth portfolio performance metrics. The TBB concept (building blocks) helps the programmer streamline his/her ideas and speeds development and also gets the programmer into thinking about the very important area of money management. Most software packages concern themselves with the development of an entry/exit algorithm and provides limited tools to applying capital allocation models. This is the true strength of the software. Once you develop a good trading algorithm you have unlimited tools to enhance it through the application of money management.

The thing I like best about Trading Blox is the ease of use and excellent support. The customer support team is very responsive, patient, and friendly to deal with. The product is way ahead of the rest of the market for someone like me with no computer code writing skills. Trading Blox offers sobering results as opposed to other software companies that offer mind boggling over optimized unrealistic results.

The following are customer testimonials for VeriTrader. The newest version of VeriTrader is the Trading Blox Professional edition, which has all the features and functions of VeriTrader and more.

I just started using Veritrader this weekend and I must say it is a great program. I'm genuinely awed by it and I usually don't use the word "awed" often when it comes to software. Fast and easy-to-use, Veritrader within minutes taught me more about trading than I’ve learned in years. It’s hard to imagine how you could purchase Veritrader and not become a better trader. Although I've yet to master all its power, I can confidently tell you that it has already saved me far more money than what I paid for it.

In a word 'WOW'.
I was pretty impressed with the demo, but VeriTrader is just unbelievable!. Quite simply no other software product that I have seen even comes close to offering the same level of flexibility and sophistication, and certainly nothing else I have found is capable of testing and managing a full-blown trading system such as The Turtle Rules".

Now I can put aside my own software development and concentrate solely on my trading system development.

In spite of being so damn powerful, it still seems so intuitive and straightforward to use...it's a bit like trading up from a Model T Ford and stepping into the latest Masserati coupe. I just love it!

I just want to say this program truly rocks!I can't tell you how many hours I have spent trying to program a system using TS or excel only to find it's not calculating some portion of some equation correctly or to find out from support there is no way to program that using "easy language" so I'm back to the drawing board doing it all again. VT is light years ahead of TS. Easy interfaces and optimization methods and it's fast! And I can see real results I know are accurate. Really well done!

VeriTrader is the tool I've been dreaming of having for a *long* time. After spending just a few short months with VeriTrader, I know that I've made a major leap forward. The interface is clean and intuitive. The documentation is comprehensive, polished and most importantly, readable. I've been able to fire up VT and within minutes of installing the sample historical data have been able to rapidly run hundreds of different tests. Before even reading the manual I was able to quickly see how in a given trading system, profitability and drawdown could be dramatically impacted by very slight tweaks to the rules. VeriTrader allows me to ask virtually any "what if" question about trading system design, and see detailed answers in seconds.

My passion for trading system development started with my exposure to TradeStation2000i. However, I rapidly discovered that it was incredibly limited in many ways. Although programming in "EasyLanguage" really was "easy," the biggest limitation in TS2000i was the built-in assumption that I would only be trading one system, on one market at any given point in time. This would make some sense if I was a single market daytrader, but absolutely no sense at all for someone interested in the long-term trading of a "basket" of markets. I tried for many months to build a rudimentary trading system in Excel until I ran into my own limitations as a non-programmer.

After months of frustration, I was exposed to Trading Recipes. This was a major step forward because here was a package that seemed designed for handling things like pyramiding, and simultaneous multi-market/multi-system trading. However, TR turned out to be anything but intuitive. The user manuals and other documentation were rather antiquated, not to mention the clunky DOS interface and seemingly unstable behavior while trading "live." With TR I ended up having to hire expensive outside consultants just to keep my head above water.

After receiving Veritrader and running the application through several tests, I came to realize that someone beat me to the punch in developing the system trading tool of all trading tools….but seriously as an application programmer myself, I felt that Veritrader addresses all the needs required to back test trading strategies ... such as changing parameters from stops to entry points and exits points, and producing a comprehensive report and a viewable trading summary. Whether you’re a programmer or novice trader you’ll appreciate how powerful yet flexible this application can be. ... I am happy to say I would not trade any market without utilizing Veritrader first.

I would like to thank the VeriTrader team for providing what can only be described as an outstanding piece of software. I am highly impressed by the meticulous attention to detail that has gone into the design of VeriTrader. The software is simple and easy to use, yet the insights that I have gained from testing have been extensive. VeriTrader has proven itself to be an excellent learning tool, and I highly recommend the programme to anyone that is looking to take their trading skills and knowledge to the next level.

First of all let me say, this program is amazing. Its a dream come true for someone who has < 0 programming ability. If you know how to turn on a computer....you know how to use this program. Before this product, I envisioned years of struggling with learning programming just to do what I did in the first 10 minutes with this program. Ten minutes with this program and I have already learned so much about what works and what doesn't that I am actually giddy. What an eye opening experience. Thank you for creating a product that a person with ideas but no programming ability can use. A world of possibility has just opened up ...Thanks again and best of luck with the software and your company...