Trading Performance Analyzer (TrdPerfAna)
                   
(Professional Software Solutions)

The "Trading Performance Analyzer" module assists you in
analyzing in depth your trading performance of:
- Your actual trading records (Instructions how to import from TradeStation)
- Strategy backtesting results (Instructions how to import your strategy backtesting results).
- Manually add/modify/delete your positions (Instructions how use the Position Manager)
- Custom Trading Records import (Instructions how to import from custom Trading Records)
Click here for an Equity Screen Sample and Performance Comparison Screen Sample.

The "Trading Performance Analyzer" assist you with the following functions:

1 Intuitive Equity Chart  with:
- Equity Bollinger Bands (orange graph) - StdDev etc can be configured
- Medium Equity (dotted blue line)
- Volatility reference line for volatility calculation (thick straight blue line)
- intuitive tracking of new and highest Equity highs/lows (big triangle)
- intuitive tracking of max DrawDown/DrawUp
- mouse tracking showing details of each trade
2. Analyze your Performance grouped any of the following criteria 
- Direction (Long/Short)
- Symbols/Markets
- Time of Day buckets (15 Min Interval - can be configured to for example 60 minutes, creating hourly buckets)
- Weekdays (Monday, Tuesday etc) - Example below:

- Year, Month, Days
- Strategy Exit Labels or Accounts (LiveTrading)
- Monte Carlo Performance Analysis
3. Detailed Statistical Analysis of your Performance calculating more than 50 parameter
separated in three columns: All, Long and short positions.
4. Filter out current Positions based on many criterias  
This functions allows you to "zoom in" to custom sub sets you specify;
then you can analyze the subset and also save the new selection as a new file.
To start the filter: Click on File/Filter or click on in the Toolbar.

In this example we select the following Positions:
- Entry date between Oct 1st, 2004 and Nov 31st, 2004
- Only symbol @EC, @BP
- Entry time of day between 10:00 and 12:00
- Only Wednsday and Thursday trades
To undo all filter click on the "Undo Filter/Relaod" button 

Filter out overlapping Positions

You can even filter out overlapping positions from a reference set.
Just click on the "Filter out Overlapping Positions" button and select your reference position file.
Then you receive automatically a detailed spreadsheet and the overlapping positions filtered out
5. Now you can also Merge several Strategy Backtesting Results from different Markets
into ONE single continuous Performance Report.
Click on File/Merge or the in the Toolbar and select the file to merge into the current set.- OR - 
You can also drag-and-drop one (or several files) into the current set to merge.
Click here for instructions on how to save Live Trading or Strategy backtesting results.
6. Generates a comprehensive Analysis Overview
with all performance details for all the various groups.
Click on File/Overview or on the in the Toolbar
and automatically a new web page is generated for you, you can then print, save or share.
7. Displays comprehensive trade list sorted by date for each of the many groups and sub sections:
In this example we show onlythe Tuesday Positions:
8. Configure your preferences:

The following elements can be configured:
Time of Day Interval Here you can change the default TimeOfDay interval (default 15 Minutes)
For example 60 minutes compares the performance grouped by the hour
Compare Value Here you also define the statistical parameter to be used
when you compare the various group totals.
Root Join Future contracts change every quarter, creating new/separate symbols;
this function allows you to "join" all the different contract for the same
root symbol into ONE continuous symbol:
Example: ECH05, ECZ04 etc is joined to @EC
(Note that the original data is not changed unless you save and overwrite the original file!)
Bollinger Settings Here you define the Bollinger settings:
StdDev(2.0) Standard Deviations (Default is 2.0)
Avg(10) Moving Average (Deafult 10 points) 0 will disable the bollinger feature
Width(1) Thickness in pixels of the bollinger band
Startup Equity Defines the initial Equity - used to calculate the RateOfReturn, Drawdown Percent etc
9. The Zoom in feature allows you to magnify a particular date range
a) left click to the left starting point in the chart and keep the left mouse button clicked
b) move to the right ending point in the chart and let go of the mouse button
c) the selected area will now be displayed
d) To "unZoom" - select only less than 3 points as described above
10. By default only days with at least one position are listed in the "Days" section.
With the "Fill in missing Trading Days" function you can add all the days without
any trading, so that you can then get a complete calendar equity graph, also showing the "days off":
 11. Custom Trading Records import (Instructions how to import from custom Trading Records)
   


Screen Sample1 (Main Equity Chart)

This chart shows your Equity graph of all positions in date sequence:

 

Screen Sample (Performance Comparison)
This chart shows the comparison of the performance of positions grouped by weekdays,
indicating in this example a weak Friday performance. In this sample the "Profit Factor(Gross)"
has been used, choose from over 20 other statistical parameters:


The following statistical parameter are available for performance comparison:

1. Profit Factor (Gross)
2. Avgerage Trade Amount
3. Avgerage Winner Amount
4. Avgerage Looser Amount
5. Profit Factor (AvgTrd)
6. Maximum Winner Amount
7. Maximum Looser Amount
8. Median Trade Amount
9. Median Winner Amount
10. Median Looser Amount
11. Profit Factor (Median)
12. Probability
13. Average Trade Duration (Minutes)
14. Average Winner Duration (Minutes)
15. Average Looser Duration (Minutes)
16. Longest Trade Duration (Minutes)"
17. Shortest Trade Duration (Minutes)
18. Std Deviation Trade Amount
19. Std Deviation Winner Amount
20. Std Deviation Looser Amount
21. Std Deviation Trade Percent
22. Std Deviation Winner Percent
23. Std Deviation Looser Percent
   
   

Screen Sample (Statistical Analysis)
Below you can see a sample of our detailed statistical analysis:

 

 

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