SimpleTradingSimulator

SimpleTradingSimulator is a Forex trading simulator for manually testing trading strategies and analysing results.

The application allows stepping through a market at any speed allowing trades to be simulated across many years of data very quickly. It currently has 20 markets each with around 10 years of data from FXCM built in, hence the large size of the download.

Installation

1. Download latest version from: https://github.com/Hallupa/SimpleTradingSimulator/releases

2. Run 'TradingSimulatorInstaller.msi' which will install the application along with shortcuts on the desktop and start menu

How to use

After starting the application there will be a random chart from one of 20 markets at a random point in time.

The chart on the left shows day candles, on the right are 2 hour or 4 hour candles. Clicking 'next candle' or pressing Control-F will progress one candle forward. Clicking 'New chart' will select another random market and time.

Setting up a trade

Clicking 'long trade' or 'short trade' will add a new trade in the trades window. Every trade has to have a stop so the trade can calculate a risk to reward ratio.

Set stop

Select the new trade, click 'Set stop' then click a point on the chart for the stop.

Set limit (optional)

If wanted, click 'Set limit' and click a point on the chart for the limit.

Market price

If no order price has been set, when time is progressed the trade will automatically start at market price.

Entry price

To set the entry price, click 'Set entry price' then select a point on the chart. When progressing through the candles, if the entry price is hit the trade will start.

Editing the trade

When a trade is active selecting the trade then clicking the toolbar option 'Set stop', 'Set limit' or 'Set stop' will then allow selecting a point on the chart.

Results

In the Results section analysis is shown of the trades, such as average return in in risk to reward ratios, or R, and shows statistics such as % trades that made a positve R, expectancy, etc.

Building the source code

Visual Studio 2017 or later is required

Building the application

To build the application:

1. Install Expression Blend SDK from https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=10801
2. Install SciChart 3.5.0.7128 from https://www.scichart.com/Downloads/v3.5/SciChart_v3.5.7128_Installer.zip
3. Load Visual Studio .NET 2017
4. Select x86 build configuration
5. Build

Building the installer

To build the installer, Installer Project extension must be installed. This can be done by:

1 Load Visual Studio .NET 2017 2 Click on "Tools" -> Extension and Updates -> Online 3 Type "Installer Project" on the search box 4 Click on "Install" in Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project 5 Restart Visual Studio .NET and follow the instructions to install the extension

Or by downloading via marketplace.visualstudio.com

Once installed the installer should build

License

This library is release under GNU General Public License v3.0.

Copyright (c) 2019 Oliver Wickenden

https://github.com/Hallupa/TraderSimulator/blob/master/LICENSE